Gegen die Wand
I’m being shameless, I know. Actually I watched the film with two people from the dormitory and the title actually is a reference to a tasteless joke while watching it. We were talking about what “french”, “spanish”, “greek” and the likes are in sex language (especially greek is kinda ugh, ahem), and then we saw a scene where the protagonist cut herself in the wrist with lots of blood running. And then somebody said: “Yeah, and this is turkish.” It’s nice to see somebody so sarcastic as I am, hehe, but I guess I talked too much during the film.
Seriously, this film had a tad bit too much blood – but somehow, it didn’t bother me at all. I am kind of used to slightly extreme reactions to seemingly everday problems, so I found the characters actually very understandable. I am all in for the “I want to live my life”-message.
Which brings me to the topic: Sure, in some ways, the film truly is very emotional, but somehow I didn’t feel like watching it the whole time. I talked a lot, about the film itself and lots of OT stuff… so that finally, we didn’t even realize what exactly happened at the end. It was a tragic ending of course, and somehow I didn’t like it. What the point in getting together and then leaving him again? Also, I kind of blame her for having gotten a child even though she told him she would wait. (My God, what a bitch.) Of course I am aware that her love for him was too self-destructive, but she didn’t need to make a child to sort out her life, right?
Maybe I should also leave a few words on the sexuality that was portrayed. In most of the cases, I rolled my eyes and made fun of it. It’s difficult to explain, but this way of moving, or the camera angle, or whatever, something made me feel very alienated. In fact, I am quite sure I would not have moved and behaved like this myself and that must have caused this weird feeling of ridiculousness when I see other people doing this. It’s a similar effect to the awkward kiss of Jude Law and Julia Roberts during their first scene in Closer.
I actually like Sibel Kekilli even though I really dislike her voice (or the way she speaks), it kinds of make her feel like an amateur. But throughout the film, her complex role gave her the possibility to actually act quite well! Also, her appearance has the ‘something’ *g*
Oh right! Aside from the message, I mainly liked the love story between Cahit and Sibel… the beginning was slightly confusing but as soon as they actually really married, I was only waiting for them to get closer – and I was not disappointed. The love story itself began very subtly and I really liked the dramaturgy until the ‘accident’ – to me, it was the highlight of the film, and that alone was enough to make it worth watching it.