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Issiz Adam (2008)
Mediocre Movie with poor directing and acting!
I know director Cagan Irmak's previous TV works of different genres (soap opera, horror etc.) which were quite successful and above average. On the other hand, this is the first movie by him that I have seen, and definitely will be the last one.
One of the most popular and well-accepted cinema topic of "love-pain-regret" could not have been handled worse!
One of the problems of Turkish cinema is script; especially lack of meaningful and more importantly "natural" dialogues. This movie suffers from the same problem. The writer-director tries to overcome this issue by using "amateur" actors as leads and letting them to improvise (at least it seemed to me that they are trying to improvise; otherwise it is just bad acting), but it just gives a cheesy feeling. The only "living" character in the movie is "the Mother", who is unfortunately not so pivotal enough to save the whole flick.
But, it seems that the director is so confident about the dialogues (and the monologues of the ridiculously acted, long inner voices scene) that, he does not need to use the sets, music, or even the city itself more deeply to create the atmosphere, which two lead actors definitely fail to do.
What he needed to do is simply go back to the roots of Turkish cinema and at least "copy" the old "Yesilcam" romantic movies, if he just wanted to make a tear-jerker.
If you want to see real movie about love-pain-regret and self destruction, go and see "Masumiyet" for example. 5 minute long monologue of Bekir (incredibly played by Haluk Bilginer) will take you somewhere, which even 5 hour-long Issiz Adam will never succeed.