#OFFSIDE

[jafar-panahi]

Offside (2006 🇮🇷), directed by Jafar Panahi

The Tehran soccer stadium roars with 100,000 cheering men -- and only men. The girls who are caught sneaking into the match and the soldiers who guard them, end up playing their own sort of game -- far more compelling than the championship inside.

[bigblazecoffee]

Might I interest Real Madrid players in a therapist and a 3 minute youtube video explaining the offside rule?

[bangbangwhoa]

books I’ve read in 2024 📖 no. 092

Offside by Avery Keelan

“Just my luck: one of the hottest chicks I’d ever met hated my guts. Or was she hot because she hated me? Maybe it was a bit of both.”

[roseillith]

OFFSIDE (2006) dir. JAFAR PANAHI

[giaima61]

hahahaha es fuera de juego!

[gael-garcia]

the butch in Jafar Panahi's Offside I hope she's doing well

[myownfollower]

Can y'all give me ideas on books to read based on my previous reads? (The way I used to be, the way I am now, wildfire, icebreaker, offside, this one summer, speak: graphic novel). I'm experiencing readers block rn 🥲

[stanleycupavoider]

i hate getting goals overturned, but god i love watching them happen

[eyestumblin]

Thinking about Offside (2006), (which I highly recommend and am going to include spoilers about). It's just incredible how clear the contrast is between "safety", "protection", and freedom, connection, and joy. Right away we're shown there is some legitimate danger in the rowdiness of the fans on the bus breaking into a fight. This kind of violence is used as the reason to forbid women from the stadium, but repeatedly, when men do notice the women, their reaction is only quiet sympathy or support. Coarse language is also blamed, but no one seems to truly believe it's so harmful (even the soldier who instructs a woman to cover her eyes so she can't read graffiti swears profusely around the group when describing the game to them). The soldiers who hold the women captive in their pen do seem sincere in their belief that patriarchal control comes from noble intentions of protecting them, especially when one intervenes in an actual threat of violence. They are just unwilling to acknowledge the misery this "protection" brings. Setting this story in a literal holding pen, a little box so close to but so far from an enormous sea of touch and camaraderie and shared joy is incredibly effective. To Protect these people, they are isolated, punished, and terrorized. Supposedly to serve them, they are denied basic human needs; to use the toilet, to speak, to express emotions, to interact with the world. The punishment that awaits them for daring to defy these laws conveyed such intense fear in this film, it's no small feat that it also provides some relief with humor and through the warmth and charm of its characters. The women finding connection and support in each other is an immediate improvement after watching the first girl's long, terrifying trip alone. The soldiers are frightening as servants of a deaf and unmovable authority, but also written as simply humans who would prefer not being forced into what they are doing.

Through these people, the director is also speaking about himself as a filmmaker, as any creative person censored and punished by their country. The courage to choose experiencing and sharing life when knowing how dangerous that course is staggers me to think about. The real women who go to the stadium, the director who makes and releases films that are banned in his country and becomes a state prisoner. It's hard to wrap my head around their willingness to accept that pursuit of life and truth may require sacrificing all they have.

Repeatedly, characters are asked why they didn't just stay home and watch the game on TV or radio where they are Allowed. The blind man's answer is about the energy, the movement, the sensations and connection with the crowd. We get to experience this in the end when the van is stopped and a man pushes his way in with food to share with strangers; people are hugging and kissing and holding onto each other, singing and dancing. The soldiers are pulled out into the street to dance, the van is consumed by the crowd and the barriers of vehicle and state are no more. Enveloped by lights sparkling around their heads, smells and sounds and touch of the joyful human organism, the soldiers and prisoners, men and women, all become indistinguishable from the People, the Gems of Iran.

[little-miss-romance]

“Chase,” she said. “You have to know that isn’t true. There is no scenario where I am better off without you. Ever.”

[suntogrub]

Hmmm but god did "lend a hand" in the Argentina v England FIFA 86 quarter...

[jafar-panahi]

Offside (2006 🇮🇷) directed by Jafar Panahi

[fyeahgustavo]

dont be offside dont be offside dont be offside

[sucka99]

[roseillith]

OFFSIDE (2006) dir. JAFAR PANAHI

[mtonino]

Cinediario 2023 - novembre

Offside (2006) dir. Jafar Panahi