Deep Ecological Consciousness in Majid Majidi’s The Color of Paradise

Abstract

This research work focuses on the issues of the inter-relationship between organism and ecosystem in Majid Majidi’sThe Color of Paradise (1999). The protagonists of the movie are guided by ecological awareness and evoked their sense of love and empathy to nature through their empathetical deeds. This ecological consciousnessgives intensive insights or convey long term deep messages to the people who are anthropocentric regarding their everyday activities. The study examines the issues of the inter-relationship between human and nature throughout the film. The characters devote themselves for the welfare of others and are engaged so seriously in order to protect the non-human creatures that most of thepeople generally ignore. This research addresses the importance of empathetical sense or ecological awareness to avoid global ecological crisis. In order to analyze the text, the ecocritical study with reference to the philosophy of deep ecology from the perspective of Arne Naess, George Sessions and Bill Devall is used as the theoretical tool in the research. By using the theory of deep ecology the research gives the message that all human and non-human life in nature has equal intrinsic worth and renunciation of materiality and adoption of ecofriendly notion is inescapablefor welfare and happiness.The Color of Paradise presents deep ecological insights in the form of visual art that the protagonists of the film through their empathetical deeds extends ecological awareness against anthropocentrism.