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FILM REVIEW

Ayla: The
Daughter of War
is a real story of
never-ending
anticipation
Shafin Saif | Published: 00:00, May 23,2021

 
 

Ayla: The Daughter of War is 2017 movie

directed by Can Ulkay. Set in the 1950s Korea
war, the Turkish movie is he story of
compassion and love. Despite being abominable
for creating inauspicious atrocities, sometimes
wars beget the altruistic inherent nature of
people, writes Shafin Saif

The movie is a real-life story of Turkish Army

Sergeant Suleyman and his adopted daughter
Ayla during the Korean War in the 1950s.
Followed by a documentary Kore Ayla (2010) the
movie is directed by Can Ulkay. It was pre-
screened for the first time in Turkey at Grand
Pera Emek Movie Theatre by the Beyoğlu
Municipality on the 60th anniversary of the
friendship between Turkey and the Republic of
Korea. Prominent actors like Çetin Tekindor,
Ismail Hacioglu, Kyung-jin Lee were some of
the major casts of this movie.

The movie belongs to the war and drama genre.

Wars always created devastating experiences,
mankind has ever gone through. But there is a
saying by famous Roman philosopher Seneca,
‘Wherever there is a human being, there is an
opportunity of kindnesses.’ Indeed, this movie
is a perfect portrayal of that thought.

After the baleful incident of World War II,

mankind was striving for peace but instead of
that, the triumphant allied forces started
colliding with one another. The communist bloc
led by the USSR and the capitalist bloc led by
the USA indulged themselves into another
struggle for power. It resulted in the cold war.

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This cold war was initiated by waging the

Korean War. Afterwards, these two blocks
fought several proxy wars against each other in
many parts of the world to establish hegemony
as well as their ideology. Alike other wars, the
Korean war was nothing but a story of human
suffering, detachment of families, confiscation
of people from the ancestral home. This war
ultimately resulted in the division of Korea.

Again, likewise other wars it originated

numerous tale of compassion. In popular
culture movies like The Pianist (2002) or Saving
Private Ryan (1997) told us the story of survival
as well as saving a life. This movie is no
different from those. Moreover, it’s a real story
of a soldier’s struggle to protect the kid he
found from the haystack. During the whole
running time of 124 minutes, scenarios are
sharply screen played by Yigit Guralp which will
never let your eye move an inch.

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While North Korea invaded South Korea in the

1950s, Turkey decided to send its troops to aid
South Korea. Under the command of General
Tahsin Yazici, 5090 soldiers were sent to the
Republic of Korea. Sergeant Suleyman Dilbirligi,
aged 25, was one of the thousands of Turkish
soldiers who went to Korea willingly. Suleyman
was a rattling guy who wanted to marry a pretty
girl and settling with a standard livelihood. But
to find adventure he acquiesced to that mission
with his companion Ali who is another central
figure of the movie.

One night while the Turkish unit was returning

to the base after a bloody fight, Suleyman
stumbled into the ground and noticed a bit of
movement from the bush. Being stuck between
two choices either its enemy or an animal,
Suleyman found a five-year-old girl from the
bushes shivering with cold and utmost fear.
Between the atrocities of the war, the girl was
abandoned by his family and the whole village
was massacred.

Amidst of war, it was impossible to find the

child’s family so that they brought her to the
camp and gave her a Turkish name Ayla which
means like the moon. Soon, Ayla became the
apple of the eye of everyone living in the army
camp. She started calling Suleyman Baba, which
is a father in Turkish and his other colleagues
became her uncles. That’s how the bonafide
generous love story initiates. Though Suleyman
was not his biological father despite his
affection towards her was more than that.

Being a paramount symbol of a father Suleyman

took care of Ayla for 15 months. Then the
trouble started which will lead him to a
dilemma either returning to Turkey or living in
Korea.

Getting stuck in this labyrinth, will Suleyman

become able to be reunited with Ayla? How long
they have to wait for each other? To know the
answers we need to watch that movie. Indeed, it
was a true example of love, kindness and
humanity.

Despite being abominable for creating

inauspicious atrocities, sometimes wars beget
the altruistic inherent nature of people. This
movie is not different from that. A soldier task
is not always taking life on the battlefield,
sometimes saving becomes more exigent. The
famous movies from the war genre Hacksaw
Ridge (2016) may be cited as an example.

Nevertheless, the following movie delineated

the strong affinity between father and children
distressingly. For instance, in the movie Train
to Busan (2016), where a father ran on the
whole movie to protect her daughter from the
zombies. Similarly, here, the protagonist ran all
along to save his beloved. It was not only about
protecting the child’s life the latter half of the
movie portrayed a scenario of anticipation.

The movie got an IMDB rating of 8.4/10 and was

selected as the Turkish entry for the Best
Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy
Awards. Although it was not nominated it
placed itself as one of the best films in the joint
production of South Korea and Turkey. The
movie has been appreciated in both of the
countries. When you will look at the list of top-
rated Korean or Turkish movie, you are going to
find it on the top tier.

Shafin Saif is a student of Jahangirnagar

University.

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