Good British, good Australians, good Turks and bad Greeks in a simple minded approach of the really turbulent and complicated post WWI period in Asia Minor. War is a crime committed by the ruling classes of societies so they can pursue their own interests sacrificing their own people.
The movie has all the ingredients needed to become a good movie about how people independent of their nationalities can keep their humanity even in brutal periods (like a war) forgive, respect and help each other. But since it chooses to depict only one of the nations involved in this war (the Greeks) as the bad guys it looses completely its point.
And no this didn't bother me as you may think , because I am Greek. I like Turkish people and I see them as a brother nation and it's true that in this specific period they did a defensive war against an encouraged by UK and France Greek imperialism. So I would do the same criticism if any other people was depicted negatively.
The movie has all the ingredients needed to become a good movie about how people independent of their nationalities can keep their humanity even in brutal periods (like a war) forgive, respect and help each other. But since it chooses to depict only one of the nations involved in this war (the Greeks) as the bad guys it looses completely its point.
And no this didn't bother me as you may think , because I am Greek. I like Turkish people and I see them as a brother nation and it's true that in this specific period they did a defensive war against an encouraged by UK and France Greek imperialism. So I would do the same criticism if any other people was depicted negatively.