While some reviewers cannot see beyond the work of the actors and
director in a project, others pay to escape life and be immersed in a
world we cannot otherwise visit.
The Ottoman Lieutenant is a grand, sweeping movie that has war as its
backdrop. This movie is not a documentary. The artists who worked to
bring us this bit of fiction immersed themselves beautifully within the
project, and their hard work stands out, much like the Merchant Ivory
films. The movie itself does not ask for a review of its accuracy, it
simply asks that we put aside the trappings of our present environment
to imagine a different vista.
If you are interested in enjoying beauty for its own sake, then you
will enjoy this film. If you are still intent on reliving the
atrocities of the past, then l suggest you stick to documentaries, and
only those with which you wholeheartedly agree.
- Chipper F. Xavier, Esq.
