Some movies are able to break you. Turtles Can Fly is such a movie. It is located on the border of Iraq and Turkey and depicts the lives of children who have experienced war even before they have known peace. They are without toys, comfort or safety but still they manage to live. They get used to the situation. They dont follow, they take the lead. They keep dreaming.
It really is Satellite, a kid who convinces other children to help him remove landmines and repair antennas for the news, that is the main point of the circle. Although he is short on years, yet the world has already taken away his innocence. Loss surrounds him a blind boy who is able to see too much, a girl tormented by her past, a child that comes from a violent family.
The plot is not slow. It is inhaling dust, silence, and pain. Every frame can be described as a hurt that you want to stay away from but at the same time, you cannot take your eyes off it. The movie does not request pity rather, it necessitates comprehension. It exemplifies how on one hand war causes laughter to be still alive and on the other, despair to be present yet hope to exist.
The sad parts are not the bombs but the silence in which these kids act as if life, love and even change by the world were still possible. When the film comes to an end tears wont be for the sadness of it but because it is reality.
Turtles Can Fly is a film that keeps us from forgetting that innocence is never lost even if everything else is wiped out. Also maybe it is that thing which makes it so painful and impossible to forget.
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