The Ottoman Lieutenant ออตโตมัน เส้นทางรัก แผ่นดินร้อน (2017) [บรรยายไทย]

The Ottoman Lieutenant is an overwrought nurse romance merged with a history lesson, a combination that is hard to take as seriously as the film wants to be taken.

Hera Hilmar is Lillie, a young nurse in Philadelphia who hears a fund-raising presentation about a medical mission in a far-off land and makes a quixotic decision to go there. It’s 1914, and the mission is in Van, part of the Ottoman Empire (now eastern Turkey), a place where complex political, religious and ethnic tensions are coming to a boil at the dawn of World War I.

The doctor whose plea caught Lillie’s attention, Jude (Josh Hartnett), is surprised when she shows up at the mission, but not only welcomes her, he also quickly develops a romantic interest in her. Unfortunately for him, he is not the title character. That honor goes to Ismail (Michiel Huisman), the military officer who was Lillie’s reluctant escort to the remote site. He and Lillie clash at first, so you know they’ll soon be hot and heavy for each other, a particular problem in this time and place because he is a Muslim, she a Christian.

Forbidden love! Two men fighting over a woman! Panoramic horse rides though golden meadows while danger lurks! The film, written by Jeff Stockwell and directed by Joseph Ruben, has all the elements of a type of female fantasy that has seemed out of step since the 1950s. It aims to be an epic in the "Doctor Zhivagomold", but somehow the crashing score and picture-postcard images only diminish the world-shaking events swirling around this romantic triangle.