This time, "Flying Turtles", directed by Bahman Ghobadi, is also a movie starring a child. As the film festival's copywriting introduced, the whole film is full of "original but brutal beauty".
Although it is an Iranian movie, this one is about the Kurds. The location in the movie is believed to be a Kurdish refugee camp on the border between Turkey and Iraq. Movies with Kurdish themes all have a heavy and sad color, as if the entire nation is destined to have a tragic fate.
The Kurds are the most populous ethnic minority in the world today without their own land. They are scattered in Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Armenia and Syria.
Maybe God always likes to put extreme things together. Their fate may seem tragic, but I have been in contact with local Kurds in eastern Turkey. It felt like they were kind, warm, hospitable, and happy. Don't be arrogant, don't overreach. But under too much pressure, in the end, things will turn against each other, independent and divided, and every city will suffer.
The children in the movie, not knowing what destiny is, have already tried to resist the doomed tragedy and struggle to survive.
We, born in a zone of peace, sometimes wonder, why is the world so unfair?
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