Pouya G. Asadi
14Mar12
do your math!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The best commentary on the rigidity and doom of social caste since Les Miserables
I still like the fact that the characters in a Panahi/Kiarostami allegory are usually no more than mouthpieces for the ideologies at work, and that, true to the nature of allegories, the films themselves are baldly superfluously plotted to expose the undergirding of any pressing issue pathological to man, and not just specifically to the straits of Iran. It's Offside that thrills, though.
It's definetely flawed and at times very boring but the whole idea of a poor man getting a random taste of a rich man's life and then thrown back into his everyday life is very interesting to watch. I'm giving it 4 weak stars.