On first glance Turtles can Fly might seem as a movie that will either pit you against the American invasion of Iraq or for it. You want to be for the American Invasion because the Kurdish people are looking forward to them taking the power from Iraq, one of the places that has been oppressing them. The people in the camp also hope that the American’s will help them set their national identity in stone. When they invaded at the end of the movie, the Americans took Saddam Hussein out of power and disarmed Iraq, however, they just drove through the small refugee camp of Kurdish people. In all actuality this movie is about a “stateless” group of people, The Kurds, trying to find their national identity.
Turtles can Fly is a film about a group
Turtles can Fly is a film about a group