I fear I'm going to be disrespecting a lot of people. Obviously this film has a great significance to many, in particular Turkish people. I however did not find any redeeming qualities.
I realize this is a film from 1982 from Turkey (a country not know for cinema) on what I assume is a very small budget. Even with that in mind, the film looks terrible in my opinion.
From the moment the film started I felt detached from it. Nothing is really given any context. The situation isn't sketched properly. The main characters aren't really introduced and at no point to I feel I get to know them.
When the film continues with what are supposed to be very dramatic, gripping, shocking and dramatic scenes they don't hit. Because they are just look snippets. Scenes with no context. They might be still photographs totally unrelated to each other and it would probably have had more of an impact on me.
To top all of that off, not a single "actor" in the film is capable of showing any kind of emotion. Everyone talks like there's reading their lines of a teleprompter and every actor around it seems to wait for their cue to come. I've seen news anchor's show more spontaneity and emotion. Nothing seems in any way organic.
When I was 13 years old I had to make a short film for a school project. I was the camera man and director. I was so disastrously bad though that in the final cut of the film you could hear me say "action" and "cut" in every scene. In Yol, I could almost hear the director here in every scene. Maybe I could get my school project released as well.
I realize this is a film from 1982 from Turkey (a country not know for cinema) on what I assume is a very small budget. Even with that in mind, the film looks terrible in my opinion.
From the moment the film started I felt detached from it. Nothing is really given any context. The situation isn't sketched properly. The main characters aren't really introduced and at no point to I feel I get to know them.
When the film continues with what are supposed to be very dramatic, gripping, shocking and dramatic scenes they don't hit. Because they are just look snippets. Scenes with no context. They might be still photographs totally unrelated to each other and it would probably have had more of an impact on me.
To top all of that off, not a single "actor" in the film is capable of showing any kind of emotion. Everyone talks like there's reading their lines of a teleprompter and every actor around it seems to wait for their cue to come. I've seen news anchor's show more spontaneity and emotion. Nothing seems in any way organic.
When I was 13 years old I had to make a short film for a school project. I was the camera man and director. I was so disastrously bad though that in the final cut of the film you could hear me say "action" and "cut" in every scene. In Yol, I could almost hear the director here in every scene. Maybe I could get my school project released as well.