Turtles Can't Fly

In Turtles Can Fly the refugee characters seem to be the most negatively affected by the diaspora.  It showed how the people in the village had privileges that the refugees in the camp didn't have.  The three kids that live in the refugee camp live in a very basic tent with no amenities, while the villagers have bicycles, satellites, and television.  Also Satellite, a villager in the film, has the means of putting together work groups which it looked like were mostly composed of children living in the camp.  This was partly because many of the refugees were orphans whose parents had died in the war.  This reminded me of the relationship between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie social classes.  It showed how you can be the US and try to imperialize middle eastern countries and countries in general to outsource labor, or be a middle eastern country with refugees doing the same thing.  It shows how the cycle of control between groups across the world are affected by politics and war everyday.  In the film the numbing theme of middle eastern films continue.  The girl refugee seems numbed by the fact that she was raped and forced to bear a child that she essentially hates.  Her brother is numbed by the raping of his sister, and seems to have a case of post traumatic stress because of the things the soldiers did to him and his family.  Not to mention the fact that he was picking up landmines for money, despite the fact that both of his arms were already blown off by land mines.  They are both terrible things to go through, and all of the characters' numbness seem to be a result of the circumstances of war. 

Overall I think the film shows the life of people living in post war and war ridden countries in the middle east very explicitly. I like the fact that the characters are more developed in this film than the previous films we have watched, especially in the case of the girl who we find out that, the little boy was her son and she was brutally raped in the invasion.  I like the fact that these films are composed with so much focus on the emotion or lack there of, of the characters to depict the hardness of the people as a result of their political circumstances.  These films are definitely not selling out to achieve a mainstream audience.  The movies are about raising political questions, and also questions about  human nature in general.  If these movies don't raise questions about the ethical problems of what goes on in the world today, and actions that governments take in order to reach their motivations in present society than there is a major problem.