Very Good War Movie Depicting All Facets

Rating: 10/10 (25 April 2015)

I had little knowledge of this movie before going to see it. I went in with a little skepticism. Almost all movies I see now have some type of agenda. Pro-War, Anti-war, Pro-Liberal, Pro-Muslim, Pro-Christian, Pro-Conservative, etc...everything has an agenda. This movie, I felt, had none, except for a little victimization of muslims. It was simply about history and facts and just one father's search for his sons. In that search, we come across some Turks who have lost as much as he had. The movie doesn't focus on politics. Its just about the people in the aftermath. Now Im not talking about the relatives of suicide bombers or bad people/terrorists, but just regular people and their relatives that fight in the wars that their country asks them to fight in. There were a few points where the female Muslim defended her beating by saying she hit him first, but that was a Hollywood "bone" where the Muslim brother was justified in beating the woman. The movie ultimately shows the muslims as being victimized by the greeks and the British Empire, but it is what it is. Great movie.