Melih Sever

Melih Sever

Favorite films

  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • Burning
  • Portrait of a Lady on Fire

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  • Gretel & Hansel

    ★★★

  • Anora

    ★★★½

  • Blade Runner

    ★★★★★

  • Deniz Göktaş: Selam Selam

    ★★★★

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  • The Teachers' Lounge

    The Teachers' Lounge

    ★★★★

    A version of political cinema reflected in a school. If freedom is preferred, disobedience begins. It is nothing more than a barrier to progress. However, this is not modernist progress, but a method of progress and education that prioritizes freedoms and differences. A system that has learned from the past but has created a generation that will trigger civil disobedience is a reflection of both the post-modernist and post-Nazi Era. The success of the film comes from here. We feel short of breath in the school corridors. Although the understanding of modernist institutions has changed, their weight still weighs on us.

  • Poor Things

    Poor Things

    ★★★½

    Our story is a modern adaptation of Frankenstein, but this time it is the soul, not the body, that is deformed. Bella Baxter is lucky person who comes out of the Cave for this time. This salvation was granted to Bella by her the god. -With absolutely free will~ Bella embarks on Odyssey to grasp the truth. 

    Lanthimos, in his own style, asks philosophical questions about the concept of male dominance and good and evil. He also transforms it into a surreal and absurd narrative. Even though his work grows and develops, apart from its surreal moments, it repeats itself in terms of content.

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  • Everything Everywhere All at Once

    Everything Everywhere All at Once

    ★★★

    A new narrative style that the film brought to the subject of parallel universes is undeniably successful.  The film is like a surreally reflection of a subconscious mind.
    However; By placing the mother-daughter relationship in the subtext and taking this issue as a basis, touching upon existential problems and even claiming that something has meaning in as didactic, unfortunately, sometimes does not work.

    First Layer: On Parallel Universes and Mother-Daughter relationship

    Second Layer: On our unfulfilled dreams.

    Third Layer: Existential problems and the search for meaning.

  • Dune

    Dune

    ★★★★

    As someone who has not read the books, the narrative of the universe drew me in, but I was never excited throughout the movie. Even though the external energy of the movie appeared in the war scenes at times, the weight of the movie absorbed the energy of the war scenes. The very dullness of the universe and the characters cause the film to lose its fluency. Having great cinematography does not make the movie Arthouse, unfortunately, the mainstream and…

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