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it is an Iranian movie about law that forbidden women to attain public football game. it had some light heart relief. i think this is the first time i saw an Iranian film. it was very interest to see how Iranian soldiers treated those Iranian women who tried to sneak in the football stadium. whenever these soldiers tried to restrict those women's movement, these soldiers would say that they were protecting these women from 100000 male spectators in the stadium. but this did not happen to just soldiers, but also other males. there was a scene in the very beginning on a bus, an older spectator told a younger one, who discovered that there's a female disguised as a male rather awkwardly, that stop staring at the young female. she was just like your mother and sisters...

this film was very human. i liked it quite a bit. it touches a social/political issue. but it did not use the issue to spur. it is gentle, but unafraid.