The streets of Hirat, Afghanistan, paved are not gold but with a scrolling symbol in vibrant drama “rules rules”. The teacher and the startup owner of Roya Mahmoudb believes in the transformational capabilities of computers. Roya was photographed with a mixture of stubbornness and intelligence by Nikohl Boosheri, a kind of meditation that sees pictures of computer screens and iris code lines on the walls of construction and roads in Herrat.
“The first time I touched a computer, it was like a light in the dark.” Similar to the “rules of rules”, which tells the story of Roya and the four talented students who struggle in the first team of robots in Afghanistan.
While director Bill Gotting tends more to the rules of gender than separation, the film is a beam of light – about mathematics, science and the ability of girls to achieve it – reaching a moment when the Taliban not only continues to deprive girls with great education in Afghanistan, but also science in our country. We can all use some light.
As Bozeri played, Roya is a real believer – or, as Samir (Ali Fadl), an Indian technology businessman who is his teacher and a hero, says more than once, she is “a very fixed person.” It should be. Early, Roya, Amela and their brother Ali (Nurin Golajagus) were moved on a dominated road from masked Taliban in a rural truck.
It also indicates a truck window, cutting the film to 18 years. In 1999, Roya’s father encourages his young daughter to be curious like boys around computers that reach her semester. (It is not the only winning girl in the movie.) Although she is trying, she and the other girls are excluded from the classroom by the teacher, who then offers boys to newly empty computers. Roya is seen from the outside.
She may be excluded, but she does not prevent her from wanting to get her hands on a computer. She is a few years old and more paid, as she managed to reach one sitting in a bakery cafe. It makes a deal with the owner of the chauvinist bakery, one who did not think he would have to fulfill. Soon the store is and repair. Later, he is subjected to a classroom class, then you get an unlikely percentage of students to support it. Fear, but without deterrence, it can be the subject of the movie.
Fortunately Roya, because the meeting on the road in 2017 could have turned into a deadly endeavor or at least her endeavor to teach girls coding and other technical skills. The method that you recruit with four mathematics doctors is filmed in its first robot team with Beats, which will be familiar to sports filmmakers. However, the research – and then, the scenes of competition – work their magic. The development of Taara (Nina Hoseinzadeh), Haadiya (Sara Malal Rowe), Arezo (Mariam Saraj) and Esin (Amber Afzali) sweet chemistry. Certainly, we are withdrawing the Quartet Committee and its volatile inventions to win international competitions, but so that we hope that it will grow and flourish away from the restrictions of the house.
Film makers guarantee that similar viewers at the age of children on the screen get a set of forms of what are the rims that resemble contestants, who arrive from all over the world. They are the student’s party, who is studying a lot! Contemporary children prove competitive but also cooperative and curious about each other. It represents a variety of ethnicity and nationalities, and there are many girls in solving the leading problems and teams. “Here, everyone helps each other,” says one of the children.
There will be relapses, and a lot of setbacks. Some will be technical, others logistics or bureaucracy. Some people will throw road barriers (including the American embassy). But the unexpected allies and turn into the team’s issue also show: passengers awaiting a trip to Kabul, an American technology correspondent, perhaps even the owner of the annoying bakery.
Along the way, the robots – which resemble mobile combinations – get more intelligence and functional. If the first competition in Washington, DC, feels like it is short, then it will be a lot. And if Roya appears soaked in her initial accomplishments, then she expects her team to do better. It is not one to settle.
There will also be the reaction. While the team excels and gets the attention of the international journalist, the Taliban and other obstacles at home are noting a science. A devastating loss forces Roya to rethink her invitation. Fortunately at that time, it is not the only dream.
Since the September 11 attacks, there has been a handful of convincing and mobile films about girls and young women who are pushing against the repressive Islamic regimes of their countries, among them: “Osama”, which was placed in Afghanistan; “Wadjda”, located in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; The “circumstance” in Tehran; And “Malala’s name”, which is the American documentary film on the educational activist Malala Youssafzai, who was almost killed by the Taliban.
These films are deeper into the cultures they depicted and more illuminated. But when the story of Roya and her young heroes in coordination of a tried, Guttenag offers an amusing argument on the global importance of science sciences (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) for all children while celebrating the amazing achievement of its smart heroes.
The “rules of rules” arrive at a time when the situation continues for women and girls in Afghanistan to move. Neither the sisters Mhahaboub (Elaha participated in writing the script) nor the members of the other robotics team who are currently living in Afghanistan. Regardless of the “rules of rules” – surprisingly – somehow that acts as a warning.