As the main voice of Ceylon’s opposition in Cannes, Johnnie To said that Ceylon took too long to talk about too few things. Indeed, the film "Once Upon a Time in Asia Minor" was too loose and relaxed in the period of one night and one day. If Photographs that are not beautiful can easily make people fall asleep. But when you think about it carefully, for this film, Ceylon used the time to explain what he wanted to express so deeply... Obviously this is a social film, and Ceylon's expression of Turkish society is also A major motif in almost all his works. In the first part of the film, the prosecutors, doctors, and police led the suspect No. 1 to find the location of the body. As the No. 1 suspect could not remember the location of the body, the Naxi police officer was the first to make a fuss, and the prosecutor played a role of dissuasion. Both the prosecutor and the police are officials within the Turkish system, and the doctors are on the sidelines, examining everything silently, like the most righteous characters among them. Prosecutors may be hindered by doctors, so they discipline their subordinates. In the process of dissuasion, the prosecutor mentioned the "EU". To quickly understand this movie, you must understand the background of Turkey. Turkey has been requesting to join the EU, but due to the fact that Turkey’s strongman politics, human rights, and legal system cannot meet the requirements of the EU. , So Turkey has not been allowed to join. At this time, the prosecutor played a slightly more positive role, such as worrying about the country and the people. However, contacting the prosecutor and the doctor and saying the words of a friend’s wife not only made people suspicious. In the first dialogue with the doctor, Ceylon When the prosecutor is speaking, the leaves are used as the foreground, implying that he is lying, and that the woman's death has another secret. For a while, the prosecutor is complicated. With the development of the film, when the village chief said that the corpse of the old man in the village stinks after death, the prosecutor said indifferently: "Just bury it." At this moment, the nature of the prosecutor’s corpse is fully exposed. With a cynical attitude, he even wanted to save the trouble and send the corpse directly back to the town. Fortunately, the doctor made a cry for relief. However, the doctor’s voice was too small, and the decision was still in the hands of the prosecutor. The second suspect wanted to confess the crime but was stopped by the first suspect. The case was obviously not as simple as it seemed. After leaving the murder scene, the doctor came to the victim's home, looking like a detective, but what can he do as a doctor? Then the doctor breaks the fourth wall through a mirror and looks straight into the camera. It is very similar to the end of "Memories of Murder", but here is like asking the audience what would you do if you were a doctor? At this time, the prosecutor came in. From his conversation with the doctor this time, it is not difficult to guess that the prosecutor’s wife committed suicide because of his derailment. The doctor seemed to see through the heart of the prosecutor. Looking at the prosecutor with moist eyes in the middle of the desk, his power seemed to be on his side. Back in the final autopsy room, the prosecutor finally gave the doctor the right to solve the problem because of the previous guilt, and the doctor could give the deceased the truth. But the doctor casually asked his assistant to dig through the corpse, and even changed the cause of death of the deceased from being buried alive to having his abdomen opened! The image of the doctor was completely reversed. When the doctor was actually working, he was the same as the prosecutor. The truth was irrelevant in his eyes. It is important, justice and fairness are irrelevant, the film is completely sublimated here, the theme is very obvious, that is, Ceylon's complaint of indifference to the Turks. Because of their indifference to crime, officials don’t care how to transport the corpse, doctors don’t care about the truth of the incident, young people don’t care about the life and death of old people; because of their indifference to beautiful things, the apples that fall from the apple tree can only be filled with gloomy ditches and villages. The beautiful daughter can only be unknown in a poor village... In Ceylon's eyes, Turkey is the same as the fallen apple. Isn't it the fate of slowly decayed? What hope is there for a country that does not care about evil and fairness? What can the current group of Turks leave to the children in the future? The image of the doctor has been completely reversed. When the doctor actually works, he is the same as the prosecutor. The truth is irrelevant in his eyes, justice and fairness are irrelevant. The film is completely sublimated here, and the theme is very obvious. That is Ceylon. A complaint of indifference to the Turks. Because of their indifference to crime, officials don’t care how to transport the corpse, doctors don’t care about the truth of the incident, young people don’t care about the life and death of old people; because of their indifference to beautiful things, the apples that fall from the apple tree can only be filled with gloomy ditches and villages. The beautiful daughter can only be unknown in a poor village... In Ceylon's eyes, Turkey is the same as the fallen apple. Isn't it the fate of slowly decayed? What hope is there for a country that does not care about evil and fairness? What can the current group of Turks leave to the children in the future? The image of the doctor has been completely reversed. When the doctor actually works, he is the same as the prosecutor. The truth is irrelevant in his eyes, justice and fairness are irrelevant. The film is completely sublimated here, and the theme is very obvious. That is Ceylon. A complaint of indifference to the Turks. Because of their indifference to crime, officials don’t care how to transport the corpse, doctors don’t care about the truth of the incident, young people don’t care about the life and death of old people; because of their indifference to beautiful things, the apples that fall from the apple tree can only be filled with gloomy ditches and villages. The beautiful daughter can only be unknown in a poor village... In Ceylon's eyes, Turkey is the same as the fallen apple. Isn't it the fate of slowly decayed? What hope is there for a country that does not care about evil and fairness? What can the current group of Turks leave to the children in the future?
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