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Adú (2020)
Stunning
I can't believe how this movie had this rate. It's one of the best movies I ever seen. And it's not only from it's technical achievements, which they are actualy top notch. But it's realism. People may think these are just fiction, but unfortunately they are not. I was a marine engineer years ago. We saw a lot of refugees on board. Some of them not older than Adu. We found an entire family in one container. They were already dead because of no air. All that horrible things hide my memory some how. I wasn't think about them till this night. And I watch Adu. My eyes doesn't stop tearing right now. How could I live with these until now, I just can't understand. When I look my baby girl, she sleeps peacefuly, because she knows she is safe and prosper. But she may be one of their child. I know this must used to be a movie crittic but it turned a terrapy session. That is how Adu made an affect on my emptions. I just want to share.
The Promise (2016)
Despite the facts, still not a good movie.
As a Turk who from the very same region on this movie (A small village in Taurus Mountains), I want to add my comments on this. I heard all about the deportation from my ancestors. Also, I have relatives who helped Armenians during deportation. They provided shelter, clothes, food for them. So here my review.
This movie try to tell us there was a genocide, but not a deportation. But because of absence of proof, it only uses metaphoric messages such train scene and nearby German officers. That hurt me really deeply, because these scenes fells light about real genocide happened in world war 2. I really want to producers meet with descendants of this people who lives in Lebanon and U.S.A today (which I already met with them) and ask for them for real story. I will not to try to show a scene of picnic during a world war, It was not... for both sides.
First of all, the deportation was not start immediately. It was a consequence of Armenian militia actions from both east and western side of Turkey (And i have to admit, my family had suffered from actions of this militias also, murder, theft, even rape). So government decide to relocate them to inner side of anatolia and syria. Thanks to the war time shortages and fools from the Ottoman government, that relocation turned into disaster. Lots of people died from hunger, illness and cold. Some people even had to eat corpses. Remaining Turks also face to starvation and illness too during years of war. I really love to sea the real tragedy of that people on this scene.
But no. It is another low quality propaganda movie which try to tell a love story also, looks like glued into script. Acting and some scenes were good. Geographic reanimation was very well. So I gave 2 stars. Because, the rest of the movie was boring. stereotypical, orientalist and inaccurate.
By the way, I also don't like Ottoman Letaunant. It is just another tailored movie like this. I am still waiting a real epic movie about this events.
Get on Up (2014)
It's really get you hit eventually
As a fan of James Brown, I barely known about his life and personal habits. Thanks to his genius, he always fells us good with in addition his good feeling look. But real life hidden a lot of drama. In this movie, I fell that drama shows a little bit much. Instead of that overdoes flash backs, it would be better to show Brown's childhood agony with total colorless and let the audience's brain make connections. And a better older age make up would definitely help to put the score even higher. But these are all technical stuff anyway. This movie, like the James Brown music, doesn't fit general patterns but still full of life and joy. A good way to spend two hours with energize music, dance and biography of a true legend.
The Pacific (2010)
Wrong historical information on episode 3
To the attention of HBO Producers, During the third episode of the television show "The Pacific" which started airing on March 14th, 2010 in the USA, the dialogue between Marine soldier Leckie and the Greek woman is in contradiction with historical facts and aims to offend Turkey in the eyes of the international community. This scene suggests that Turks have invaded and ransacked Izmir.
First and foremost, we believe that this dialogue has been intentionally included in the script:
1. Even though a dialogue like this is not present in one of the original books the movie is based on, "Helmet For My Pillow" written by Robert Leckie, Marine Leckie sadly listens to this alleged "invasion" and agrees in the show.
2. Although the movie decribes WW2, Japan and the United States and the truth about the Pacific front in the 1940's; the audience is strangely left to see the story of a sacked Anatolian city in the 20's, which is total fiction.
Millions of people who don't know that Izmir was in fact invaded by the Greeks and have no idea about the history behind our country's struggle to become a free republic might think that Izmir was a Greek city and that it was invaded and sacked by the Turks. In fact, Izmir is a Turkish city where both Greeks and Turks live together and governed by Turkish states since the 14th century.
Izmir was invaded by the Greek army on May 15,1919; the city was besieged for 3 years, 3 months and 24 days by the Greeks and was saved by the national war waged by the Turkish people on September 9, 1922. In short, Izmir is not a Greek city that was sacked by the Turks, but rather a Turkish city that was sacked by the Greek government.
And when it comes to the great fire of Izmir, there are various theories. It is said that either the soldiers under Nurettin Pasha, fleeing Greeks or resisting Armenians might be responsible for the fire. In fact, there are some stories that suggest that the fire started in a cathedral where armory that belonged to resisting Armenians blew up. We would like to stress that it is not ethical to suggest statements in such a certain manner in a situation even when historians don't agree upon them.
This scene, which has apparently nothing to do with the entire concept of the show, looks like a clear case of lobbying. Once again, I would like to point out that this situation is blackening the independence struggle of a nation and wish that HBO would not be a mediator for misleading and provocative maneuvers such as this one.