Film Analysis: The Edge Of Heaven

In the movie Auf Anderen Seite (The Edge of Heaven), the father (Ali Aksu) has a very difficult time molding into the German culture because he has very strong Turkish ties, and because of this he is struggling to assimilate. Now on the other hand his son (Nejat Aksu) is having an easier time assimilating (molding) into the German culture well for one reason his age younger people can change their beliefs in a heartbeat because that 's what we do. In addition to that the son in the movie is a German Professor. Subsequently that is another indicator that the son is having a much easier time molding into the German culture. The father (Ali Aksu) as I said before is having a very hard time molding into the German culture because he still goes out and try 's to find only Turkish …show more content…
My mom is the more sensitive one in the family cried, but can you imagine if you sent your child away to college in a different part of the world that they are not used too. I have experienced this personally myself a couple of summers ago, I was sent to Germany for a Holocaust trip. Now the reason I 'm telling you all this information is because the longer you are in a new place you start to assimilate or (Mold) into that countries culture yourself, I know that definitely happened to me in Germany. In the movie, the mother and daughter pair were more affected by the views of other cultures, than they were with the generation gap, much like the father and son. This is primarily because the daughter had come back from college, while being in a different place and started to assimilate (mold) into that countries cultures as well as customs. Furthermore the mother is a proud German resident. I 'm not saying that a generation gap doesn 't have an effect here, all I 'm saying is it played less of a role with this pair than it did with the Turkish father plus the