Muhsin80

Why doesn't Simon say that the PKK in the east of Turkey is the reason why those parts of the city is demolished...why isn't he mentioning the PKK made trenches in the streets to stop the police for keeping the peace in the streets? In these parts of Turkey if the police wasn't present the civilians (also Kurdish civilians) were asking why the government isn't there to support the people. Simon. Also, as the Turkish government shouldn't mangle what the people should eat or drink, isn't his to take side if the alcoholic beverages should be made illegal or not. Most of the studies actually conclude that alcohol is a hard drugs, but it's tolerated because it's culturally grown in the habits of people...What I think is that Simon travels, but isn't open for other cultural habits.

Worst Bilginer movie I've ever watched, it's really a waste of time. They should refund me and give me money for the lost time. I watched until the end with a hope that they would eventually turn the story to a good end...This is also so atypical Turkish. Even the story devil, first human....isn't Islamic motivated....It is as if somebody at Netflix-US wrote a story and gave it to Bilginer and said make this movie....

Well I see Gertrude Bell one of the main persons who's responsible for all the violence in the Middle East. So I don't like G.B. presented as if she was worried about the people in these regions.... I agree with Subxerogravity that wrote;

So they took letters that Bell wrote and inserts from her journals and had Swinton narrate over footage from the Ottoman Empire or reenactments. Either would most likely be correct thanks to the advancements of cinematic technology of today. Adding to this are dramatization interviews with actors playing people that Bell knew in her time and could tell us about her.

Think I like this better than Queen of the Desert which stared Nicole Kidman. Both movies are important to tell the story of this important woman but of course, Letters to Baghdad portrayed a real Gertrude Bell. Queen of the Desert portrayed her as being on this Pei stool (Does not help that she's being played by a hot movie star), but I like how Letters to Baghdad more so pointed out the flaws, flaws that I think help let us know the type of woman it takes to do what Bell did.