American Sniper is a the last Clint Eastwood movie, nominated for no less than 6 Oscars. It is a war movie, a biography of "the most lethal sniper of US Army's history". You remember the 2009 Oscar award for Best Film, Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker, isn't it? Iraq, war, bombs, danger, warrior's psychical condition, etc? It was neutral, and it won because of that, even if Avatar was much better and much entertaining. I felt it hadn't "message", you know? It wasn't a positive thing, it was too … [Read more...]
A few facts about Turkey and Turkish politics – part two
In the first part of this topic, you were briefed of Turks origins as people and The Decline and Fall of the Ottoman Empire of which I'm going to finish here. After the Young Turks revolution and the second Constitutional Era, in the Empire major reforming attitudes were shown, the Cretans declared union with Greece, the Albanians declared the Latin Alphabet as the standard script and the Italians declared war. It happened in 1919. Seeing how easy it was, the Balkan League attacked … [Read more...]