sea turtles, clumsily and honestly crawling slowly on the beach, do you have the desire to fly?
Or, when they stretch their legs freely in the water, can they be regarded as flying in another sense?
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。. "Flying Turtles", the third work of Iranian director Barman Gomati. It tells the story of a group of children ranging from two to three years old to their teens in a place called Kurdistan on the Iraqi-Turkish border a few weeks before the US-Iraq war.
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He is a loyal subordinate of the satellite, and he is always busy behind him. When the satellite assigns him a task, he is always honored to say: "I am happy to serve!
" Bicycle, he was slapped twice by Ismail (the village elder). In the heavy rain one day, he wept a lot, telling his misfortune while crying. In order to make the narrative more accurate and vivid, he also imitated Ismail and slapped himself mercilessly.
When the satellite risked his life to save the little boy named Riga, Sarakong burst into tears again: "You can't go! I had a terrible dream last night... Let me replace you! You He 's a good man, we can't live without you..."
Satellite is injured, the US military has entered the city, and his uncle is going to take him out of here, and he also excitedly ran to see the satellite and gave him two precious gifts - landmines An arm of Saddam's bronze statue exchanged from the US military, "Saddam's arm, look how beautiful it is!" It is hilarious. There are also a few red fish that my uncle bought from the U.S. military (it seems to be the dream of the children there. Three children in the village drowned unfortunately trying to catch red fish in a river, and the satellite also dived for the beloved girl. went to the water to look for red fish, but came back in vain).
The salad was empty, and the satellite looked at the red fish in the plastic bag with joy and curiosity. In order to see more clearly, he shook the bag, and the water slowly turned red - it turned out that this was just a white lie from Salakong to his friends! At that moment, the satellite was a little sullen, but I was deeply moved.
Paxiu is a few years older than Sarakong, and he is much taller. He is also a loyal friend of the satellite and a capable assistant. The only difference with him is that he is always leaning on a walking stick - a mine digger. In labor, he injured a leg.
On that day, Riga sleepwalked and walked to the barbed wire fence on the Iraq-Turkey border. In the misty rain and fog, he began to cry in horror. Paxiu and Satellite came, and Satellite picked up the little boy, but couldn't stop his crying. Pashu raised his crippled leg, pretended to be a machine gun, and "fired" at the Turkish sentry on the barbed wire not far away. Riga stopped crying and smiled happily, but Paxiu's bold move really attracted a few shots from the opposite side, and they ran away with a smile.
Yes, is "run", not "walk." There is also a scene in the film, Paxiu, who is leaning on crutches, and the satellite with healthy legs run fast together, running happily on the rolling hills. I can't stand the feeling of holding such a deformed foot that was disabled by the war as a toy in my hand, and I can't imagine how a child who was injured by the war can still smile as brilliantly as Pashu, and be so innocent . Perhaps, this is the strength and resilience of a child who grew up in such a special place and a special age - the pain is so close, I can still turn a blind eye, laughter is my birthright, and no fear can It plunders!
Satellite, the protagonist of the film, a fifteen-year-old boy with curly yellow hair and a face that resembles Harry Potter.
he is smart, clever, capable. He is the leader of the children in all the villages in this area. He is busy all day, and then arranges the children to dig mines in various villages, helps the villagers install TV antennas, earns money to support himself, and then takes the village elders to exchange for radios Go back to the "satellite pot" and watch foreign news programs; bargain with arms dealers for a while, hoping that the landmines dug up by the children at the risk of their lives can be sold at a fair price as much as possible, and then take your hands to the market to rent weapons, Dig trenches and fortifications on the hillside to prepare to defend against the incoming American soldiers. Looking at his busy figure, I couldn't help feeling: if such a child could go to school (on the eve of the war, there was no water, no electricity, and no school), if he could receive good training and education, his leadership ability would be greatly improved. , The economic mind can make him do a lot of business!
He also loves face, a little vanity, easily impulsive. The elders in the village asked him to translate foreign English news. How much English does this boy who keeps saying "Hello", "Come on" and "I don't know" all day long? I had to translate a piece of news about Bush's speech into "It's going to rain tomorrow." Hengoff (a boy with prophetic ability, will be mentioned below) told him that the war would soon ignite, and he quickly asked his men to inform the villagers and refugees scattered around, and let everyone go to the top of the mountain. Seeing that the grown-up never panicked at his own words, he felt a little smug, but worried that the prophecy would not come true, and repeatedly asked Hengoff: "You are telling the truth, right? You won't lie to me? Then I will It's too shameless." He bargained with the arms dealer, and he was defeated, but he still boasted in front of the children that "everything was done", and said that it was really a difficult negotiation, and it was not easy...
What I see in him is more sincerity, innocence, a fifteen-year-old boy's ignorant desire and pursuit of love.
At work, he happened to meet Aeglin, a young girl who was escaping. At first glance, he fell in love with her seriously, gave her a rope, generously refused to ask for money, and said that he would always have any difficulties in the future. Willing to help.
The girl went to the far mountain to fetch water, and he helped out in front of the saddle. He was always indifferent, and did not want to appreciate it, but he could not extinguish the burning love in his heart.
In order to make the girl happy, he jumped twice into the water that the villagers regarded as unclean, where three children had drowned, hoping to catch a few legendary red fish in exchange for a surprise look from the girl, a beautiful Smile. Such a moving move is only possible at such a moving age, right?
When leasing weapons at the market, he bought a necklace made of bullet casings and praised it from the bottom of his heart. Later, in the process of rescuing Riga, the necklace was lost, and its whereabouts were never found again. How many beautiful dreams about the necklace were once hidden in the heart of this fifteen-year-old boy?
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Agrin Hangoff Riga
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Riga, two or three years old? No bigger, just a miserable little child. His eyes were ill, and he often squinted his eyes strangely and made some inexplicable expressions. He was often hung around Hengoff's neck, or held in Agrin's arms, and he often slept between them with a rope (satellite rope) tied to his feet to prevent him from sleepwalking. Later, he was chained to a deserted cliff by Yaglin twice, beside the river. The first time, he was lucky enough to be rescued by the children in the village, and he slept peacefully at night as usual. The second time, a piece of The big rock was tied to the rope at his feet, the rock rolled into the river, and he sank with it. A life was lost.
Han Goff was called the "broken arm boy" by the village children. This lanky, tall kid had his arms blown off while digging a mine, leaving only two very short stumps (I can't bear to see such limbs). He could use them to pick up young Riga, and he could use them to wipe away tears of sadness.
A doctor looking for him everywhere, this boy with prophetic ability. In fact, he didn't like his unique ability-two premonitions, which brought two huge disasters. He didn't predict all of these, he was afraid of all of them.
On that day, the satellite drove him and Riga on the mountain road on a bicycle, and the power of foresight came again - the plane rumbled overhead, the tank slammed over the ground heavily, and in a trance, the catastrophe that I personally experienced was about to happen again. come to this land. His face twitched violently, his eyes filled with tears, and his heart trembled with fear—we are just children, we don't understand politics, why should the sins of adults be borne by children, why must our childhood be so miserable? !
And Yaglin, the girl who was adored by the satellite, how could the warm and simple satellite know how much pain and hatred she suffered in her heart that was not strong enough!
As a refugee, she has nervous, melancholy, and defensive eyes. Her dark red dress has never been changed from beginning to end. Her beautiful long flaxen hair is casually rolled up or let it fall. Combing her mind, her beautiful pale face was always filled with panic, indifference, or sadness, never even a single smile.
how can I remember that late night soaked with blood and tears, the sound of guns and guns is incessant, and the cries are one after another. The younger brother Hengoff fell to the ground and moaned in a pool of blood. Yaglin, who was wearing a red dress, was chased by a group of Iraqi soldiers. The poor girl fled everywhere, but how could she escape the claws of the beasts. Heartbreaking cry, O Allah, God, have you heard it? !
later, there is that child, that satellite has always thought it was her brother's child - Riga.
So Agrin hates him, hates him, although he raised him to two or three years old, but not a day is willing to face him, love him from the bottom of his heart.
So after being tortured by the pain in his heart that he could no longer bear, Agreen chose to go into the water and try to set himself on fire, chose to abandon him on the top of the mountain without people, and finally, chose to let the stones take him to sink into the water, and then, by herself. Jump from a high cliff into a surging river.
mountain wind, blowing her long dress dragging the ground. Taking off those clean, light blue shoes, she stood barefoot on the top of the mountain, looked back, and opened her arms - she chose to fly, flying straight to the abyss. From now on, there will be no more pain gnawing at her heart, no more fear attacking in her sleeping dreams, no more sadness, no need to be indifferent, but no longer able to live with her kind brother, no longer able to feel the loving gaze of the satellite. Touching, from then on, there is no worry or joy, from then on, everything returns to peace.
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