Turtles Can Fly (2005)

Sorry, this movie sucks

Admirable film.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

The energetic film, with a dark sense of humor, charges into one impending critical situation after another and never pauses to look back to evaluate what took place. Many possible subplots are brought up and just as quickly are forgotten (such as, an Iranian doctor in Iraq searching for an armless boy who makes predictions). It's a messy film but is strangely lyrical and moving, as it paints its ugly picture of a war-torn country that was promised by Bush that this war would make things better. The final shot of the once optimistic Satellite, now on crutches from a minefield explosion, turning his back on the American soldiers passing through his village, the same soldiers he a short time ago welcomed as the saviors of his people, tells us how that optimism has faded.

Turtles Can Fly, a movie that I was very crossed with. The movie is set in a small Kurdish village in Iraq. A young man is able to capitalize on the war and sell new/used American land mines. While doing this he encounters some of the young children who fell victim to Saddam Hussein's gas experiments. Satellite- the young capitalist- finds a boy with no arms and his abused sister, and her son walking into the village. The troubled little girl wants to rid her on her baby, but weirdly the brother wants to keep him. The movie is very dark in the fact that the young girl will eventually kill herself, and the armless boy becomes very sad about it. The most satisfying part of the film was the insertion of the American forces. It made me feel sane and gave me hope that just maybe the people in the small village would be saved. I personally would not recommend the movie, unless you like a very actuate and sad film, of the first Iraq war.

Review: I liked movie because it gave me a different perspective on Iraqi people and villages. American media portrays any country that the US is fighting with a negative light, and Iraq is subject to the propaganda. When you watch the war through the eyes of the Iraqi people in their home country, it really shows how much people struggle. There were so many mine and bombing victims, who were also mainly children, which is one example of how bad a war can be to a country. Limbless children are a very good way of showing the struggle that the Iraq Wars brought to their country. Another perspective that this movie gave me was the economic situation of some Iraqi towns. They were only able to buy one satellite even with everyone in their town giving money for it. The town that satellite lived in was very small and had few houses in it. Most of the people either lived in tents or inside the hollow shell of tanks. Overall, this movie gave me a Global Perspective on the struggles that Iraq went through during the Iraq War.

Such movies raise the bar beyond the best. You cannot imagine the kind of acting done by the kids, the picturization done and the storyline sequentially made. Its a story about refugees and orphans living their lives under the clouds of war. People not having access to electricity, food and money. These kids find their own means to survive in such situations. It includes the life of a kid leading the whole pack being the only guy knowing a bit of English and TV operations, handful in understanding the news to the village people. A guy and his sister, only persons left from the Turkish war. Many other kids and situation fall in place. The beauty of narration cannot be expressed in words. It has to be felt through words. Its a must watch movie. Please go, watch and experience the beauty of a new different world that may never be lived or experienced by us.