(1) The single quality of this movie, as with all great art, is "what is NOT said/shown", but what the viewer has to make up in his own mind. This being a German movie, could it also be necessary to go back those 30 years, when Susanne (Hanna Schygulla's character) went hiking to India, so mid- to late 1970's. Could she have been this bit leftist-leaning person ? This could explain her resolve finally to support Ayten - after the EU/Turkey argument - and also the break-up with the completely absent husband, Lotte's father (only hinted at in the phone booth sequence). (2) The "Bayram/Abraham's sacrifice" (starts at scene one !) is the key underlying the film and uniting the countries and the characters: /SPOILER/ every one of them is responsible for killing whom he/she likes most but you can repent already "on this side".
Review of The Edge of Heaven
The Edge of Heaven
(2007)
What motivates Susanne (the mother): or, what is not said (+ key)
6 January 2008
Warning: Spoilers