The appearance of protheses in Turtles Can Fly, Kandahar, Saving Face, and o Heroi were presented with different importance and need in each movie. It's hard for most of us to imagine what living life without an arm or leg would be like, yet some of the characters in these films had no choice other than to adjust to life with a manmade limb. In Turtles Can Fly  the young boy carried on with all his daily activites as if he wasn't missing an arm, and complained or spoke about his disadvantage because of the other problems he had to deal with. In Kandahar, we saw dozens of people lined up at the Red Cross demanding prosthetic arms or legs and even racing one another to get the few that dropped from planes. A similar reaction was in Saving Face where the women felt they couldn't be themselves or go out in public with reconstructive surgery to their faces. I feel that in o Heroi, Vitorio's prosthetic leg was a crutch for him to operate functionally and helped him regain his manhood and pride that he lost in the war.

The thing I noticed most about this film was how much I my expectations differed from the actual ending. Throughout the entire film I thought Vitorio and his girlfriend were in fact Manu's parents, assuming there'd be some cliche happy ending. However, it was even better for them to continue living average lives but with a little more hope than they throughout the beginning of the film. Vitorio found a nice job and began acting as a father figure for Manu, a boy whom he had to ties to whatsoever.