62-84, I Didn't Copy That is a short film that highlights the real truth about what the women in Turkey are dealing with in their reality every single day. An Act, No. 6284, was enacted in 2012 to protect every woman after 201 women were killed, for no reason. However, it has done little, if anything, to stop the persecution and killings of women. In 2019 alone, 474 Turkish women were killed. I appreciate how this film showed this real life reality for so many Turkish women in a narrative film. I found it even more powerful to not just tell us what is happening, but really show us in the form of these women that did nothing wrong except for being women. I felt for these women, as I'm sure all women watching this film would. I especially liked how supportive every woman was to one another. That they were in this together and willing to help each other at all cost, because they were in an unjust society and the only people who were going to help, were one another. To have Ayca get killed at the end, so suddenly, was especially poignant to hit home what these women go through. And then, to cut back and forth between the scene and the explanation of 6284 was well done. It would leave any audience member to sit in silence and feel the weight of this film and of Turkey.
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A dramatization of the challenges and real dangers of being a woman and trans.
AnnNerd23 October 2021
62-84, I Didn't Copy That, HQ is a dramatization of the difficulties and real dangers that women in Turkey must withstand despite this law that exists to protect women from violence. There are many questions to ask regarding failed laws: were the laws overly broad or too generalized to enforce effectively? Could it be a matter of requiring advanced educational degrees for both legislators/congress as well as law enforcement personnel, to ensure that enforcement is carefully informed? Perhaps either or both of these scenarios could help to fix broken laws. Another, darker, possibility is that humans, like other presumably less civilized creatures, simply pick on those who are often weakest. If this interpretation were valid, then laws would carry little weight when contending with deeply rooted culture. The film effectively portrayed some of the challenges faced by its main characters: a marginalized trans woman, an abused wife, and an illegal immigrant. This mixed group clings together to escape law enforcement that seems to threaten and loom rather than assist or protect. The city scenes were framed well and were visually pleasing. Acting was good, if slightly melodramatic. The film's cliffhanger ending seemed to imply doom for the trio as they face off with a big gang of young men, but then resolves when they are mercifully picked up by the police car. Why laws and law enforcement seem so at odds with the welfare of any nation's citizens is a puzzle that seems universally challenging to societies. The story, inconclusive as to how the evening turns out for the trio, paints an uncertain picture.
The cinematography, lighting, and sound create the feel of a documentary.
Lateepha23 October 2021
This short Turkish narrative dramatically portrays the violence against women and Trans people despite the passage of Act 62-84, which was designed to protect them. The three major characters, Hulya an abused wife, Cansu a trans chef who takes her home to protect her, and a Syrian man who was hurt while trying to protect Hulya from her husband's knife attack, are believable in their explanations of the dangers of abuse they face from mobs and sometimes the police. The film is fast paced, and the characters' movements from the city square to Cansu's apartment to hoped for protection by Ayca helps the viewer understand their lives. The cinematography, lighting, and sound create the feel of a documentary.
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