http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TweU77cDrgE
I find it rather unbelievable that viewers of this film find this film's view of Turkish people believable. This film's depiction of Turks is one sided to the extent of being racist. To the extent that one thinks it was not a coincidence and was financed by a lobby that had an agenda.
It may have been understandable if it was only the prison guards and policeman, and the soldiers etc, who were represented as pigs. OK, in that case we see the world from the eyes of the individual who is quashed by the legal system and enforcement of a state for a petty crime of smuggling some weed... It would be OK if the target here was the "State".
However in this movie any Turk is a bad guy, filthy guy, a rapist, a liar ...
How could any audience find this believable? To think that this movie got two Oscars, one for screenplay...
Anyway the link above is an interview with the guy that wrote the book which Oliver Stone's screenplay is based on. You can listen to his version of the story where Turks are just like any other people and their "turkish prison" is about as bad as any other prison in the world...
I find it rather unbelievable that viewers of this film find this film's view of Turkish people believable. This film's depiction of Turks is one sided to the extent of being racist. To the extent that one thinks it was not a coincidence and was financed by a lobby that had an agenda.
It may have been understandable if it was only the prison guards and policeman, and the soldiers etc, who were represented as pigs. OK, in that case we see the world from the eyes of the individual who is quashed by the legal system and enforcement of a state for a petty crime of smuggling some weed... It would be OK if the target here was the "State".
However in this movie any Turk is a bad guy, filthy guy, a rapist, a liar ...
How could any audience find this believable? To think that this movie got two Oscars, one for screenplay...
Anyway the link above is an interview with the guy that wrote the book which Oliver Stone's screenplay is based on. You can listen to his version of the story where Turks are just like any other people and their "turkish prison" is about as bad as any other prison in the world...