I've watched a Kusturica and thought why not go more east and watch this turkish movie, which used to be in many "imdb-top250"-lists and i had in line so many years now.
When I started to look for this film it had a rating of 8.6 and now it has 8.2, which is the same rating of Kusturica's "Time of the gypsies" and i am really sorry for all the turkish friends and their fandom, but this film really doesn't deserve such a high rating: The actors are okay, the main actor is even quite good and charming, others - like his love interest - were even somewhat bad. The plot is not that interesting, could have gone more deeply into the characters and some of the twists were also quite predictable, though i liked the ending, the last 20-25 minutes. Camera and Light was well done. It's a movie nobody outside of turkey must see, really not, so please, turkish collegues(!), dont vote for it with a 8 or even more, cause this one is NOT a masterpiece of world cinema and it should fall under the rating of 8.0. It's okay, some can even say it's very good (i really can understand that), but it doesn't deserve a rating more than 7.6. I gave it a 7, which means "good". And... dam'it, how hard was it - to get this film!!!
When I started to look for this film it had a rating of 8.6 and now it has 8.2, which is the same rating of Kusturica's "Time of the gypsies" and i am really sorry for all the turkish friends and their fandom, but this film really doesn't deserve such a high rating: The actors are okay, the main actor is even quite good and charming, others - like his love interest - were even somewhat bad. The plot is not that interesting, could have gone more deeply into the characters and some of the twists were also quite predictable, though i liked the ending, the last 20-25 minutes. Camera and Light was well done. It's a movie nobody outside of turkey must see, really not, so please, turkish collegues(!), dont vote for it with a 8 or even more, cause this one is NOT a masterpiece of world cinema and it should fall under the rating of 8.0. It's okay, some can even say it's very good (i really can understand that), but it doesn't deserve a rating more than 7.6. I gave it a 7, which means "good". And... dam'it, how hard was it - to get this film!!!