Wednesday, November 07, 2007
The ending
I think the conclusion of the film was just breathtaking — the way all the turmoil simply dissolved into celebration, the way the captors and captives, after this long day of strife, just spilled out of the bus into the beautiful, jubilant crowd, into the freedom and anonymity of the urban night, all worries dissipated, all obedience to irrational authority evaporated. I touched on this — and the significant playing of the Persian national anthem — earlier as one of my favorite things about the movie, but I think it bears consideration in its own right. The ending is so right for me that I can hardly imagine it ending in any other way. I can see why the filmmaker was praying for victory. Do you have any thoughts on the film's resolution?
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It was essential. It would have been a different film, don't you think, if Iran had lost and all the girls were just carried sadly off to the Vice Squad.
I thought it ended with a lot of promise because of how this was essentially a film about youths -- in the few cases where adults stepped in (the father admonishing his daughter), the girl's peers rallied around her. It's an optimistic ending -- that Iran's younger generation doesn't buy into the old ways, and change is unstoppable. Some may succumb to their parents' way of thinking, but I'm left with the impression that the rules of the day didn't resonate with the young. Like the soccer team's prospects, the future looks bright.
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