This is indeed the initial structure of the film, and in order to satisfy the different but intersecting stories that occurred in the three families, the screenwriter changed the narrative structure of the film into a popular multi-paragraph expression technique. The characters fully expressed in the three paragraphs characteristics and the great changes that have taken place in them.
But the film still left suspense or thinking for the audience in the end, can father and son meet again? Can a German mother and a Turkish girl start a new family? Maybe many viewers hope for a happy ending, but I don't think such an ending will come so easily in the current changing situation in Turkey.
Yes, for me, the thinking brought by this film is not limited to father and son, mother and daughter, friendship, but also to the topic of "Europeanization". This may be my personal understanding, an extra element added to Fatih Akin, but I think that from the changes of ordinary families, I can see the different feelings of "Europeanization" for different countries and nations.
Perhaps families from Germany have already felt the interests of the EU, and they are willing to use the banner of the EU to expand their alliances, better demonstrate democracy, and improve the economy; but for Turkey or more Eastern European countries, "EUization" It means the choice, the choice of national culture, the choice of political system;
what moved me most in the film was the transformation of Charlotte's mother, from an elderly woman who lived and enjoyed in Germany to a woman willing to live in Germany. The "radical" who helped a strange girl in a foreign land may be behind Charlotte's death, but I prefer to think that she is a person who is willing to help the disadvantaged in her bones, and she is willing to help Aitane, Germany is willing to help Turkey...
It is not a pleasure to learn about the changes that other countries are facing through a film, and to really feel the true story of the director's artistic expression.
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