A Beautiful Fairy-Tale About a Devastating Subject

Rating: 8/10 (19 November 2015)

Mention Gallipoli to Anyone Not Directly Tied to it and Anyone with a Historical Deficit and You're Likely to Get a Blank Stare.
But to Anyone with Ancestors Involved in WWI or Certainly Australians, the English, Turks, and Greeks, will Undoubtedly Have a Strong Emotional Opinion About Gallipoli. So This Directorial Effort from Russell Crowe has Become Quite Controversial Cinema.
It has been Attacked for its Propagandizing Certain Aspects of the Events Surrounding Gallipoli and Geopolitical Situations Both Then and Now. This Review Is Not and Will Not be Critical of the Historical Inaccuracies or the Political Motivations Behind the Movie.
This is a Beautiful Looking Exploration of a Very Ugly Time When a World was at War and the Horror and Slaughter and Genuine Display of "Man's Inhumanity to Man" was Present.
Behind the Scenes the Manipulation and Propaganda of the Masses was Evil and Intentional or Otherwise was as Devastating and Destructive as the War Machinery, Chemicals, and Disease.
This Film is a Fantasy. A Dream. A Fairy-Tale Told from the Perspective of an Australian Father Suffering the Loss of His Three Sons and His Wife to the War. He Embarks on a Vision Quest to Divine the Whereabouts of His Sons After the War.
But the War Hasn't Ceased and He Finds Himself in a Foreign Land and His Magic Carpet Ride is Just Beginning. The Movie Romanticized His Post Traumatic Story and is Entertaining and its Concern Seems to be Story Telling of the Fictional Kind Set Amongst a History that To This Day Can Evoke Strong Emotional Blowback and Various Visceral Reactions.
This, Like the "Arabian Nights" is Fantasy, Fiction, and Mystical Storytelling.