As a veteran theater writer and player, Yilmaz Erdogan's first movies, although being funny to average cinema audience, were not more than theatrical sketches on the big screen.
But by this movie, he really managed to shot a real cinema movie. It's got every aspect of a cinema movie, nice plot, good detailed characters, telling the story by acting and good direction, not by direct dialogs.
You might see critics or news about the movie that're saying "it's a movie about Istanbul or it's no more than beautiful air-videos of the city" but this is not true, it's just an illusion that our media likes to create on everything valuable in order to make it look less than actually it is --what a devil act--.
I might call it as a funny love story adventure.
Of course there are some flaws with the movie. It's hard to grasp what kind of relationship Erdogan's character has got with his ex-wife and his daughter and why he has to spy his own daughter and need to kidnap her from her school. They are the scenes that Erdogan felt the story gets weak and he used direct dialogs.
Place selections although being diverse, it's sometimes confusing to audience, ex-wife and her dentist husband seem to be neighbors of the other mafia group? I think, there is only one condition in Erdogan's mind for being rich and it is living in Degirmenkoy! Last but not least, no character represents common Turkish people in this movie, I'm not saying this because I think every movie should do it, but from boring professor to mafia boys they are not like majority living in this country and movie doesn't actually tell anything important while claiming it does. So, after a couple of months nobody will remember this movie ever existed.
I hope Erdogan's next projects will be more strong and closer to real people's real lives...
But by this movie, he really managed to shot a real cinema movie. It's got every aspect of a cinema movie, nice plot, good detailed characters, telling the story by acting and good direction, not by direct dialogs.
You might see critics or news about the movie that're saying "it's a movie about Istanbul or it's no more than beautiful air-videos of the city" but this is not true, it's just an illusion that our media likes to create on everything valuable in order to make it look less than actually it is --what a devil act--.
I might call it as a funny love story adventure.
Of course there are some flaws with the movie. It's hard to grasp what kind of relationship Erdogan's character has got with his ex-wife and his daughter and why he has to spy his own daughter and need to kidnap her from her school. They are the scenes that Erdogan felt the story gets weak and he used direct dialogs.
Place selections although being diverse, it's sometimes confusing to audience, ex-wife and her dentist husband seem to be neighbors of the other mafia group? I think, there is only one condition in Erdogan's mind for being rich and it is living in Degirmenkoy! Last but not least, no character represents common Turkish people in this movie, I'm not saying this because I think every movie should do it, but from boring professor to mafia boys they are not like majority living in this country and movie doesn't actually tell anything important while claiming it does. So, after a couple of months nobody will remember this movie ever existed.
I hope Erdogan's next projects will be more strong and closer to real people's real lives...