Shipload of clichés! I know it is Feo's first movie, but the way she tried to take will not take her to anywhere... We know how many good Iranian directors failed so bad when they just chose to grasp "the oriental stuff" and polish it for the Western movie theaters.
It seems like Feo Aladag, as a director & writer, has a lot to say, but since she just decides to mix up 'every single ideas' in her first movie, everything looks so simplistic, and kind of banal. There is nothing much to talk about the acting, but the plot is full of clichés. The women's tragedy in this world, especially in the more traditional cultures, is unbearable truth, but the director failed big time to show the complex natures of this problem and its outcomes... It seems to me, the director just got satisfied by showing directly how bad the family is. She just doesn't put effort to deepen the characters and their relationships. In some scene, it's seen very amateurish.
To name just one example, we can simply put that the movie is based on a tradition family which got angry of their daughter since she left her husband, right? It is okay, but in the later scenes we see that another daughter of the same family got pregnant without marriage, and the thing the same father does is just bribing the lover, who got his daughter pregnant. The father, who even decided to kill one of his daughters just because she left her husband, bribed the lvoer who got his another daughter pregnant? Does it make any sense? It could make some sense, if the director showed us the complex nature of the traditional family, but she just satisfied with the cliches...
It seems like Feo Aladag, as a director & writer, has a lot to say, but since she just decides to mix up 'every single ideas' in her first movie, everything looks so simplistic, and kind of banal. There is nothing much to talk about the acting, but the plot is full of clichés. The women's tragedy in this world, especially in the more traditional cultures, is unbearable truth, but the director failed big time to show the complex natures of this problem and its outcomes... It seems to me, the director just got satisfied by showing directly how bad the family is. She just doesn't put effort to deepen the characters and their relationships. In some scene, it's seen very amateurish.
To name just one example, we can simply put that the movie is based on a tradition family which got angry of their daughter since she left her husband, right? It is okay, but in the later scenes we see that another daughter of the same family got pregnant without marriage, and the thing the same father does is just bribing the lover, who got his daughter pregnant. The father, who even decided to kill one of his daughters just because she left her husband, bribed the lvoer who got his another daughter pregnant? Does it make any sense? It could make some sense, if the director showed us the complex nature of the traditional family, but she just satisfied with the cliches...