...just as an addition to the 2014 review by "junocreate" ... to me 'My Sweet Pepper Land" proved especially appealing by its symbolic value for probably a major part of our world, contrasting with some far more widely known world parts, certainly in most movies, where in the end, law and order seem to rule, especially for the daily lives of us, westerners, who are permanently being blinded to most of what is going on, and are unable to interfere effectively with those wildly exercising their power and injustice by even unjust laws nearby, as would hold for the worlds easterners too.
Sadly, in real live, we are extremely short of common people like the film's hero Baran, who has learned how to effectively discriminate between the need for moral tolerance and the need for actively killing. In the movie, too, I ended up fearing for Baran's short time future in the circumstances, though he would seems to being happy at that moment.
In short, the film demonstrates our worlds most pressing dilemma in an involving and easy to grasp way. Great movie.
Sadly, in real live, we are extremely short of common people like the film's hero Baran, who has learned how to effectively discriminate between the need for moral tolerance and the need for actively killing. In the movie, too, I ended up fearing for Baran's short time future in the circumstances, though he would seems to being happy at that moment.
In short, the film demonstrates our worlds most pressing dilemma in an involving and easy to grasp way. Great movie.