"The Mountain 2" is not that mountain

Clementine 2022-10-28 05:06:02

My colleague downloaded "The Mountain 2" on the computer before the business trip, and told me that the online reviews were good. I finished watching this low-cost Turkish war movie in the mood of worshipping the gods. (I tried to give up a few times in the middle and sat down forcibly. After all, when my colleagues came back to chat with me, I didn’t even watch it, so it was convincing.) The movie is about the Turkish special forces who crossed the border to Iraq to rescue a woman kidnapped by ISIS. The reporter, passing through a Turkmen village on the way back, decided to stay away from nearly a battalion of terrorists in order to save the villagers. Regardless of whether the film is plagiarized from Hollywood or not, the memories of these special forces players interspersed in the film are too blunt, so hard that I wanted to give up the show several times, and finally I fast-forwarded and watched it. As a low-cost movie, although it is a war movie, there is no grand war scene or cool special effects. But it's a dignified Turkish national theme movie, with a lofty idea that can be compared with a wolf 2 in your country? As a major power in the region, Turkey, let alone carrying out secret special operations missions, directly sends troops to cross the border even in large-scale clean-up operations, and despite the repeated protests of the host country, it still does its own thing. Think of the people who shouted that your country was using military force when China's first domestic aircraft carrier was launched, and it is enough to see the blood boil when the Turkish army raises the Turkish flag in the Iraqi village in the movie. There is also the rhetoric that sees Turkmens as Turks, and then shouts "Where there are Turks, home is home". I can't help but wonder whether all Turkic-speaking peoples can be regarded as Turks according to this formulation, and the places where they live can be regarded as the land of Turks. Will the great Ottoman Empire rejuvenate one day make territorial claims to China? After all, the Turks originated from the Altai Mountains in Xinjiang, China.

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The Mountain II quotes

  • Lieutenant Colonel Veysel Gökmusa: We are the unseen, the unknown, Our stories won't be told. Our names won't be remembered. We'll be forgotten. We are your hammer. The tip of your drawn arrow. We appear suddenly, we vanish suddenly. So that suffering stays away from you. so that your children are saved. What we do is unimportant. You might as well never know. So long as you're safe.

  • Specialist Bekir Özbey: They have a tank.

    First Lieutenant Oguz Caglar: We have a Bekir.