"The Blue Girl" starts with a great scene. Somewhere in a remote village in the Kurdish mountains, a small boy is performing tricks with a football. The villagers are cheering and applauding while he tries to equal the famous performances of Diego Maradona. But after a while, a villager pushes him aside because his cows are passing through.
Unfortunately, the rest of the film is less impressive. The story of village children working hard to create a level football playing field in the mountainous area is nice. The film is full of old fashioned optimism: everyone is smiling, cooperating, being nice to each other and having a good time. But this is also the weak point: the positive vibes are a bit too much, and the story is bit too thin. The beautiful mountains and the colourful villagers are nice, but not enough to carry the film.
There is a bit of social criticism: the girls are not allowed to play football, although they want to. This could have been a nice storyline to give the screenplay some depth, but the writers didn't use it. A pity, because some plot development would have been very useful to lift the film from the level of a simple children's story. Maybe the maker didn't have more in mind. But in that case, he should have made a short film instead of a full-length feature.
Unfortunately, the rest of the film is less impressive. The story of village children working hard to create a level football playing field in the mountainous area is nice. The film is full of old fashioned optimism: everyone is smiling, cooperating, being nice to each other and having a good time. But this is also the weak point: the positive vibes are a bit too much, and the story is bit too thin. The beautiful mountains and the colourful villagers are nice, but not enough to carry the film.
There is a bit of social criticism: the girls are not allowed to play football, although they want to. This could have been a nice storyline to give the screenplay some depth, but the writers didn't use it. A pity, because some plot development would have been very useful to lift the film from the level of a simple children's story. Maybe the maker didn't have more in mind. But in that case, he should have made a short film instead of a full-length feature.
