first of all i would like to say something about the director... i couldn't believe that he was the director of a such well directed film when i watched his first movie, i still have doubts about his work being his work but it has nothing to do with him being kurdish, it is just because of his earlier carrier being one of the worst singers in the country... maybe this was supposed to be his real carrier since the beginning...
i liked the film, i liked the camera work, i liked the coloring, i liked most of the acting (for example ali surmeli was not good enough, he can do much better)... but... i did not like the clichés... there is the cliché used by the snob intellectuals of turkey: the fight in the south east is the fault of both the army and the terrorists, the army should not be on the mountains... the army is there because the imperialist founded terrorists are on the mountains...
also the matter of villages evacuated... it is true that many villages were emptied by the army but there is a reason... there are villages on the region where all the population is consisting of relatives, like 2-3 families each having 10 children forms a village and all of them are relatives... and why do they do it? because they have problems with their cousins on the next village... the governments cannot provide everything to these small villages because the population is just not enough to spend that much, it is not a nice thing not to have a doctor in your village but no doctor would go to work in a village where there are only 5 houses... so this is a problem there but it was not created by the government, it is the problem of the region caused by the lifestyle... and they were evacuated because these small villages provide shelter and food to the terrorists even though they do not support terrorism but the terrorists are from their family...
also the gay cliché... it is like that everywhere around the world, no one wants a homosexual in the family... some people can deal with it and some cannot, and in the east where everyone around you is also family, it is a bigger problem for simple minded... they tend to kill the gay in order to clean the "virus" from the family because they just think it will spread to the others... but this killing is a way of life for these people, they kill the soldiers, doctors, teachers, nurses, policemen, everyone who are not one of them...
it is a nice movie, worth watching... but i am not really OK with the clichés... the message is good, we want peace... but the peace won't come to those who are holding the guns against the government... i am not a supporter of the government, i actually don't like any of their actions but i am not going to the mountains and bomb innocent people...
and the Oscar nomination... i think it can make it... after all they have all the clichés the academy likes, homosexuality, war and peace... and it is not anti-semitist, either... you know how political the academy can be so i wouldn't be surprised if this movie gets an award...
ps. 7 is above the average in my scale...
i liked the film, i liked the camera work, i liked the coloring, i liked most of the acting (for example ali surmeli was not good enough, he can do much better)... but... i did not like the clichés... there is the cliché used by the snob intellectuals of turkey: the fight in the south east is the fault of both the army and the terrorists, the army should not be on the mountains... the army is there because the imperialist founded terrorists are on the mountains...
also the matter of villages evacuated... it is true that many villages were emptied by the army but there is a reason... there are villages on the region where all the population is consisting of relatives, like 2-3 families each having 10 children forms a village and all of them are relatives... and why do they do it? because they have problems with their cousins on the next village... the governments cannot provide everything to these small villages because the population is just not enough to spend that much, it is not a nice thing not to have a doctor in your village but no doctor would go to work in a village where there are only 5 houses... so this is a problem there but it was not created by the government, it is the problem of the region caused by the lifestyle... and they were evacuated because these small villages provide shelter and food to the terrorists even though they do not support terrorism but the terrorists are from their family...
also the gay cliché... it is like that everywhere around the world, no one wants a homosexual in the family... some people can deal with it and some cannot, and in the east where everyone around you is also family, it is a bigger problem for simple minded... they tend to kill the gay in order to clean the "virus" from the family because they just think it will spread to the others... but this killing is a way of life for these people, they kill the soldiers, doctors, teachers, nurses, policemen, everyone who are not one of them...
it is a nice movie, worth watching... but i am not really OK with the clichés... the message is good, we want peace... but the peace won't come to those who are holding the guns against the government... i am not a supporter of the government, i actually don't like any of their actions but i am not going to the mountains and bomb innocent people...
and the Oscar nomination... i think it can make it... after all they have all the clichés the academy likes, homosexuality, war and peace... and it is not anti-semitist, either... you know how political the academy can be so i wouldn't be surprised if this movie gets an award...
ps. 7 is above the average in my scale...