This film can be said to be the pinnacle of Ceylon's exploration of video style. There are not only composition and photography skills that use space and light to create emotions in a small and dim room, but also external shots through a large number of close-ups of people's faces. At the same time, the photography and color grading of the outdoor open space are also quite visually impactful. The sky always covered with dark clouds and the wet and cold city buildings are integrated with the streets. The whole world is like the human spirit, or the human spirit is the world. part of the "absolute spirit". Ceylon once asked the male protagonist to watch Tarkovsky's "Stalker" at home in "Far Away". Although the role of "Stalker" in that movie was to send his younger brother to sleep, Ceylon must be in love with Takovsky. For Kowski, the old tower uses mottled walls, damp spaces, dripping water, empty wine bottles, and filth everywhere to create unique aesthetics and externalize the heart. Ceylon chose another poetic style that is exclusive to him, the story is more metaphysical, and the picture is still metaphysical.
A simple story, with a unique visual style and narrative rhythm, can burst into a powerful attraction. Ceylon's works always involve the alienation and estrangement of family, such as the cousins in "Far Away", such as the siblings and husband and wife in "Hibernation". The estrangement and alienation of the family of three in this film comes from a huge family change. The surreal passage of the drowning young son's ghost in front of the eldest son and his father reveals the family's pain. In order to get monetary compensation, his father was sentenced to nine months in prison for his hit-and-run boss. This is a typical low-level role, and he has to sell his principles in order to survive and his family. The son's failure in the college entrance examination, entanglement with street gangsters, decadence and nothingness, this is also a typical image of a low-level teenager. While the father was in prison, the son visited twice, the mother did not visit once, the indifference and alienation between the husband and wife were clear at a glance, and the mother's affair with the father's boss was the only way for the mother to escape the hopeless and oppressive life, so she would cut off the relationship in Tie Xin. An undignified request for an opportunity in front of the boss. The picture of two people begging and one rejecting Ceylon is represented by a long-range fixed lens. The black mountains and rivers in the distance and the dark clouds drifting in the sky are in this magnificent scenery. Natural charm. After his father was released from prison, the "silent" quarrels and confrontations in bed with his mother were extremely tense. The already estranged husband and wife relationship and the rescue brought by cheating made the wife look contemptuous even though she was lying on the bed in sexy and coquettish pajamas. The expression, the father knew that the mother had been to the boss's office, he knew everything, and the son also knew about his mother's adultery, and even got angry about it, but he didn't listen, read, or talk, there was no cheating, no bereavement, no estrangement , everything tends to be normal in silence, the three monkeys are in the same room, each performing their duties, this is a hopeless calm. In the end, the son killed the boss, the mother tried to jump off the building to end her bad life, and the father found a lower-level person who was more marginal than himself, and used money as a bait to let him go to jail for his son. It's a circle, and such an easy impostor also criticizes the absurdity of the Turkish judicial system. The final scene of the film is poetic and depressing. The father stands alone on the roof, with dark clouds, lightning and thunder, and heavy rain. He turns his back to the camera and looks into the distance. Murder, life takes a long-lost wave.
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