★ 10 / 10
The acting is masterful. You can truly feel
Orora M
The acting is masterful. You can truly feel the crushing weight of the world on the lead's shoulders—and how it's gently lifted the moment his niece enters his…
The acting is masterful. You can truly feel the crushing weight of the world on the lead's shoulders—and how it's gently lifted the moment his niece enters his life. It's a deeply touching story about children who never had a childhood, now rediscovering their inner child as adults.
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★ 10 / 10
The acting is subtle but powerful, making every
Sondos G
The acting is subtle but powerful, making every look and pause meaningful. The film explores the weight of the past in a very human way. The main character…
The acting is subtle but powerful, making every look and pause meaningful. The film explores the weight of the past in a very human way. The main character feels broken yet familiar, as if he represents parts of us we try to hide.
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★ 8 / 10
The movie isn't identified as Turkish from the
Joseph B
The movie isn't identified as Turkish from the beginning, and there is nothing in terms of scenery or locations to identify it, so it is in a sense generic, a…
The movie isn't identified as Turkish from the beginning, and there is nothing in terms of scenery or locations to identify it, so it is in a sense generic, a story about an individual and people in his life.
It begins with a young boy being pushed by his father to accept being sent to jail for a crime he didn't commit - but his older brother did, and presumably his brother would have been executed.
15 years later the boy now an adult is released from prison, he has nowhere to go but his brother's place. His brother is now married with a truly nasty controlling wife who resents the young man and believes he was a killer - obviously led to believe that by the lying husband - but the couple have a daughter who will win the young man's heart and calm him down.
The young man has an ex-fellow prisoner friend who has found work as a car repairer with a gruff, apparently stingy and rejecting older man, but can't give work to the newcomer. Indeed, he finds wherever he goes people are reluctant to offer him work.
Having been in prison and out of the working world he falls victim to being ripped off for most of his savings and delaying his ability to even find himself a primitive location to start his own garage.
Everything seems against him, except for the affection of the innocent little girl. And then his brother, probably drunk, is seriously injured in a car accident that kills his wife. Lying in coma in an expensive private hospital, there is no-one except the young man to look after the little girl who has become very attached to him. Eventually, the young man fixes a rare valuable old car, which leads to the gruff old repair shop boss admitting his own failings and helping him and being kinder to the little girl.
The brother recovers, takes away the little girl, but she has started to 'set him up' with an eligible single woman neighbour, and he has started to put together an abandoned building to start his own car repair store.
So the movie ends on a positive note, no surprise, after showing us a number of situations of neglect, dishonesty, poor behaviour of people in situations of power to those in their trust, the theme of ABANDONMENT running throughout.
There is no sex, no nudity in this movie, it is fairly raw in terms of the repeated rejections the 'hero' receives, but he does have some people who turn out to be supportive.
As a 'foreign' movie it is interesting, it moves along well dealing with a lot of unpleasantness that is lightened by the relationship between the deeply hurt young man imprisoned unfairly, and the innocent little girl, a bunde of joy in spite of her unpleasant dishonest parents.
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