What can I say about Land of the Fathers? Overall, I think it was a pretty good film. The story portrayed in the film was very touching. After seeing the struggles that Bayan and Ata went through to bring Bayan's father home, you can't help but feel for them in the end. Seeing the sadness in Bayan's face when he sees his father's name on the communal grave was heartbreaking. I did like the ending of the film when Bayan and Ata were reunited though. It would have been a bit depressing if after all that they had been through, they were left alone.
The only thing about this film that bothered me a little bit was that I had some technical issues when I tried to watch it. The images kept freezing or breaking up and the audio was cutting in and out, but this was only for the first part of the movie. I kind of felt like I was missing some of the crucial scenes that set the tone for the rest of the film, but once the technical problems were resolved, I was able to figure out what was going on.
Personally, I have to say that I was drawn in more by Mongol and Borat than I was with this film, but the story being told in the film was very interesting and I did enjoy it more than I expected to.
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The production values of the Soviet-era films are inevitably going to be worse than what we saw the first two weeks--no way around it. A challenge for us as critical film viewers is to meet these films halfway, as I think you've done here.....
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