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zed due to race and religion. In so doing he provides a perspective that is based on his experiences as a struggling Iranian working to help his family survive after the death of his father. Majidi’s films have won numerous prizes and attempt to make viewers reconsider the nature of their perceptions and prejudices. As Majidi says of his film Baran, “It is a tale of affection, altruism, sacrifice, and love—a love that knows no borders. Love can conquer all borders. Let’s dream of a day when the world is ruled by love, not war” (Baran 2). By possessing such an attitude, Majidi tries to break through the walls that keep us from perceiving others and the world in the “infinite” manner Blake argued was possible centuries ago. From prejudice to the unnecessary deaths of thousands of Afghanis, Majidi strives to poke a stick at our perceptions and prejudices in order to provide a new understanding of others that is deeper and lends and often voiceless, marginalized population a voice. As Majidi says of his empathy for Afghani refugees killed trying to feel into Iran, “I became even more aware that these people had no voice, they were just dying on the road and no one was caring about that” (Tse 2).

In The Color of Paradise we are provided with a tale of a blind eight-year old boy who is completely attuned to nature despite lacking vision. In Oedipus, it is often said Oedipus must blind himself before he can see. In Majidi’s film the message seems to be that in an age of socially constructed perceptions one must be blind before they can see. For Mohammad does not see ugly, he does not see race, and he does not see color or material beauty like the others about him. Instead, he is so attuned to nature that the color of paradise is seeing the joy of God’s world without perceptions that are artificially constructed getting in the way to mar the beauty.

Mohammad is finished with his schooling at the school ...

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