{"id":294936,"date":"2021-07-09T16:32:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T13:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-platform-with-film-summary-and-movie-review\/"},"modified":"2021-07-09T16:32:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T13:32:00","slug":"watch-platform-with-film-summary-and-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-platform-with-film-summary-and-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Platform with film summary and movie review"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4e9955ec375\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4e9955ec375\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-platform-with-film-summary-and-movie-review\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Platform_Online%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Platform Online&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-5' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-5'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-5' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-5'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-5' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-5'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-platform-with-film-summary-and-movie-review\/#Roxana_Hadadi\" >Roxana Hadadi<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-platform-with-film-summary-and-movie-review\/#Platform_2021\" >Platform (2021)<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Platform_Online%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Platform Online&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/review\/primary_image\/reviews\/platform-movie-review-2021\/platform-movie-review-2021.jpeg\"><\/img><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section>Athletic dreams are universal: They transcend borders, ages, and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> classes\u2014and yet there are sometimes biases and prejudices tied up in who countries want representing them in international competitions. In the United States, this tension is playing out in the contrast between the \u201caggressively WASPy\u201d Olympian outfits designed by Ralph Lauren and accusations against Team USA of systemic racism, as in the recent disqualification of runner Sha\u2019Carri Richardson for ingesting marijuana in a state where the drug is legal. And in Iran, as captured in the revealing, intimate documentary \u201cPlatform,\u201d that tension is between the modesty the Islamic republic demands from women, and the fierceness and determination it takes to compete at an elite level.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section>\n<p>Director Sahar Mosayebi\u2019s \u201cPlatform\u201d follows three Iranian sisters as they train to become wushu champions. The martial art is popular in Iran, and Iranian athletes have won gold medals at the World Wushu Championships in recent years (and a few athletes have received bans after testing positive for steroids, a topic \u201cPlatform\u201d does not cover). Rather than focusing specifically on the practices of the International Wushu Federation, \u201cPlatform\u201d is a tighter portrait of thirtysomething sisters Shahrnaboo, Soheila, and Elaheh Mansourian, who hail from the Iranian city Semirom. They\u2019re all top-tier competitors at sanda, a full-contact combat sport that combines elements of boxing, wrestling, karate, and taekwondo.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The sisters, who often bicker and tease each other, are all driven by competitive ambition, but have different personalities. Shahrnaboo is sarcastic and outspoken, a daredevil who likes to ride motorcycles and ride horses\u2014and is the only sister who is married. Soheila is quieter and more reserved, and slightly cowed by not having the same numerous successes as Shahrnaboo and Elaheh. And Elaheh has a chip on her shoulder, and a frustration with the limited opportunities available in Iran for female athletes. \u201cWushu is not known in Iran, and neither am I,\u201d she says, and her bitterness is palpable. When \u201cPlatform\u201d begins in the months before the 2015 World Wushu Championships, all the sisters have won gold medals or held world titles in their separate weight classes\u2014and they\u2019re also struggling with the everyday economic and social frustrations of living in heavily sanctioned Iran.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In Semirom, the women are well-known. They\u2019re recognized and treated with respect by practically everyone: construction workers, store owners, and women in long black chadors, sharing the sidewalk with the sisters in their white, blue, and red track suits from the Iranian team. On a larger scale, though, the sisters, their fellow wushu practitioners, and their coaches say that they\u2019re underpaid and undervalued. State TV doesn\u2019t show their matches, and they\u2019re not given as much attention as male athletes. Their annual salary for being part of a competitive team is usually only $700 U.S. dollars. With that small amount, the sisters support their entire families\u2014a recurring scene is someone in the family going to one of the sisters and asking if there\u2019s enough money to pay a certain bill or fund a specific expense\u2014and inside and outside the home, they\u2019re under an immense amount of pressure to provide, and to conform.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section>\n<p>Inside the home, a relative snarks about how a lost competition means that the sisters can\u2019t underwrite the cost of an arranged-marriage engagement and wedding for one of their brothers (\u201cYou not only ruined your own plans, you ruined everyone else\u2019s\u201d). And outside the home, one of the documentary\u2019s most revealing moments in terms of how fellows Iranians treat the sisters with a mixture of affection and traditionalism includes one of those aforementioned older women on the sidewalk scolding \u201cShahrnaboo, you look like a boy!\u201d When Shahrnaboo good-naturedly asks, \u201cWhat should I do?\u201d, the woman\u2019s response of \u201cWear black\u201d\u2014implying that she should settle down, stop sports, and become more pious and conservative\u2014captures the contradictions here, and the simultaneous pride and chastisement these sisters regularly face.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As is traditional in Iran, eldest sister Shahrnaboo lives with her husband Omid, while middle sister Soheila and youngest sister Elaheh live with their mother. Each day involves some mixture of housework\u2014Shahrnaboo cooking for herself and Omid; Soheila and Elaheh helping clean and prepare food for their mother and other unmarried siblings\u2014and intense training both at a women-only gym and in the countryside. In the gym, the trio encourages each other and spars brutally with each other, throwing heavy kicks that <em>thwack<\/em> against the pads the sisters variously hold; Shahrnaboo in particular talks a big <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>. In the country, they run up hills, give each other piggyback rides through lush fields, and hold elastic bands around each other to increase the resistance of their punches and kicks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Interspersed throughout these hard-hitting, spryly edited training sequences are interviews Mosayebi did with each woman about their interest in wushu, their childhoods, and their dreams for the future. Some aspects of the women\u2019s histories and personalities are better contextualized than others. The sisters talk about how their athleticism was built from growing up in poverty and becoming hardened by a father who put them through the wringer: \u201cWe did a lot of men\u2019s work.\u201d A revelation about their relationships with their parents is achingly understated, and helps explain some of their drive to succeed. Also well-handled is mischievous Shahrnaboo\u2019s relationship with her husband Omid, himself a former wrestler. Omid is a fascinating figure who is aware of Iran\u2019s patriarchal society and knows that he\u2019s falling prey to it when he complains about the long months during which Shahrnaboo is away, but who also refuses to ever stop his wife from doing something she loves. The scenes of them together are obviously raw, as are the sisters\u2019 reactions to various failures, in particular an agonizing moment during which one of the sisters, after being rejected from Iran\u2019s national wushu team, goes home and asks their mother why her prayers for success didn\u2019t work.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section>\n<p>All of this adds up to an engrossing slice of life, like the recent \u201cSisters on Track,\u201d also about a trio of sisters rising to high levels of athletic competition. What is lacking in \u201cPlatform,\u201d though, are the details of what h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ened to the Mansourian sisters after the 2015 and 2016 wushu championships in which they competed. A closing intertitle card shares the sisters\u2019 ages, international wins, and that they have left Iran, but doesn\u2019t give any additional information about what they\u2019ve done since, and doesn\u2019t feature any recent interviews. Have they kept competing? If not, how are they adjusting to life without sports? In doing more research after watching \u201cPlatform,\u201d I read a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> story about how the sisters were punished by the International Wushu Federation for speaking out about steroid use in the sport and preferential treatment for certain athletes by the Iranian government. None of this is featured in \u201cPlatform,\u201d either. That\u2019s not to imply that the documentary isn\u2019t captivating enough in its current form. But its truncated ending, and the sense that there is far more to this story than what \u201cPlatform\u201d includes, puts a damper on the otherwise-engaging documentary. <\/p>\n<p><em>Now playing in select theaters.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure>\n<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Roxana Hadadi\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/user\/primary_image\/roxana-hadadi\/featured_RoxanaHadadiHeadshot1.jpg\" title=\"Roxana Hadadi\"><\/img><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div><figcaption>\n<h5><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Roxana_Hadadi\"><\/span>Roxana Hadadi<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>Roxana Hadadi is a film, television, and pop culture critic. 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