kazim094 Reviews

Black is Beltza II: Ainhoa (2022)

Great insight into Basque culture and independence movements in 80s

[10/10 · 6 October 2022]

This comic gives deeper insight into the resistance that little nations had after suffering from generations of being suppressed and how they keep blooming in spite of rotten, colonial, fascist governments (USA as head if them).

Apart from carrying core elements of Basque resistance, and people who sacrificed their lives for better and healthy future of the rest, it also shows how governments are corrupt, and how big corporations with support of governments benefited from AIDS crisis, how they look for reasons to captivate young minds, steal the light out of them by dragging them to drug abuse and physical silence.

Seeing the movie, left me with one hope for this world. May the flowers blossom brighter and hopes never disappear for the ones who seek freedom. Love, art and Ainhoa are the revolutionary ones that keep this hope alive.

The Club (2021–2023)

Great production, nice introduction to turkish politics, unnecessary complications

[9/10 · 10 January 2022]

I can honestly say that this is one of the best turkish productions that has ever been published in Netflix, after Bir Baskadir and Fatma.

I would appreciate if sephardic culture was more prioritized during the show, but I am still satisfied with what has been shown so far.

The only thing they need to in the oncoming seasons is to keep stories more simple. I am an expert when it comes to turkish sense of drama, since I grew up in it. But what makes a production grow higher in quality is the way it provides silent dialogues between characters and viewer. Overreaction and instinctive development of drama keeps us away from the main focus of the show - which is the time period we are watching, Istanbul and its cultural richness, foreign culture that we are interested to explore, and struggles they go through during shapeshifting political interests.

White Lines (2020)

empty story filled unnecessarily with techno & spirituality & orgies

[1/10 · 15 May 2020]

I really tried to sympathise but it is so hard to get connected to the storyline or characters. everyone is pictured like a comic book character (which isn't even successfully done). it is probably written and designed to show-off about drugs and demonic lifestyle of rich people, just like those medieval kingdom feasts with wine. it doesn't seem realystic in any sense and it creeps you out. especially that techno mourning session which has no sense!

My Brilliant Friend: I fantasmi (2020) Season 2, Episode 7

About the state of not going beyond 'quasi'

[10/10 · 25 April 2020]

This episode is the fundamental brickstone for the whole story. Although the narrator always knew what is the difference between her and the main protagonist, she lets them down in words, out of the mixed routes of her mind. Punchline was realisation of the quasi-state of the observer. Once you realize the state and break out of it, you get to live your own story.

Unorthodox (2020)

A great show about traumatized memory and coping with it

[10/10 · 8 April 2020]

I saw the film more as a socialistic review, more than a drama. Because in the end, everything finds its own way. What's left beyond is the memory of it and just like individuals, societies live with it either. It shows us why we should deal with the past in a peaceful way , if we want to keep on improving.

Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)

No distinction between any type of art

[10/10 · 8 March 2020]

No definition, just imagine a portrait of a lady on fire. This includes everything. Being alive in the winds directing the fire. The fire inside express itself outwards. What did we just observe? Was it love, survival instinct, a smile, desire to kiss or all our feelings expressed?

Frontera Verde (2019)

Out of cliché, teaching adventure

[9/10 · 2 September 2019]

It had very good approach to human nature and our way of corrupting everything around us. I liked the way the show was teaching us about the rituals as those rituals got into a form of meaning we could get something put of it. The last scene was cinematographically good and you really have to figure out what the show wanted to say by looking at the human nature.

Fleabag (2016–2019)

Honest, sad and funny...

[10/10 · 9 April 2019]

It takes an emotional genius to write and express feelings this way. I hope, I will get a chance to see her real-time performance at least once in my lifetime. The most important part of her art is being honest!

Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018)

Wish they made us to connect better with characters.

[7/10 · 29 December 2018]

I really like the essence of the story, which is shaped in some kind of modern adaptation of Alice in the Wonderland. They only showed symbolic references to the origin, but they did not make us really connect to characters. I liked that the character Kitty was stuck in the story, as long as we see her she always has the same storyline ,just like the Mad Hatter. but, it was not as groundbreaking as I have expected it to be. still, worth the time.

Kidding (2018–2020)

A journey that teaches through a painful path

[10/10 · 18 October 2018]

It is the perfect guide through our life paths which is filled with never-ending troubles. I have never seen such a powerfully honest show about grief since Six Feet Under. And the characters, the usage of a kid inside. Sure anybody would realize what's deep within.