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…

God-Given Ugliness: Envy (Kıskanmak) (2009)

The movie Envy (Kıskanmak) , which was released to the audience on November 6, 2009, takes place in Zonguldak in the 1930s. I can list the names in the cast of the film for you as follows;

Berrak Tüzünataç with the character of Mükerrem, Nergis Öztürk with the character of Seniye, Bora Cengiz with the character of Nüzhet, Serhat Tutumluer with the character of Halit and many more great actors whose names I cannot write here. The cast of the film is really good. Devamını Oku…

Drowning in a Sea of Clichés: Dragon Trap (Ejder Kapanı) (2010)

Sometimes you don’t know almost any actor in a film, but you watch that film because there is only one actor, or you don’t know an actor, but you watch and follow the director who made the film.Our favourite actors and directors have always had a special place in our lives. When I saw the first poster, my heart started beating faster with excitement, and when I read the names of the actors in order, I even felt a Mexican Wave inside me. I mentioned at the beginning, sometimes you watch a film for an actor or director. Imagine; if those actors and the director meet in the same place, can there be a bigger excitement for a film lover? Who wasn’t on that poster? Devamını Oku…

That Village is Our Village: Deli Deli Olma (2009)

“There is a village far away, whether we go there or not. That village is our village…”

Perhaps one of the most beautiful words to describe this film. Some films do not give the audience plenty of action, plenty of comedy, plenty of sadness or a pinch of fear, a pinch of intrigue. Some films take the audience into a tiny world built by big hearts on a white screen and make them feel their missing parts. This film is such a film. Just like Cemal Süreya’s poem about Kars, which he wrote after feeling as if he was there without having seen it, Deli Deli Olma is a film that can take you to Kars and the East without having been there. If you have any doubts about “don’t get me out of my warm bed and take me to cold Kars”, don’t be afraid. Because this film is the kind of film that may even cause you to remove the quilt you have covered yourself with because of the warmth you feel… Devamını Oku…