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	Votes 0 +0 / -0 thumb up thumb down The Willow Tree (2005) Genre: Dramas 80% 80% compare Agrees With.... Critics: Check Top Critics: Check Community: Check Friends: N/A Favorites: N/A Posted on 8/12/07 at 7:39 AM In "The Willow Tree," Yusef(Parviz Parastui) is a university professor in Tehran married to Roya(Roya Taymourian) and father of a young girl, Maryam(Melika Eslafi). He has also been blind since the age of eight. While at a hospital in France to have a tumor beneath one of his eyes removed, he learns his retinas are not totally gone and there is a chance that he may regain his sight... "The Willow Tree" is an insightful and thoughtful parable about how we see the world with our eyes but also how the blind live in the world, especially by how they listen to sounds. Yusef's losing his sight when he was a child irrevocably changed not only his life and the direction it would take, but also how people see him. So, I cannot condemn him for his actions, as he seeks to discover the kind of person he could have been. Early on in the film, Yusef takes a fall and is later seen unconscious in a hospital bed but his recovery is not shown nor is this event again mentioned. So, it is possible that the later events in the film are simply dreamed by him, imagining what it would be like to have his sight back. 0 Comments \| Post a Comment \| Send This \| Report Abuse

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