I watched another Majid Majidi film, and I liked his previous films. This is "Song of Nightingales" ("Sparrow Song") / Avaze gonjeshk-ha, 2008. Not very young man Karim lives with his family, he has a wife and three children – a teenage daughter is in school, she is deaf, there is still a younger son and a small daughter, apparently, married late. He works on an ostrich farm. And once his eldest daughter accidentally drops his hearing aid into the water, it seems that it makes no sense to repair it, and it is expensive, it is even more expensive to purchase a new hearing aid, because there is no medical insurance. Yes, there is still such trouble - driving ostriches from one pen to another, they forgot to close the door of the fence, and one ostrich escaped. They start searching for him, first several people, as a result, Karim is looking for him alone, touring the surrounding area, but never finds him, considering him to be responsible for the escape of the ostrich, he is kicked out of work. Going to Tehran with a hearing aid, he accidentally becomes a taxi driver, for whom he is mistaken there, there are many such taxi drivers on motorcycles. He thinks it's lucky and starts making money, even if it's not bad. At the same time, he begins to bring home all sorts of discarded building materials and small equipment from the construction site. He almost forgets about the hearing aid, although sometimes he seems to remember. Unbeknownst to himself, but not to others, he himself begins to change, becomes more aggressive, enters into clashes with family members, primarily with his son, who himself is trying to earn some money, dreaming of breeding goldfish and becoming a millionaire. Karim has severely suppressed his attempts. But one day there is a misfortune - Karim is hit by this construction junk, he has injuries and a broken leg. My son is now the breadwinner of the family. As a result of all these events, Karim returns to himself as he once was, and then the ostrich returns to the farm. So the end seems to be good. The film was shot in a typical manner for Majidi, I watched with interest, I liked the film, but I will not recommend it to everyone.
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