Reel Dialogue Discussion Guide

Reel Dialogue Discussion Guide

Discussion Guide Film: The Water Diviner Discussion for a movie night: Enjoy the film. Afterwards, here are some discussion questions that might help you to engage with others on the topics from the film. Enjoy the time engaging with the film, your faith and friends. F i l m S y n o p s i s Joshua Connor (Russell Crowe) has lost everything. It's 1919, five years since his three sons left the family's Australian farmstead to fight at the Battle of Gallipoli. They did not return, and are presumed dead. Unable to live with her grief, Joshua's wife Eliza (Jacqueline McKenzie) commits suicide, and he makes her a graveside promise to bring back their sons' remains and bury them on home ground. He travels to Turkey, where he stays in a hotel run by the recently widowed Ayshe (Olga Kurylenko), whose son Orhan (Dylan Georgiades) takes a shine to him. When the British Consul refuses Joshua a permit to travel to Gallipoli, Ayshe advises him to bribe a fisherman and make an illegal approach by sea. Arriving at the site of the battlefield, Joshua finds ANZAC forces, led by Lieutenant Colonel Hughes (Jai Courtney), co-operating with defeated Turkish officers for the daunting task of mass burial. Thousands of men died at Gallipoli, Hughes tells Joshua - what makes him think he stands a chance of finding hissons? But Turkish Major Hasan (Yilmaz Erdogan) is sympathetic; and Joshua, it turns out, has a mystical knack for uncovering what's hidden beneath the ground. D i s c u s s i o n p o i n t s f o r R e e l D i a l o g u e 1 . D i d y o u e n j o y t h e f i l m , a n d w h y , o r w h y n o t ? 2 . H o w d i d y o u r e a c t t o t h e s e c t i o n s o f t h e f i l m p o r t r a y i n g J o s h u a ' s s e a r c h f o r h i s s o n s ? W h a t d i d y o u f e e l w a s c o n t r i b u t e d b y t h e f l a s h b a c k s c e n e s t o t h e b a t t l e , a n d t o t h e b o y s ' c h i l d h o o d s ? 3 . H o w d i d y o u f e e l a b o u t J o s h u a ' s r e l a t i o n s h i p w i t h O r h a n , a n d h i s r o m a n c e w i t h A y s h e ? H o w e f f e c t i v e l y d i d t h e f i l m b a l a n c e t h e c o n t r a s t i n g e m o t i o n a l t o n e s o f i t s w a r - b a s e d a n d r o m a n c e - b a s e d p l o t l i n e s ? 4 . H o w m u c h d i d y o u k n o w a b o u t t h e B a t t l e o f G a l l i p o l i a n d i t s a f t e r m a t h b e f o r e s e e i n g t h e f i l m ? W h a t d i d y o u l e a r n f r o m T h e W a t e r D i v i n e r , a n d w h a t q u e s t i o n s w e r e y o u l e f t w i t h ? R E E L D I A L O G U E . C O M | D I S C U S S I O N G U I D E C O P Y R I G H T © 2 0 2 0 R E E L D I A L O G U E . A L L R I G H T S .

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