I've lost all respect for this film
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SealedCargo β 6 years ago(April 18, 2019 06:35 AM)
instead of going in tangents let us know what the documentary said
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ewaf58 β 10 years ago(May 22, 2015 03:15 PM)
It's a technically good film but should have been presented as a work of complete fiction. However even if marketed as complete fiction it would still of been harmful and dishonest towards Turkish people.
Its only get out of jail card - so to speak - would have been to have it set in some fictional state.
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siukong β 10 years ago(June 18, 2015 12:29 PM)
It's interesting. Most people believe that knowing a movie is "based on a true story" will make it resonate more. This must be why these movies always tout that claim. Studies have shown, though, that it actually makes no difference at all. We react just as strongly to complete fiction. I wish that more people knew this, so we wouldn't have that sense of forced verisimilitude.
I wonder how many people just blindly accept these stories as the truth, when in reality they're mostly BS. In the worst cases, the only thing true about them are the most general of facts (the one-sentence summary). -
SealedCargo β 6 years ago(September 28, 2019 10:46 PM)
Oliver Stone won an Oscar for it, so people assume that Hollywood read the book it's adapted from and that it has some truth. but back then no one knew Oliver Stone fabricates everything. the funniest thing is when the dad blames Nixon for his son's arrest. and then compares smuggling a load of hashish to his (the dad's) generation drinking booze. that's always been the weakest loophole, comparing a few stiff drinks after a day's work with dropping acid and smoking pot all day, and doing coke and meth and hash and on and on.
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SealedCargo β 6 years ago(September 28, 2019 10:43 PM)
it was also far too EASY for a movie about a living nightmare. he makes instant friends with three cool guys who give him heroin basically and it just didn't have the kind of vibe of a more intense prison flick.
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β 6 years ago(September 28, 2019 10:46 PM)I LOST ALL RESPECT WHEN I FOUND OUT THE MOVIES ARENT REAL?β¦SERIOUSLY,KIDS WE NEED O TALK ABOUT SANTA CLAUS.
βI do this real moron thing, and it's called thinking. And apparently I'm not a very good American because I like to form my own opinions.β