SYNOPSICS
Fighter (2007) is a Danish,Turkish,English,Chinese movie. Natasha Arthy has directed this movie. Semra Turan,Nima Nabipour,Cyron Melville,Molly Blixt Egelind are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2007. Fighter (2007) is considered one of the best Action,Drama movie in India and around the world.
Aicha, a high-school student, is a passionate kung fu fighter. Her Turkish parents expect her to get good grades so she can get into medical school, like her brother Ali. But school doesn't inspire her. Defying her family, Aicha starts secretly training at a professional, co-ed kung fu club. A boy, Emil, helps Aicha train for the club championship and they fall in love. But the rules of life are not as simple as the rules of kung fu, and Aicha is forced to decide who she is and what she wants.
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Martial arts and Turkish immigrants in Denmark
A beautiful and touching movie that deserves a wider viewing than it is likely to get. Semra Turan plays Aicha, a second generation Turkish immigrant, who tries to break the mold. Neither entirely at home with her moderately conservative Muslim family, nor with her liberal Danish friends, Aicha's martial arts experience becomes a fight to find herself and have the strength to allow herself to be who she wants to be in spite of both family and friends. Director Natasha Arthy manages to balance introspection and narrative so that it has depth without becoming ponderous philosophical discourse, and drawing on Xian Gao's choreography skills pays off in spectacular fight sequences. In the end, however, it is Semra Turan's stunning debut performance that gives this movie spirit. Raw charisma and requisite martial arts skills are complimented by heart to make her personal drama believable. Well worth your while.
Racing speed and deep dignity
When you are in a gloomy or depressed mood, go watch this film. It shows a lot of beauty and joy in a very simple everyday setting, and it is very encouraging, in particular from a feminist and a humanist perspective. When you know both the Turkish language and either the Danish or the German language, go watch the film in any case. Half of the dialog is Danish in the original, synchronized to German in the translated version, the other half Turkish, subtitled in Danish or German, respectively. When i watched it in Mannheim, Germany, the reaction of the Turkish-speaking audience proved that there must be a lot of humor in the Turkish dialog, which, deplorably, mostly escaped me, being only imperfectly rendered in the subtitles. Still, the film is interesting even if you lack knowledge of the Turkish. Esthetically, the movie is playing a lot on the theme of speed and slowness. On first sight, there is lots of corporeal movement fast as lightning, making it a quick, an agitated film. In particular, even though this is a Kung Fu movie, watch out for the running scenes, beautifully expressing a wealth of emotions. But there are quite a few very slow, emotionally intense scenes, too. And above all, the characters develop at a much slower pace than you would expect in a drama about the coming of age; still, there is some movement in the characters to: Closely watch the villain Omar, whose part and acting i liked very much. The contrast of speed and stillness nicely contributes to the depiction of human rage and dignity - shown at once, in the same characters, at the same time.
Gripping drama
When I took my seat in the cinema I was in a cool mood and didn't plan on changing it. But this movie is a dramatic powerhouse. I was all in sweat and needed a shower afterward. So what have we? Theoretically a coming of age story of a teenage Turkish girl living in Copenhagen, Denmark. It came to my mind soon that the plot seemed pretty much completely borrowed from "Bend it like Beckham", where we had an Indian girl playing football and spoiling the wedding of her sister. Here we have it transferred to a Turkish girl spoiling her brother's wedding by doing Kung Fu. And we have a love story and a competition of course, too. After I accepted this, this really turned out to be a gripping, emotional drama and it shows off some beautiful Kung Fu (I'm not an expert, though). The lead actress Semra Turan is not only Denmark's female champion but she also delivers an excellent performance, so that it appears to be safe to assume that we have quite some autobiographic impressions here taking into account that this is her first movie and that she has no education as an actress. Rest of the supporting cast is okay, camera good, Kung Fu intense. Sidenotes: - The male Turkish audience showed respect so that they must have done something right. - The audience burst into cheers when our heroine finally fought back and attacked the boys who were gravely beating up her brother in revenge. - Xian Gao, a Chinese cinematic Kung Fu instructor/actor (Hidden Tiger, Crouching Dragon) played the lead role's master If you get the chance to see this in cinema do it, you'll probably have a good and intense experience and I don't know if this works on small screen as well
Not Bend it like Beckham
This is NOT like Bend It Like Beckham. In this movie Aicha's father never accepts her Kung Fu, never cares about her happiness. She ends up concealing it from him. He finally accepts her but never shows any interest in her happiness. In Beckham the father finally fully and enthusiastically accepts his daughter's football and her happiness. In Fighter everything is blamed on Aicha even though she is loyal and the troubles at her brother's wedding are not her fault. She gets the blame anyway. She gets blamed for her brother's being mugged by his true love's brother and friends. In Beckham the wedding is not ruined or disrupted by football. The male footballers in contrast welcome Jesminder's playing. They are impressed by her getting on a team. In Fighter Omar is angry and offended by her Kung Fu training. He tries to undermine her. I could go on, but the differences make this comparison problematic at best. The attraction between Aicha and Emil is kept within the confines of Aicha's conservative upbringing. She likes Emil a lot and at the end makes it very clear to him she wishes to have a relationship with him but on her terms. She never rejects her family's values even as she continues Kung Fu. She is happy to finish runner up in the competition and gaining Omar's respect. Does anyone know who sings the song "Shadow" during the end credits?
Surprisingly beautiful movie
When I went to watch this movie my expectations were really low, but I was pleasantly surprised. I thought I was going to watch a boring teen-flick, BUT in fact the plot is interesting and well executed, the acting was somewhat convincing - especially from Melville who really shows his talent in this movie, and the fight scenes were - for a low budget movie - very well done . I think this movie deserves a broader audience than it has received. It is a movie, which can be seen by the whole family - maybe not the smallest of kids, since it contains some rather rough scenes. A movie about love, and the problems that can occur, when you go against your family traditions. Yes, the movie is very much like "Bend it like Beckham", but I actually think this movie pulls it off better.