Birds can fly and Turtles can swim

Birds can fly and Turtles can swim

Innocence.. Does this word has any meaning in our times? I usually wonder..

War Greed Survival and so much more.. Still innocence exists? When I see a child smile in a crowded metro train in Mumbai I think it does exist. But where is my innocence. Did I lose it Or has it faded in the days that I have lived so far. Innocence is still there when I smile at someone in my office thinking he will smile back at me. It is not there when the smiles exchanged doesnt have any meaning more than stamping a corporate affair.

But still children still have the innocence. In the way they hold their hands with their elders. When they chase a dog, when they spill a icecream, or look at white elephants flying in sky.

The movie 'Turtles can fly' says a strong "NO" to this statement. It says it with war.

Children are raped and have children of their own
They collect unexploded mines for their money needs
They kill themselves and their child
They buy bargain sell and practice weapons
They sleep under big iron tanks
They dream a different culture totally different from what they are.

This is how the movie establishes its statement.
Be it kurdistan or sri lanka the statement remains the same.
What are we doing? Killing children (If innocence is killed do you expect a child to be a child anymore?)
War is there not only in Kurdistan. It is there in our living rooms. A kid sees Mumbai terror attacks and it looks like a hollywood movie to him Not only to children;Many of our adults watched it the same way like a cricket match ('Arre yaar.. Why cant the soldier go and attack in the other way.. ')
Yes they remove our innocence.. Innocence is to cry when it pains to someone or atleast to yourself. They are removing it the way salt erodes spoon.

But the movie also says there are traces of it.
When the boy smiles when he standing amidst mines innocence is still there.
With puppy love.
The young guy saves the boy in the mines.
Dreams for red fishes in ponds (But the fishes lose color)

Hope. Still humanity believes in this word. It has and it will. It has to.

No Saddam No America. The Children have nothing left in the land of mines.
They dream of red fishes that lose colors always.

You know?
Children can play.
Turtles can swim and Birds can fly.