The main character annoyed me so so so much and I am just not even going to touch on that because she had me visibly sighing and rolling my eyes. Berivan switches between cliches of silent dutiful immigrant to violent immigrant which was an interesting critique on Germany's political discussion about how people can be pushed towards the edge of society based on the maltreatment they recieve. Berivan also fills another cliche of her talking too much and having too much emotion, but she adverts from the hurtful stereotype because she speaks very well and has perfect German, where Alice is so traumatized that she can not speak. This is a very subtle criticism about being violent against a system that pushes refugees around and treats them like less than human. There was also a conflict between being silent and talking too much within an institutionalized violence where all the characters in the film are subjected to a horrible levels of trauma when integrating into German society (which is represented through the religious orphanage). All the characters are just kids and are very fragile, which shows how messed up the system is and how it perpetuates hurt and aggression. Three words to describe this film is ghosts, immigrants, and desire. Alice and Berivan definitely had so much romantic tension (specifically the impersonation scene). Berivan's story is barely touched upon except the fact that she is Kurdish. It was a powerful moment when she said she was not Turkish but was Kurdish due to Turkey's history of erasing the existence of Kurdish people.
The main character annoyed me so so so much and I am just not even going to touch on that because she had me visibly sighing and rolling my eyes. Berivan switches between cliches of silent dutiful immigrant to violent immigrant which was an interesting critique on Germany's political discussion about how people can be pushed towards the edge of society based on the maltreatment they recieve. Berivan also fills another cliche of her talking too much and having too much emotion, but she adverts from the hurtful stereotype because she speaks very well and has perfect German, where Alice is so traumatized that she can not speak. This is a very subtle criticism about being violent against a system that pushes refugees around and treats them like less than human. There was also a conflict between being silent and talking too much within an institutionalized violence where all the characters in the film are subjected to a horrible levels of trauma when integrating into German society (which is represented through the religious orphanage). All the characters are just kids and are very fragile, which shows how messed up the system is and how it perpetuates hurt and aggression. Three words to describe this film is ghosts, immigrants, and desire. Alice and Berivan definitely had so much romantic tension (specifically the impersonation scene). Berivan's story is barely touched upon except the fact that she is Kurdish. It was a powerful moment when she said she was not Turkish but was Kurdish due to Turkey's history of erasing the existence of Kurdish people.
