Turtles Can Fly
Turtles Can Fly Persian Lakposhth ham parvaz mikonand, Kurdish Ks J Dikarin Bifirin Turkish Kaplumbaalar Da Uar is a 2004 Kurdish war drama film written, produced, and directed by Bahman Ghobadi, with notable theme music composed by Hossein Alizadeh. It was the first film to be made in Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein.
The industrious Satellite arranges tradeins for undetonated mines. He falls for an orphan named Agrin, assisting her whenever possible in order to win her over. She is a perpetual dourfaced girl who is part bitter, part lost in thought, unable to escape the demons of the past. Traveling with her is her disabled, but very caring brother Hengov, who appears to have the gift of clairvoyance, though he seems to have a bad reputation for it. The siblings stay with a blind toddler named Riga. On course, we come to know that Agrin gave birth to him after she was gang raped by soldiers In Agrin and Hengovs village, the girls had been killed after being raped, while the boys and their families were plain butchered. Hengovs arms had been shot as the soldiers attempted to drown both children. Throughout the film, we see how Agrin has been unable to accept Riga who according to Agrin mysteriously unties his tethered leg and walks at night and returns to the camp safely despite his claims of being blind as anything besides a taint, a continuous reminder of a brutal past.Agrin tries to abandon the child on multiple occasions, until finally she ties him to a rock and throws him to the bottom of the lake, latter going in for suicide herself from a cliff. When her brother sees a vision of his loved ones drowning, he hurries out of the tent crying and tries to salvage whatever can be. However, his nightmare is late amp indeed all is lost by then. On his way to the lake, a flashback of Agrin in her final moments haunts Hengov standing on the abandoned tanks, Hengov eventually finds his nephew s body at the bottom of the lake but cant cut it loose from the rock partly due to his inability. At last he is seen grieving on the cliff from where Agrin jumped to her death, where he ultimately collects the shoes left behind by Agrin before the fatal leap. By the turn of the events including a disabled Satellite, the same protagonist loses any charm he had about the American intervention and
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