(NOTE: contains a few minor spoilers.)
Roos and Rana are two good friends. Roos is a somewhat myopian, alternative girl grown up with her mother only with whom she doesn't have a good relation. Rana is a somewhat conservative, decent girl grown up in a traditional Turkish family in which her brothers take care for her. The two girls are bosom friends and share the same feeling: they're fed up with the rules and repression of their parents! After a spectacular escape from their daily school life, they manage to make the long trip to Istanbul using money stolen from Rana's parents. During the travel various problems arise and only with each others help the girls manage to arrive in Istanbul.
However, some things still go wrong and they find out some confronting truth related to their parents. The parents of both girls are from a different culture (The Netherlands is a multicultural society), and the parents have to team up to catch the girls. During their various efforts they learn to understand each other's culture better.
The multicultural aspect, where 2 cultures meet each other, is an important part of the movie. In my opinion the best aspect. It is partly because of this aspect that there's quite a lot humor in the film as funny things happen, although there's also a mix of drama. On another layer, i find it interesting how this movie shows how different backgrounds and views lead to different opinions: especially between the girls, though in less extend the families as well, one notices the conflict. They're forced to invoke consensus which doesn't always go well, but the benefits are there in the end.
I almost never found the movie boring because there was always action or problems and the emotions were strong. My only point of criticism is some aspects are overdone (Roos' hair) and the end: all the problems between the parents and the children were somehow over. While some problems were indeed solved and while i can imagine that after such a long trip confronted with the "harsh rules of adventure life" one would be glad to get back in the "protected state of childhood" doing so doesn't mean the actual problems are solved. At first glance this gave me the feeling the movie was somehow "not finished". I was wondering "what happens now?". I understood later the main point wasn't the conflict: the conflict was the thing which got the adventurous ball rolling.
Futhermore i cannot judge on the acting since i do not have much knowledge about this art. I can only say i found it realistic enough. Overal, for an adventure / telefilm, the movie was well worth it: one of the better telefilms in Dutch movie history.
Roos and Rana are two good friends. Roos is a somewhat myopian, alternative girl grown up with her mother only with whom she doesn't have a good relation. Rana is a somewhat conservative, decent girl grown up in a traditional Turkish family in which her brothers take care for her. The two girls are bosom friends and share the same feeling: they're fed up with the rules and repression of their parents! After a spectacular escape from their daily school life, they manage to make the long trip to Istanbul using money stolen from Rana's parents. During the travel various problems arise and only with each others help the girls manage to arrive in Istanbul.
However, some things still go wrong and they find out some confronting truth related to their parents. The parents of both girls are from a different culture (The Netherlands is a multicultural society), and the parents have to team up to catch the girls. During their various efforts they learn to understand each other's culture better.
The multicultural aspect, where 2 cultures meet each other, is an important part of the movie. In my opinion the best aspect. It is partly because of this aspect that there's quite a lot humor in the film as funny things happen, although there's also a mix of drama. On another layer, i find it interesting how this movie shows how different backgrounds and views lead to different opinions: especially between the girls, though in less extend the families as well, one notices the conflict. They're forced to invoke consensus which doesn't always go well, but the benefits are there in the end.
I almost never found the movie boring because there was always action or problems and the emotions were strong. My only point of criticism is some aspects are overdone (Roos' hair) and the end: all the problems between the parents and the children were somehow over. While some problems were indeed solved and while i can imagine that after such a long trip confronted with the "harsh rules of adventure life" one would be glad to get back in the "protected state of childhood" doing so doesn't mean the actual problems are solved. At first glance this gave me the feeling the movie was somehow "not finished". I was wondering "what happens now?". I understood later the main point wasn't the conflict: the conflict was the thing which got the adventurous ball rolling.
Futhermore i cannot judge on the acting since i do not have much knowledge about this art. I can only say i found it realistic enough. Overal, for an adventure / telefilm, the movie was well worth it: one of the better telefilms in Dutch movie history.
