children of heaven

no.133 Children of Heaven

This film made me feel so warm and fuzzy. I thought we were poor, but at least we owned more than one pair of shoes and didn't have to share. It's amazing how poverty can breed a level of un-selfishness that we, the middle class, cannot imagine. Although Zahra finds her shoes, she does not try to take them back. Although she needs her own shoes, she doesn't want to get her brother into trouble or push the family's rent back another month.

I know I'm not the only one who cried when Ali won the race, rather than coming in third. The pain on his face, feeling that he let his sister down, was so real.