Where Is The Friends House Directed By Abbas Kiarostami

The film Where is the Friends House by Abbas Kiarostami is a film about goodness and innocence in the face of danger and challenges. Ahmad is a schoolboy who accidentally takes his friend Mohammads school book home with him. Mohammad is already in trouble for not doing his work, and if he fails to do it one more time he will be expelled. Ahmad spends all day looking for his friend so that he can give him his book, but he never finds his house so instead he stays up at night doing the work for his friend, and the next day at school he gives Mohammad his book and the work passes the teachers inspection. The story is so simple yet so elegantly told that the subject is seen to have great importance not because it is a grand subject of great importance but because it is important to these boys. We see the world through their eyes and for the course of a day we see what it means to be truly giving of selfeven if the stakes are probably not as high as they...

It is a fantastic dramatization of a simple matter that to children takes on larger than life consequencesand that sense of a thing having larger than life consequences is...…attention on the boy, who is often at the center of the frame.

Finally, the story and the dramatization of the action are really the heart of the film. They serve as the main pillars: the story is simple but it is full of tension and the tension mounts as the boy discovers the mistake and then sets about trying to right the mistake. All the way up to the climax and the final resolution which is the very last shot of the film, the viewer is really on the edge of his seatand there is no need for big car chases or action. We are so engrossed in the drama of this notebook that we are hoping with the…