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Movie title: The Color of Paradise Original title: Rang-e Khoda Release year: 1999 Director: Majid Majidi I am sitting on a tool on the rooftop of my house. It’s late afternoon, the sky is partly cloudy, partly clear, after a rain-shower. A cool breeze is waving through which is very much welcome after a hot and humid day. The mahogany tree leaves are bustling in the breeze, the moringa tree in the West side looks even prettier as the rain drops sparkle on it. Four-five different birds can be heard from my tool. I ask myself… am I a person who can see love, who can see grace? For one day, the human in me cries out, the senses in me sharpens—the effect after watching a film by Majidi. This is the third film by Majidi that I watched. Color of Paradise, the title even evokes a sense of grace… The movie starts at a boarding school for blind kids. It’s the start of the holiday season. Parents taking their kids home. Mothers hugging their boys. The boys who can sense their dear ones throu...