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Uzak Ihtimal (2009)
I Have My Reasons
I guess I have to express that I've been long waiting for this movie to come out with sole excitement but all I've been feeling since the end movie is soler disappointment.
The movie shows what a debut-movie maker should and shouldn't do (and he gets caught in traps almost all the debut-making movie makers have been falling in). This had to be a great movie. This had to be great because you got all the elements one need to make a splendid movie. You could dig further and further and explore what religion really is in its very core, its dilemma (both on society and person), the goods and bads of both religions and how they look at each other at what points and struggle the girl and man throughout all these complications.
But this movie offers non of these.
What this movie offers is unnecessary jokes in unnecessary scenes, a shallow love story and nothing deep. There isn't even any psychoanalytical resolutions both in the process and in the end! Besides all this, it isn't even making you feel the way the name of the movie expresses. You don't feel that "distance" it had to be between characters and situations.
Apan (2009)
Heavy influence of Haneke cinema on suppressed personality
There's always a recurring theme we witness in Haneke's films; life is brutal...
...and time to time, too painful to bear.
No need to be a careful eye; director Jesper Ganslandt is a follower of Haneke cinematography, which is based on solid psychoanalysis of both borderline human nature and structure of society with a complicated resolution of history. This what Ganslandt does in this film.
Krister is a man we see and pass by on the street in our everyday lives and also can be easily mixed with who we really are. An ordinary family man with a decent job and has what we call it a normal life. But, mostly, it's not what it seems above the surface. At the beginning of the movie, he wakes up in the middle of his own toilet with blood all over his clothes and place. Then we see him take off, do his everyday routine and go back home at the end of the day. And this is when we get it; the reason behind the blood on his clothes is a murder he has committed a night before. The murder of his wife and a plus. An attempted murder on his own kid.
From this part of the film we see Krister dealing with his own personality, which comes down to characteristic resolution that consists on his own past and how he perceived the term family, how he's been treated by his own parents, especially the mother. The mother is always the key, as in our lives as well, she forms a perfect picture of Oedipus. As a man who can only communicate with people through his headphone and not in person, Krister isn't a successful example of out-of-closet personality, and having a hard time to integrate it with his life as he's known it thus far, and eventually, end up in destroying his own family which is pointing out destroying his own past, and especially, again, the mother.
I think what makes this film stunning is that the amount of moments we see ourselves in Krister. Krister is who we are and who we are completes the character Krister wee witness in this movie. He can be any of us, if we consist on the theory of that most of us are homosexuals subliminally. This is a story of not being. Of not being yourself, not taking your sexual identity in your hands as you like...
...Of not being who you really are.
Winterstilte (2008)
Touchy Poetic Experience
First of things; consider this movie as a poem or a material of musical art. I don't say this is obligated and all, but, as the director of the movie also implies, is necessary if you intend to see the piece as a whole, and this is the thing about what we call it cinema.
Winterstilte contains a strong influent of symbolism and lyric interpretation. From the beginning to the end, with Deer Men and all, the piece does not lead a linear way of going on and is obviously in a worry to tell what it wants to tell in a different way than we see in everyday cinema.
And, as what the director of the movie itself has said in !f Istanbul Film Festival, before screening, don't push yourself to get what movie wants to tell you by using heavy symbolism and ruin it, because this is exactly what makes it harder for yourself.