Divining for movie awards

Rating: 7/10 (30 May 2015)

So Conner is your typical clichéd Australian farmer working land where it might not rain for two years and has the ability to do water divining (find underground water by using a couple of sticks held in his hand).
He has lost his sons to the Gallipoli campaign in WWI and his wife, in her grief, kills herself. So now he heads to Turkey to find the remains of his 3 sons.
On one hand this movie is brilliant. It shows the the war from the side of the Turks, and how they suffered during and after WWI. They also show the Turks are honourable people worthy of respect.
This movie also explores why we need to remember and honour our war dead.
But it also is a little silly where our hero seems to have mystical diving powers, not just for finding water but finding his children. This takes away any real motivation for the character and instead the Conner "just knows". This aspect cheapens the story and the movie.
However still a good movie that is worth seeing.