Most of the reviews here are biased towards a Turkish patriotism, not good...
Most of the non-Turkish reviews are here not to review but to protest the high ratings of this movie, understandable...
But I sadly see that no one got the point.
First of all this movie does not praise Turkish soldiers, nor slanders Kurdish rebels. It has a slight feel of patriotism, but not as much as an average war movie.
You can't take the plot in the movie and interpret like it has an international message, like you do in private Ryan. Because you and even most of the Turkish people DOES NOT HAVE A CLUE about what is really going on in the eastern Turkey.
I've been there as a soldier, in a troop very near to the place chosen for this film. With the things i saw and observed while I was there, with the conclusions I draw after coming back and thinking about what I experienced for a while, this film is decently REALISTIC and PERSUASIVE to me.
Because it's about the unbelievably wrong methods the government and army carry in Eastern Turkey.
It's about ordinary and irrelevant young men named "soldiers" after a couple of months so called training and are forced to fight an imposed and everlasting war.
It's partly about a commander, who lost his sanity and hope after his best friends death.
And it's not about anything else...
Most of the non-Turkish reviews are here not to review but to protest the high ratings of this movie, understandable...
But I sadly see that no one got the point.
First of all this movie does not praise Turkish soldiers, nor slanders Kurdish rebels. It has a slight feel of patriotism, but not as much as an average war movie.
You can't take the plot in the movie and interpret like it has an international message, like you do in private Ryan. Because you and even most of the Turkish people DOES NOT HAVE A CLUE about what is really going on in the eastern Turkey.
I've been there as a soldier, in a troop very near to the place chosen for this film. With the things i saw and observed while I was there, with the conclusions I draw after coming back and thinking about what I experienced for a while, this film is decently REALISTIC and PERSUASIVE to me.
Because it's about the unbelievably wrong methods the government and army carry in Eastern Turkey.
It's about ordinary and irrelevant young men named "soldiers" after a couple of months so called training and are forced to fight an imposed and everlasting war.
It's partly about a commander, who lost his sanity and hope after his best friends death.
And it's not about anything else...