Cold Sweat

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.