Like we’re denied the full view of Paşali’s butt we’re dying to see, the film’s strength lies as much in what’s portrayed as in what’s not enframed, obscured, or, at the very least, ambiguated. The effective depiction of the contemporary socio-political reality of rural Anatolia along the lines of gender and sexuality derives pretty much from the dilemma of the individual’s complicity in this reality and adoption of its codes and rites. Self-doubt is the working proof of this very…
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this was an utter heartache for the most part. i come from a culture that judges how good a film is based on how much bodily reaction it elicits - so how much it makes you cry or laugh. it worked as a sorrow filled tearjerker for me, so it was definitely a great film by my cultural metrics.
but there was so much more to it than that, which lies somewhere far behind the abrupt cuts to the loud…
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Head-On 2004
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depeche mode, hamburg, yeşilçam, brecht, rakı, melodrama, istanbul, sezen, fassbinder, fasıl… and sibel and cahit? transnationality as fragmentation! to this moment, half of my heart has been with sibel, and the other half is still and forever on that bus to mersin with cahit. meaning they became fragments in my own life. meaning all identities are fragmented. meaning life is fragmentation. yine mi güzeliz, yine mi çiçek? no, i think we are all just wounded.
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