This was the first time I have seen a Turkish movie. Nuri Bilge Ceylan is a great and prolific director. He is a thinker. Watching his movie was almost like reading Russian novels by Dostoyevsky, or Turgenev, or Chekov. I think Nuri is heavily influenced by Russian literature. I liked the landscape of this film. However I have a few issues with this film: 1) the heavy and lengthy philosophical discussions with another writer and with his friends were totally irrelevant to the movie. 2) I don't like his treatment of youth. The 22 years old young man thinks, acts, behaviors, and depresses like a 60 years old man, without any liveliness and innocence. I especially hate to see the last scene the son was contemplating about hanging himself. There were not many reasons behind such a thought. His father had the reasons to hang himself, but not the son. 3) The story was very thin, tempo was very slow, and it became boring to watch. However, I think I would love to watch the other movies by Nuri in the future.
Review of The Wild Pear Tree
