“I am the one who believes in Allah and in the Vittoria!”. In appearance, no problemit would seem, seeing the beginning of the beautiful film Tatami (which is the synthetic mat on which Judo matches take place), directed by the Iranian Visit Amir Ebrahimi and from Israeli Native Guy. But no. Especially if your name is Leila (Arienne Mandy), a world-famous judoka, trained by an equally extraordinary and legendary coach like Maryam (Visit Amir Ebrahimi), and you are on the verge of winning Iran’s first gold medal at the world championships in Judo. However, the more you win the direct elimination matches, the more concrete a clash becomes between you, the reigning Iranian champion, and “the occupant”, meaning the Israeli athlete participating in the championship. And then, the supreme representative of Iran theocratic he says that, in the name of Allah, this cannot and must not happen. Therefore the meeting with the infidel Zionist cannot take place. Let it never be said that the Jewess emerges victorious from the direct confrontation, sanctioning the victory of the unbeliever over the servant of Allah. So, the imperative from above is: fake an accident, declare a forfeit and return to your homeland. Just as it happened to coach Maryam herself in her time, stopped for similar reasons by the power of those in charge Teheran, and consequently forced to fake a fracture in her (very healthy) leg, while she was projected towards the final victory. And since power is only interested in symbols and not at all in people, their ambitions and their dreams, the demons of persecution are unleashed on Leila, with cell phones that pretend to be a selfie and instead transmit the pale and frightened face of her desperate father. Leila, kidnapped by the political-religious police, with the man begging her to give up.
All the athlete’s relatives, at that point, are directly threatened, imprisoned and kidnapped in an attempt to make her give up, while Maryam also suffers the same fate for failing to force the withdrawal of her most famous representative. In the congestion of the chronicles of the victorious battles of Leila, who does not give up and continues her race, having received assurances that her husband and son managed to save themselves, the dark shadow of the power that exploits the internal complicity of theorganization of the championship. Even going so far, through his emissaries, as to threaten and put pressure directly on the athlete and coach, with all kinds of flattery and blackmail. Arrived at Quarter finals, Leila has to be treated for self-harm by the competition doctor, while the organization of the games gathers around her with a cordon of security and solidarity that is always very discreet, given the political stakes of which Leila is the innocent victim. But you cannot be a winner and a hero at the same time, evidently, because those who go towards the final must concentrate only on themselves, putting all their strengths at the service of the sport, and not to consume them in the terror that comes from the outside world, increasing its stress to the breaking point and thus forcing it, due to lack of concentration, to give way to an adversary that is decidedly beatable in normal conditions.
When Leila physically loses her race, she makes the revolutionary gesture for an Iranian of removing her veil, remaining with her beautiful hair loose in front of cameras around the world. Maximum insult for a theocratic regime that imposes on all women the obligation of a very strict “dress coding”the violation of which risks the death sentence by beatings moral police. Never as in this case, abandonment and escape from one’s country become the only choice, an obligatory path that passes through the right of asylum. The only way, the latter, to gain freedom, a gift that is all too obvious Westand continue to chase your great dream as an athlete who has the right to final victory, for simple sporting merit. And it will be precisely the athletic strength that will also guarantee Maryam, through a breathless race, to continue to live and train her champion Leila for the rest of her life, to give together with her a dream and hope to everyone the women of their countryso that one day they don’t need to deny their origins to become free citizens of the world.
Vote: 8.5/10
Updated April 10, 2024 at 12:49 pm
2024-04-10 11:03:25
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