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Turtle Can Fly Angus Xie, Honda Zhu, Julie Pan, Kent Lin, Vivien Yang, Zora Hsiang

Turtle Can Fly Angus Xie, Honda Zhu, Julie Pan, Kent Lin, Vivien Yang, Zora Hsiang. OUTLINE. Introduction Background Information Relation – Children Symbols – Illusion Film Technique Extra Information Q&A. BACKGROUND INFORMATION Zora. Background Information – Director. Bahman Ghobadi

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Turtle Can Fly Angus Xie, Honda Zhu, Julie Pan, Kent Lin, Vivien Yang, Zora Hsiang

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  1. Turtle Can FlyAngus Xie, Honda Zhu, Julie Pan, Kent Lin, Vivien Yang, Zora Hsiang

  2. OUTLINE • Introduction • Background Information • Relation – Children • Symbols – Illusion • Film Technique • Extra Information • Q&A

  3. BACKGROUND INFORMATIONZora

  4. Background Information – Director • Bahman Ghobadi • Kurdish Iranian filmmaker • Realtistic • Ethnic Minority – the Kurds

  5. Background Information – Film Iraq, Kurdistan, 2003 Invasion of Iraq

  6. Iraq, Kurdistan

  7. Kurdistan • “The land of Kurds” • Plateau & Mountain • After WWI – Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria • After Persian Golf War –

  8. TheKurds • Iranian, Sunni Muslim • Own Language and Culture • Kurdistan, Nomadic • After WWI – promised to create Kurdistan as a countryOil found in territory → 

  9. TheKurds • Early 20th Century: Nationalism • Oppressed, especially in Iraq and Turkey • Genocide in Iraq, Saddam Hussein –* Iran-Iraq War: Halabja Poison Gas Attack* Persian Golf War – Kurdish Safe-Haven (Northern Iraq ) • * 1996 incursion into “Safe-haven”

  10. RELATION – CHILDRENAngus & Honda

  11. Refugees Orphans To Survive To Support Family Cooperate with Each Other Naturally Forms Micro Society Generates PowerRelationship SocietyFormedByChildren

  12. Care

  13. Trust

  14. Responsibility

  15. Responsibility Empathy Trust Love Care Sympathy

  16. Children – Power • Satellite takes charge other children. • Help them find jobs, survive. • Others look up to him. • Knowledge. • Satellite dish. • Information.

  17. HowChildrenSurvive • Clear mine fields • More crippled, More expert • Endless vicious circle • Mine would, eventually, GO OFF.

  18. HowChildrenSurvive • Clear artillery shells • 1 USD= 1169 IQD • A dud might explode. • Show the intensity of warfare. • Knowing the extortion, to play or to die.

  19. Children’sattitude • Having fun in the most un-laughable situation. • Naiveness • Optimism • Comradeship • Support each other.

  20. SYMBOL – ILLUSIONJulie & Vivien

  21. Symbolscomparison • Satellite • Appearance

  22. Superior ability and knowledge

  23. Pro-American, mediahegemony (thedish)

  24. -The bike

  25. Red fish • The cure of blind eyes Different meanings in China and Iran * Iran: one of the seven symbols of Nowruz , the Iranian New Yea * China: propitious/success

  26. Water (amniotic fluid/lake) • The place where life starts and ends

  27. mine/tank/guns • The objects that ruin the Kurdish kids’ life • Exchanging mine for food • for dish • for guns • Satelitte living in a tank

  28. Ria- the weak connection between Iraq and Kurd • Agrin • The mother(the child/Kurdish) • Asking for leaving • Choosing suicide • Rejectin Satellite

  29. Symbols as Illusion • Series of disappointments ILLUSIONS in regard to America’s image 1) USA mine: - Satellite get injured: collapse of optimism “You kept saying USA until you fell on USA mine.” - Broken bike 2) Red fish: fake appearance

  30. Irony • Satellite: optimism • 1:00:13~1:00:50 American army: ‘It’s the end of injustice, misfortune and hardship. We are your best friends and brothers. Those against us are our enemies. We will make this country a paradise. We are here to take away your sorrows. We are the best in the world.’

  31. Juxtaposition: people on the hill, Hengov and the child - America: fallacy and hype - Kurdish people: causalities

  32. 2) 1:29:45~1:31:00 Satellite walks away without saying any words when the American army arrive 3) Use of color Beginning: colorful the film is shown in a Gloomy weather Ending: dreary

  33. FILM TECHNIQUEKent

  34. Film Technique • the scene Agrin goes to the high cliff  main motif • the person in the upside-down reflection in the lake (throwing a stone or a rock?) • Soviet Montage  juxtaposition • suicide  to atone her sins • Mannerism  landscape in a high-angle shot • the jumping scene vs. the film title • mine vs. turtle

  35. the telephoto lens to get Agrin’s close-up • using the nonprofessional performers  to prove the reality of the local society • realism vs. reality • hand-held shots  documentary • bird’s-eye shots • high-contrast angle shots • child’s eye-level shots

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