A Tale of the Unbearable Lightness of Suffering from the “Greek Weird Wave”: Oiktos / Pity / Zavallı (2018)

It is as if a question was asked and then a film was made to answer that question. And what is that question?

How can a man who feels happy only when he is unhappy be happy?

Released in 2018, the film Oiktos is the story of addiction to pain. I will briefly tell you about the film and try to write about what it made me feel and the emergence of oiktos.

In April 2023, I was looking at the new arrivals on Mubi and I saw it; OiktosDevamını Oku…

Let It Go: Sevgili Arsız Ölüm Dirmit (2018)

Dirmit is the theatre adaptation of Latife Tekin’s novel Dear Arsız Ölüm.

Before talking about the play Dirmit, I would like to talk about Nezaket Erden. Nezaket was born in Mersin on 16 July 1990. She spends her childhood in the village in a family that is so protective that it cannot be called conservative. She went to the mosque every summer, just like every child in the 90s did in the summer. Nezaket, who is at the mosque during the day, has to be at home in the evenings. After the evening prayer, girls cannot play on the street. The enthusiasm and the lack of enthusiasm she has to live with makes her a withdrawn child. She plays a lot at weddings with her family and dancing suddenly becomes her passion. While he sees dance as a means of expressing his feelings and derives great pleasure from it, she loses his enthusiasm during his secondary school years. This situation leads her to volleyball. Devamını Oku…