I like Turtles... Can Fly?

In the film Turtles Can Fly families from a Kurdish refugee camp are seen going about their daily routines including collecting mines and sorting used artillery shells.  One of the main characters a boy aptly named "Satellite" acts as the camps go-to.  He seems to be the most tech savvy and therefore, when the camp wants to know when the war between the western powers and the middle east will start they go to him.

Diaspora is examined in this film through a set of sub main characters.  A little girl her brother and what seems to be.. somehow the little girls son?  Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think it's possible for a child that young to have a child that old... For instance the toddler was already speaking in sentences so he had to be at least two or three.  The girl couldn't have been more than thirteen and honestly looked more to be eleven or twelve.  So, in light of these assumptions one could estimate that the young girl could have been no older than ten when she was unfortunately raped and impregnated.  That being said it, to me, is more likely that the boy must have been something other than her own.  Yet the story would show otherwise...  On top of all that how did a girl that young give birth in a third world country.  Not to mention, during a diaspora.  I mean she's a refugee.  It just makes no sense to me.  Alas though, stranger things have happened.

Back to the meat of the film, the director shows how the  movement of peoples from country to country deeply affects and effects the people in neighboring villages.  For instance when Satellite is telling his "boys" (workers) that the refugees aren't with them.  Moreover, after the dish is purchased from the city, the refugees show up at the village because they want to know what's going on with the war.

As Michael T. Martin and Marilyn Yaquinto write, "The second half of the 20th century, referred to by some demographers as the "century of migration" is distinguished by the magnitude, direction, and composition of international migration".  Now migration can mean many things here.  There's immigration, business relocation, outsourcing, pleasure relocation and then there is what the movie aimed to examine diaspora.  Literally not having a home anymore you're just a Jackson Pollock painting of religions, ethnicity and language.  All of which have there own barriers to be overcome.  Did this film get that across?  I'm not really sure but it was pretty interesting albeit the ambiguity I faced when determining the immediate ancestry of the toddler.  None the less the films are getting better and better.  Or at least easier and easier to watch.