2 evaluation essay (movie)

The film is about five young sisters from Turkey that spends summer in a house on the beach.
One summer they go to play with some boys, and immoral rumors of them start spreading along
the village. When their grandma and their uncle are aware, they force them to merry unknown
men against their will, making them not enjoy their freedom and prohibiting them of performing
their role in society. Anyways this girls start realizing that that's not what they want and start
fighting for their freedom.

From ethnocentrism perspective

First we have to know what ethnocentrism means, it refers to the idea in which one culture is
above others and this one can be used to compare how good or bad other cultures are. It defends
the idea of better and worst cultures.

From this point of view the acts that are develop in the film, like arranged marriages, are
completely correct, as the religious believes that they culture makes them have defends that what
they are doing is the best they can do for the girls education and for them being better persons in
the future. They also think that in this way they can help the girls to stop the rumors that people
have been spreading.

Along the film the uncle and the grandma make many choices thinking it is the best they can do
and they don't see that this measures could be bad or that there could be better ones. Some of this
choices are, the progressive augmenting of security in the house girls are living to them not trying
to get more freedom as the uncle see this as an act of disobeying and not respecting the culture
making them seen as bad persons. Other example is when their grandma take them to a walk all
along the village for people to see that them are searching for husband and that they are not
disobeying girls and that they respect the culture.

As we see all this acts are influenced by their religion, their culture and the way of thinking they
have. They don't feel that any other religion is better so they don't give the girls the freedom of
choosing what to believe and what to defend as they see that their religion is the correct one and
the one everyone should follow.
From cultural relativism perspective
In first place I am going to explain what cultural relativism is, it refers to the view of the idea that
there are no superior cultures or religions, just different ones, it defend that there are all equal, no
one is above, and they have no need to compare them, this allows us to judge other cultures
objectively.

From this point of view acts made in the film can be judge from an objective perspective in
which freedom and rights of people are more important that the fact of being marry to someone
just for be good-looking in the society they live in, as happens in the film. Nowadays almost all
of the population defends that people should choose what they believe and should have the
chance of defending they ideas.

Having this present we can criticize the choices made on the film by the uncle and the grandma,
as the ones mentioned before, and we can also defend the things the girls do. For example, when
one of the sisters loose her virginity with a random guy for not to be married as if her is not pure
they don't want her. Also the youngest sister learn to drive and steal the money of the family to
go away and get out of the hell they were in, taking other sister with her in the day of the
wedding. And the sister that for supporting the marriage she start to drink alcohol. All this is
totally compressible as they want their freedom and to live their life as the child's they are.

From my point of view, even though I think it is clear on the rest of the essay, I think this girls
make the right choice when they scape, and I comprehend the things the other ones do. Also I
think that the uncle and grandma didn't have to have the choice over the life of the girls and less
the choice of taking out their freedom and implementing them what they should believe as they
should have the opportunity of choosing it and doing what they want with their life’s when they
want.