I like watching Iranian movies. Every Iranian film has a particularly beautiful humanity in it. The rhythm is slow but charming, and the plot is simple and poetic. The main thing is that the protagonists in it are almost all kind.
The children who dig mines in "Turtles Can Fly" are as innocent as angels from heaven. Of course, most of the protagonists of Iranian films, especially children and teenagers, have a warm and simple humanity in them, which makes people have an urge to rescue them, but most of the time there is only helplessness and lamentation.
The war has brought great suffering to the country, and the hardest is actually the children at the bottom. They were thrown into a bewildering upbringing from birth. The two boys in this movie, Satellite and Hangrv (armless boy), have the bodies of teenagers, but hide the hearts of grown men: responsible, responsible, strong and brave. The armless boy's prophetic ability has a bit of magical realism, and on the other hand, it has become a force to promote the development of the plot. His prophecy came with a twist.
A simple little story, which is so shocking, makes us admire the country of Iran. The war destroyed their homeland, but could not take away their inner spiritual strength and cultural traditions. It is probably thanks to the strict censorship system of Iranian films that there have been groups of children from heaven, who are full of the beauty, kindness and bright spots of human nature. It seems that the elements of evil never appear in them. This is the routine of Iranian movies, but I have to be convinced by such clichés and admire their heritage and expressiveness.
Our nation has also experienced wars, but our methods of expressing wars are all heroic, as well as the confrontation between the enemy and ourselves, and the confrontation between justice and evil. Our camera has never been on the most ordinary and simple people, and the war left us only a lot of remembrances and concepts.
In Turtles Can Fly, the effects of war are obscured, and ethnic conflict is manifested in Agrin and her blind son. These hidden pains are like a girl's melancholy expression, indescribable. And the war between the United States and Iran flashed on the group of children who dug the landmines. Their mutilated limbs were just to dig out the American landmines to exchange for some money at the market.
Difficult to summarize Iranian movies. The monotonous and real background, the gray and white pictures, and the clear eyes of the children are silently talking about the cruelty of war.
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