Araghe Sard

The movie started with good introduction and spectator be curious. This movie show iranian women's difficulties especially athlete women and product this kind of movie is difficult in iran. The end of the movie is the best scene of that.

Araghe Sard aka Permission is a 90 minutes movie about womens situation in Iran. It is obvious and well known to everyone that women are oppressed in Iran. The situation is so bad that if a husband denies his wife permission to leave the country the Iranian government works with the husband to see the wife stays in Iran.

This legal point is excellent and is well presented in this movie. That takes about ten minutes. After those ten minutes the whole movie stagnates into nothing. There are so many ways this movie could have gone on with bigger drama. I fear the only reason the plot disappears into nothing after ten minutes is an attempt to please Iranian government censorship.

Is the very bad iranian policy really worth a 90 minutes movie in itself? Perhaps it is for people who think women are well treated in Iran. For the rest of us, I don't know. Despite its excellent political goal this all gets a bit too thin for my taste.

This is a great movie showing how women are second class citizens and treated like commodity in a traditional religious system. A system that gives men all kinds of power to decide for their wives or daughters against their own will and desires. I'm surprised that a movie like this has been produced in Iran. I congratulate the producers, director and cast of the movie for a realistic portrayal of a discriminatory sexist social and systemic reality.

What's worse than being married to a complete jerk? Being married to a complete jerk IN IRAN. Our heroine is the captain of the Iranian national indoor soccer team, off for the championship game in Malaysia. But at the airport, she learns that her husband has banned her from leaving the country, as is his legal right in Iran.

Things go downhill from there. She seeks redress, but since the system is rigged against her, it is not an easy fight. The film is nicely acted with well written, three dimensional characters. For instance, our lead is not all sweetness and light -- she is aggressive, insubordinate and confrontational, and has alienated the team's female boss / team mother / chaperone / morals gestapo even before the problem with her husband arose.

I am an Iranian living in America, great movie. I was raised and grew up in Iran. The laws are stupid. Great acting, great storyline...worth watching...