Review of Turtles Can Fly (2004) by Bianca S — 23 Jan 2009
One of the movies that you might not be able to watch it again soon, once it's finished. Because all of it is so powerful, so intense, so heartbreaking, that it would be hard to forget anything, including what you felt watching it, but mostly because exposure to the drama (that you can tell it is so real) I is hard to endure for us. We are so used to our comfortable lives, that this movie it will make you feel ashamed of everything you have, the most simple things that you consider normal. And I am not talking about material things here. This movie will make you laugh at the lack of them. But the lack of any remains of humanity, of tenderness, of naivete in this movie, without making you feel at any moment that it is preaching to you about something... that is genius.
The movie will not uplift your heart. It will not make you feel how great humanity is. It might depress you significantly. But in the end you will wonder how come you dare not to be aware that there are places on this Earth where children stay at the edge between paradise and hell, and do not always step where we were taught they always go, and that would be paradise. No, children will fall too, and their failure is the failure of entire humanity.
Watch it. And do not forget it.
This review of Turtles Can Fly (2004) was written by Bianca S on 23 Jan 2009.
Turtles Can Fly has generally received very positive reviews.
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