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Bahman Ghobadi's „Turtles Can Fly“ tells us about confidence and strong company in a society and about life, that can go on, even at wartime.
In a Kurdish refugee camp in Iraq, at the Turkish border, all hope is set on Satellite, the boy who, despite of the circumstances, makes everybody lead a relatively normal life and provides them with news. It is only a few days after Saddam's toxic gas, not long before the American invasion will come. Satellite seems to be a light, which helps you to orientate, until the dark covers everything, a branch, which you grab for, before you drown.
In Agrin, Satellite finds this hold for himself, but he can't attract her to him. It is a new experience for him, to be unable to give a person what she needs to choose life.
There can hardly be a better declaration of love to life than the movie „Turtles Can Fly“. Full of happiness and despair you learn, how much a single moment counts.
The camera is extraordinary beautiful and the music underlines the intensity of this movie.
But very often it was hard to understand the context and the story appeared quite unclear sometimes.
This shouldn't keep you from decreasing this distance by watching the movie.