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Morgan 2022-03-24 09:02:48

Located in Anatolia, southwest Asia, a wild mountain far away from towns, it is chilling and quiet. At dusk, three cars came from the other end of the mountain road and finally stopped by a fountain on the side of the road. The person in the car stepped out, as if recognizing something. It turned out that a murder occurred not long ago, and the suspect buried the body in a corner of the wasteland. After being arrested, the suspect took local police officers, medical examiners, prosecutors from the main town and other people of various identities around to find the hiding place. The prisoner vaguely remembered several iconic objects, but could not determine where the real burial place was. This group of people ran around the valley all night, chatting casually when they were bored, telling the secrets in their hearts and their dissatisfaction with the status quo. The long night seems endless...
The film won the Jury Prize at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, the Best Director Award at the 2012 Dublin International Film Festival, and the 2011 Asia Pacific Film Festival Best Cinematography, Best Director and Jury Prize.

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  • Jason 2022-03-15 09:01:05

    The most representative one of Ceylon's works is too sharp forward, and later works are somewhat greasy. A crime movie carries a sense of fatalism and powerlessness that an individual's fate is not attached to. I noticed the little apples rolling down the drain, the wine bottles in the mayor’s yard being blown away by the wind, and the black plastic bags swept by the wind outside the doctor’s window, all resembling the living conditions of several characters. The three vehicles represent public security, criminals, and a corpse. The social attributes and morphological hierarchy of people are not the focus of the movie, and the director has no intention of clarifying the specific details of the crime. A dark night and a day are a clear dividing line, and it is impossible to control fate at dawn. The photography is calm and introverted, and the images are vast and deep, silently watching and contemplating the humanity and spiritual outlook of the land of Asia Minor Plateau. The truth is also cruel. The child threw stones at his biological father, the room was ripped apart by the corpse of the dead man, and outside the window was the noisy children in the playground. It seems that the doctor has accomplished what should be done, but in reality nothing has changed.

  • Deshawn 2022-04-20 09:02:10

    The scene of the power outage at the village chief's house is the pivot and the core. The daughter's lamp illuminates everything, the people present, and the dead souls. Rolling apples, jars, and black plastic bags in the wind form the lines of objects. All characters have scars, should the secret be revealed? Questions have no answers. Cruel narration, dissection, humor, mixed together, absolutely.