What a great movie. A real tour de force as the movie can be seen as a thriller, a dark political satire, a Turkish perspective on the wester films, or even a love story.
Photography is powerful, sinkholes are both literal and metaphorical. The movie delivers a meditation on the power: having it, disputing it, engaging with it. It is all a matter of power struggles, with traditions, corruption, threats, and a difficult balance to maintain. The state and the village, the outsider and the locals, the urban educated intruder and the brutality and misery of the inhabitants (Deliverance vibes).
If the meditation about power is not new, the film delivers a great, original reflection on the ambiguity of humanity. Could one person, who aspires to act with integrity, be the predator and the victim almost at the same time? Although the village is remote and isolated, the topic of having recourse to drugs to manipulate someone is very contemporary and associated with big cities.
The last scene is haunting. Well done!
Photography is powerful, sinkholes are both literal and metaphorical. The movie delivers a meditation on the power: having it, disputing it, engaging with it. It is all a matter of power struggles, with traditions, corruption, threats, and a difficult balance to maintain. The state and the village, the outsider and the locals, the urban educated intruder and the brutality and misery of the inhabitants (Deliverance vibes).
If the meditation about power is not new, the film delivers a great, original reflection on the ambiguity of humanity. Could one person, who aspires to act with integrity, be the predator and the victim almost at the same time? Although the village is remote and isolated, the topic of having recourse to drugs to manipulate someone is very contemporary and associated with big cities.
The last scene is haunting. Well done!