Öyküm Polat

Öyküm Polat

Favorite films

  • Paris, Texas
  • Frances Ha
  • A Ghost Story
  • Love

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  • Companion

    ★★★

  • Emilia Pérez

  • The Substance

    ★★★½

  • Anora

    ★★★★

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  • Dune

    Dune

    ★★★½

    In the film, three primary factions dominate the desert planet of Arrakis: House Atreides, House Harkonnen, and the Fremen. I will explore how these groups are represented and how their portrayal reflects Orientalist themes.

    To begin, House Harkonnen is depicted as a technologically advanced but tyrannical force, using its superior technology to impose brutal control over both Arrakis and its inhabitants. Their costumes reflect this oppressive
    nature, with dark, heavy, and almost grotesque armor and outfits that emphasize their violent…

  • The Bear That Wasn't

    The Bear That Wasn't

    ★★★★

    The story of the ‘bear’ starts with the symbolism of the work machines as hungry-like monsters. In this scene, the absence of a human image in a human-made creation symbolizes the disconnection from one’s essence and inner world, leading to a loss of identity and the transformation of humans from individuals into a prototype human figure in an institutionalized world. Then when the bear finds himself in the factory, he is forced to adapt into this producing system.

    At first…

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  • The Virgin Suicides

    The Virgin Suicides

    ★★★★★

    Love the quotes, the cinematography, and the girls...

    "And so we started to learn about their lives; coming to hold collective memories of times we hadn't experienced, we felt the inprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your life active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing what colors went together. We knew that the girls were really women in disguise... That they understood love and death... And that our job was merely to create that noise that seemed to fascinate them. We knew that they knew everything about us. And that we couldn't fathom them at all. "

  • All of Us Strangers

    All of Us Strangers

    ★★★★

    Special thanks for crushing my soul.

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