First of all, at the top of the family/prison is the only man in the family - uncle. His cruel, paranoid and sanctimonious image is a manifestation of male power in that extremely conservative and closed society. And all the people in the village are prison guards, men and women, who monitor the girls' every move and spread their findings.
The grandma sandwiched between the uncle and the five girls is the most interesting and actually the most bitter character. On the one hand, as a parent, that is, the enforcer of patriarchal power, she is disciplining these girls and wants to marry them off safely; on the other hand, as a woman, she is also protecting these girls and helping them in a certain To some extent against male domination. This is also the role played by all women in a patriarchal society, facing a dilemma all the time.
At the beginning of the film, five girls are one girl, and they do everything together. On the one hand, it shows the deep friendship between them, and it also implies the same fate of girls in such an extreme patriarchal society. But as each girl's story unfolds in turn, you'll find that each of them has a different character, and therefore a different fate at the end.
The eldest and the second were married at the same time, just because the eldest won from his grandmother and the second did not say a word, the eldest married the boy she loved, and the second could only accept an arranged marriage without love. The third child, the child in the middle, did not make much of an impression in the first half of the film, but she reminded everyone of the repression and humiliation she suffered before in the loudest way of suicide. The old and the young are the most rebellious and the bravest. In many moments, the film looks at the people and things around her through her perspective. She witnessed what happened to her sisters, so she made up her mind to flee. She tried again and again, and finally managed to escape with the only remaining sister.
There are also many very absurd scenes in the film, which make people think that it must be fictional, but it is very reasonable in such a social state. For example, on the wedding night, the groom's family will stand at the door of the bride's bedroom and ask for bed sheets to check whether the bride is a virgin. They rushed to the hospital overnight for an examination without seeing red. The bride told the doctor that she was not a virgin because she slept all over the world. . Another example is the girls who escaped to watch a football match, and their female relatives saw them on the TV. To protect them from being discovered, they smashed the power station in the village, causing the entire village to lose power. The director uses a relaxed and comical approach to deal with the social reality that can make people sad and desperate a hundred times, making the whole film have a girl-like lightness.
Of course, finally, I would like to mention the delivery guy who is responsive. He's a very idealistic being who gives the movie and that little Turkish village a touch of beauty beyond the sun and the sea. The first time he helped the girls catch the bus to the stadium, Lale gave him a hug, he was surprised and shy; he kept watching Lale laugh when he taught Lale to drive; and he arrived just in time on the girl's escape route, Holding Lale tightly... When Lale grows up, she should understand what a touching memory it is.
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