Truly Dreadful Film

i must have seen a different film!!

Good movie but grossly overrated

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

The Georgia-Abkhazia War of the early 1990's is an historically underrecognized bloodbath born of a barbaric struggle over traditional land rights and ethnic freedom. The extraordinary film "Tangerines" chronicles the grim atrocities of this vicious Eastern European conflict. At the same time, however, the story brings to bear the uniquely insane folly of a civil war. In this case it is one in which many of the combatants on both sides are unaware of the history of the people tens of thousands of them will die fighting for.Lembit Ulfsak is remarkable as Ivo, an elderly woodworker and tangerine grower. Ivo remains behind in a small village while the rest of his family have fled to Estonia. After the war literally comes to his front door, he winds up taking in and caring for a pair of soldiers morbidly wounded in a deadly gun fight. The two men are bitter enemies. Each wants to finish the job on the other. In his own quiet manner, Ivo strives to inject humanity into a crucible of hate and resentment. "Tangerines" may well leave you asking, "Were it this simple?" Or perhaps, as Director Zaza Urushadze impresses here, the question will rather be this alternative."Why CAN'T it be this simple?"

First I like movies with a few actor for example 4 5 five main actor. second I like this movie because I hate war in all of kind. this movie was like so soft peace in a green area with an exprienced old man. of course I predicted that Nika maybe will be killed but it was very great movie from Georgia.

I'm not aware of the political, historical, religious & ethnic differences between the people depicted in the movie, but I can still relate to them. I mean not in the literal sense but just on human level.I think, almost always, majority of the people who are fighting a war are not personally affected by its cause. It's something that's just inculcated in them. They are taught to hate the opposite side.This movie, with a handful of characters, in just so little words, in such a short time, makes you realize that you can empathize with anyone. You should just have the will to do so. Humanity is capable of so much love that there can be no place left for hatred, but sadly we're too busy fighting, every day, every where, in one or another part of the world.This is a captivating movie from the first frame to the last. The background score uplifts and complements the mood of the movie so beautifully. The acting is sublime, the direction is top notch. The story is really simple and all the charm is in the storytelling.It makes you question yourself. Whatever your hate is, if you can learn to empathize, then you've lived a life.

It was one of the best films I've ever watched due it's hologram of simplicity and depth at the same time. The soundtrack that was used during the film was really deep with its pauses, reflecting the unknowness that cover the human nature and at the same time tapping into the original human good will but not original sin. Watching it reminds how the world doesn't matter and most of our values that we have created are only to protect the "us" from the "them" by engaging in a mercantilist kinds of way. What is religion? who is religious? what is war? does it matter to live? and so on are only parts of the questions that were put forward in the movie. The theme of death and religion is approached with eyes of a simple farmer living in a stranded village where the war for Ivo, to put it in his words, " nobody's war"