Everything in this movie has one and only purpose: touch you and make you cry. The story is relatively simple and even the characters are extreme opposites, in one side we got a poor family of an old grandmother who takes care of her son with an intelectual deficiency and his cute little daughter and at the other side we got the rich and bad Lieutenant Colonel and all the other bad rich people, so the characters construction is made in order for you to empathize and love one side and hate the other, and then the plot is obviously about a situation of injustice when the people who is easy to empathize with are harmed due to actions of the people that is easy to hate, the recipe is simple but it works.
The soundtrack is very good and well chosen and it appears in the right scenes in the right moments, the filming angles are also greatly chosen especially in the sad scenes and the photography is also very pretty. It's impossible to talk about this movie without mentioning the Oscar worthy performance by Aras Bulut Iynemli, without such a great performance I'm not sure if some scenes would be quiet touching as they were and the movie overall wouldn't be as good, and the little girl also did amazing for a kid! It's a movie that will make even toughest ones cry and will touch everyone, a pure drama! It's really hard to hate and dislike this.
In the genre of drama movies this is definitely one of the best of this last decade and just shows that there is so much talent and beautiful cinematography outside that Hollywood buble!
Although all this factors I still feel that is inappropriate to portray this as a masterpiece like many are doing, the story is as simple as it could get, visually is good but not a cinematography achievement or something and like I said it's impossible to hate this and I think that a lot are rating this filme based on how it made them feel or cry instead of how it was really made, I'm being more objective that subjective here because if we choose to rate movies by how touching and sad they are the Academy awards would only award drama movies... Don't get me wrong it's a beautiful movie, just don't put this at a level higher than it really is.
The soundtrack is very good and well chosen and it appears in the right scenes in the right moments, the filming angles are also greatly chosen especially in the sad scenes and the photography is also very pretty. It's impossible to talk about this movie without mentioning the Oscar worthy performance by Aras Bulut Iynemli, without such a great performance I'm not sure if some scenes would be quiet touching as they were and the movie overall wouldn't be as good, and the little girl also did amazing for a kid! It's a movie that will make even toughest ones cry and will touch everyone, a pure drama! It's really hard to hate and dislike this.
In the genre of drama movies this is definitely one of the best of this last decade and just shows that there is so much talent and beautiful cinematography outside that Hollywood buble!
Although all this factors I still feel that is inappropriate to portray this as a masterpiece like many are doing, the story is as simple as it could get, visually is good but not a cinematography achievement or something and like I said it's impossible to hate this and I think that a lot are rating this filme based on how it made them feel or cry instead of how it was really made, I'm being more objective that subjective here because if we choose to rate movies by how touching and sad they are the Academy awards would only award drama movies... Don't get me wrong it's a beautiful movie, just don't put this at a level higher than it really is.