Distant Reviews

April 2022-09-21 04:51:12

One weekend not long ago, on the way back to the city from the outskirts of the city, there were English songs playing in the car. I talked with my friends about European and American culture. From music to movies, from travel to food, the conversation continued until I stopped for dinner.

When I...

Cassidy 2022-09-20 11:47:58

Turkish silent film? We can't afford too much silence in movies, even if we ourselves have been silent in life and close to death.

We don't like seeing the real side of life, entertainment, and sometimes a hallucinogen.

Sober movies will be deposited in memory, and those happy perceptions will not...

Roel 2022-09-20 02:07:50

I saw this Turkish film Uzak (distant) three years ago at a film festival in Pittsburgh. Later I watched the interview of the director Nuri Bilge Ceylan on DVD and decided to write something. It is a very slow-paced film with minimal characters, dialogues and plot. It is a story about two brothers:...

Jasper 2022-09-12 04:40:33

It's the first Ceylon movie I've watched the full movie without being sleepy, so it doesn't feel so dull. Just a personal assumption, the first three feature-length films of Ceylon can almost be seen as a systematic trilogy, from Kasaba to Clouds of May to this Uzak, which are inextricably linked...

Antwan 2022-09-11 13:25:27

A+ Reading Pamuk's "The Museum of Innocence", following Pamuk's words throughout the streets of Istanbul such as Beyoglu, Nisantash, Taksim, etc. during the day; Substantiation of the city. The former speaks of a man who is broken for love, while the latter speaks of a man who is tired of survival....

Alysha 2022-09-06 08:15:30

Rural people are not particular, and they like to spit, flick cigarette ashes, don't wash socks, and put clothes everywhere when they come into the city—it seems that relatives in rural areas all over the world are the same. The houses in the countryside are large, the houses are far apart, and the...

Ladarius 2022-09-06 02:10:30

The unremarkable loneliness and sorrow of little people, the unremarkable alienation of brotherhood, and the unremarkable life stories, expressed in the lens of Ceylon, are natural and vivid. The heavy snow in Istanbul, the sticky mice, the mucus in the corner of Mam's eyes, and the look of Yosef...

Hildegard 2022-09-05 02:26:30

　 Two lonely people, a lonely house, for them, the distance is like a cruise ship sailing all over the world, one can't live without the house, the other has no money for a cruise ship. The film "Distant" uses extremely euphemistic, soothing, and dull methods to vividly express the friction...

Myrtle 2022-09-04 02:22:32

The winter in Istanbul under the wide-angle lens is too beautiful and too deep, wind chimes are ringing outside the window, and the sun illuminates half of the hillside. The protagonist Mahmut's ordinary life begins here, even if his original intention to walk out of the town with a dream...

Toy 2022-09-02 05:04:24

In 2002's "Distant", the ideological gap exists between Mahmut, who was born in the countryside and established a firm foothold in Istanbul with his own efforts, and his cousin Yusov, who just came to the big city from the countryside to seek life. Although they were born the same, their...