By: df

df — Fri, 13 May 2016 11:24:06 +0000

Nuri Bilge Ceylan heavily influences Turkish directors, but the movie
was excruciatingly long and mixtures of all that social responsibility
issues were boring.

By: AccidentalVisitor

AccidentalVisitor — Fri, 13 May 2016 11:24:06 +0000

I had a problem with the ending as well. But getting back to your point regarding the truck driver, my issue is that in your review and in the NYFF advertisement we are told why Zehra is drawn to the man but we don't get a clear indication of any of this in the actual movie. I know films are supposed to be "show, not tell", but there wasn't enough show in this case. Obviously Zehra wants a way out, an escape to a better life or at least a different one. But does the driver represent that simply becuse he travels long distances in a truck? Wouldn't a relationship with any older man, regardless of his occupation, have given her the (false) hope that a new life was just around the corner? Also I don't buy into your theory (if it was one) that something illicit occurred between them during that first night they spent together in the living room of a friend's home. My take was that there was a bit of a discomfort not just because of age differences and their relative lack of familiarity with each other. They were also uncomfotable perhaps with their attraction to one another first experienced during their somewhat intimate dancing in the post-wedding ceremony. Recall that the next time she sees him (or his truck) she smiles and runs out of her workplace to get a glimpse of him while standing in the cold. She seems…happy. Happy enough to momentarily forget about the temperature and her job. Perhaps I'm wrong. Anyway my biggest complaint may be how the driver departed from the story entirely almost 2/3 a way into the film. I suppose I am to assume he abandoned her or she didn't want to tell him about her little secret.

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