This film reminds me of Jarmusch's "Mo Ying in Paradise". In "Mo Ying in Paradise", a cool cousin who came to the United States from Budapest stayed at her cousin's house. The first half of the film depicts the awkward relationship between the two people. He is proud of his identity as a new American immigrant. He speaks English, and his cousin is not allowed to speak Hungarian. He and his cousin have nothing to say. Throwing the clothes my cousin gave me into the trash is the moment of returning to reality. The United States is a great power, a great power, the center of the world, and the American dream. As far as Turkey is concerned, Istanbul is a big city, a national center, and a Turkish dream. When Mahmut, who came to Istanbul from a small village to work hard for many years and became stable, accepted that he had just returned from his hometown due to the financial crisis, factory closures and layoffs. The estrangement between the two of them was predictable when they came to Istanbul for a job with a very uneducated cousin. The differences in living environment and class bring estrangement, but also arrogance and contempt, which is also a truly unsolved issue.
Most of the film's passages are in a small room, and it is in this seemingly monotonous scene of the room that Ceylon portrays the two people, especially the cousin's contempt and disgust for his cousin, vividly and humorously. . For example, in order to let the younger brother who is watching TV with him go to bed quickly, he watched Tarkovsky's "Stalker".... As a result, he also hypnotized his younger brother through the tower movie as he wished. And when the younger brother entered the room to sleep, the elder brother immediately watched porn... Then, facing the younger brother who came out again, he kept changing the channel to get rid of the younger brother, and finally turned off the TV... The aversions and rejections that enter into their lives and occupy their spaces are unobstructed. The younger brother failed to find a job and walked on the damp and cold dock full of loneliness and helplessness. Although the older brother was a photographer with a successful career, he was among the ranks of the middle-class cultural person. He talked with friends in the bar, and the office was full of books. Sitting in the office seemed so out of place, they couldn't have a common language, and if they did, it would only be a temporary courtesy. My brother's emotional world is not happy, and his divorced wife is about to go to another country and never see each other again. They all have their own problems in life, different and indescribable. The conflict between the two broke out when the younger brother wandered the streets in order to make room for the older brother to date, aimlessly, and even peeped at the woman next to him on the bus. He was like a idle countryman. The elder brother criticized the younger brother for smoking at home, not flushing the toilet, etc., and the younger brother was also dissatisfied with living on the street. The conflict between the two broke out completely that night. The elder brother suspected that the missing silver pocket watch was stolen by his younger brother. He kept repeating his lost pocket watch to put pressure on his younger brother. However, when he found the pocket watch, he did not tell his younger brother that he wanted to do it overnight. When the younger brother found that his backpack had been turned over, he also knew that the older brother did not trust him. All the contradictions were resolved for a moment after the mouse was glued to the rat trap. This was an ingenious design. The intervention of a third party allowed the two to reconcile, which also made the younger brother sit on the bench without saying goodbye. The picture of smoking his brother's cigarette and looking at the departing freighter looked sad and lonely. Family love is a product bound by blood, but in many cases, harmony and happiness cannot be bound. The changes in emotions are uncontrollable. Maybe they are not happy with each other, maybe because of changes in the environment, changes in class, and broadening of horizons. Alienation, there is no right or wrong, it is a product of civilization. Civilization brings morality as well as ego, and you have to deal with the relationship between the two, which is often a dilemma.
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