Leila Movie Analysis

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The soldiers provided the women with not good reasons. They could not justify why women could not be in arena. One of the women makes a point that women and men are allowed to go to the movies together, but a soccer game (Offside). A movie theater is dark, and worst things can happen at the movie theater than a soccer game. This demonstrates that the Iranian government censors their audience and that their rules do not make sense. By the girls questioning the government’s laws, illustrates that the Iranian citizens have a lack of understanding of their government. This depicts the Iranian government as secretive and not open to their citizens. Despite what the soldier may have felt about the matter, they were too focused on not loosing their …show more content…

The movie Leila takes place in Iran in the 1990s. The movie discusses the importance of having a child in the Iranian culture, especially having a son. The movie also discusses the idea of polygamy marriage (Leila). Leila the main character can not have children and is faced with the hard decision of letting her husband get a second wife, so he can have children. Leila feels the pressure of her selfish mother-in-law, and agrees to her husband having a second wife. Her husband is madly in love with her and is happy with his life how it is, even without children (Leila). In the film we see no one is accepting to the idea of having a second wife and tries to convince Leila to stand to up for herself (Leila). Viewers get an understanding that polygamy is not common, nor socially acceptable in today’s society among the new generation (Leila). Even in the Koran, it says that a man can have up to four wives, but must treat them all equal. It is impossible to be equal. Reezah’s sisters try to explain this Leila, but she caught up with her own thoughts. In the end Leila does realize that it is impossible to be treated equal and is heartbroken by Reezah. She realizes now that she should have not agreed to him having a second wife. The movie illustrates to the viewers that the new generation of Iran is changing their views on marriage and having

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