Bizim Büyük Çaresizliğimiz "Our Grand Despair"

"Our Grand Despair" is the second movie -after "Kaybedenler Kulübü"- I went to the theater with high hopes but returned home with small impressions. The movie was first screened in Berlin Film Festival and then won awards in Nürnberg Film Festival. The producers are names we are familiar from the movie magazine Altyazı Nadir Öperli and Yamaç Okur.

The trend in the latest independant movies is the lives of trios that are in the fringe of friendship and love. In this movie, what was new was that the love-friendship of the men were not shaded by any other relationship. And the theme "love" was not drawn with its usual borders.
However the scenes where they walk with their eyes closed or where Ender shows Nihal "Catcher in the Rye" as the book he reads over and over are very standart.

Although the story is appealing the movie does not present anthing inspiring.

I found acting of Nihal weak as well. She was very artificial in some scenes for instance in her almost-intimate scenes with Ender or when she is suprised with his stories.

Although the movie is supposed to be a high rhythm one with humorous scenes when you look at the story, it is rather slow. It is a movie which is nice to watch and where sometimes it makes you laugh with the irony of the characters.

Nine Types of Light

TV on the Radio has its new album about! Nine Types of Light.

Not so sure if it has the musical richness it had in its previous albums.

Last Night

The movie was a GALA in the Istanbul Film Festival. It well deserves it as it pushes you to think about what is trust, what is deceiving, to what extend you can resist. Two questions that came to my mind after the movie: Whose story is more appealing or irresistable? Who cheated more heavily?

Drei

Drei("Three") is a movie of a love triangle all connected to one another, (spoiler!) which in the end finds the best solution possible in theoratical terms. The notions that there is always an alternative way and cheating is not always a handicap find its place in this movie.

The strongest character is Adam. Although in one point, the viewer thinks "Ok, now he is left alone because both of his lovers have a partner" he does not seem to expect much romance from his relationships, in contrast to the other two characters who already had a romantic, sound relationship. Although it is not a bad movie, I should say after the first half, the movie focuses too much on the sexual relationships of each character and is far from giving any original impulse to the viewers.

Hayali Aşıklar

The Canadian movie, Les Amours Imaginaires, excited me so much that I thought it would be the hittest for me however it turned out to be a big disappointment.There was no scenario in the first place. I don't think the trio even shared anything... Only the costumes of the girl kept me entertained since she dressed really retro and reminded me of girls on the streets of Montmarte, Paris. The director Xavier Dolan tries to fill the gap of the lack of the story by slow motion shots but that makes the movie even slower. The close-ups he uses extensively are finds their place well, though. And so, I do not think it is a movie which is more than any experimental-trying-to-be-independant one.

Animal Kingdom

(spoiler!) In this movie of the kingdom, each animal falls off one by one like a leaf. The personalities are

complex, it's hard to sympathize with any of the characters and get ready

to be baffled, although they do not show, some people change.. As I feel that I will spoil ore, the more I tell more about the movie, go and see for yourself. It is defnititely an absorbing movie with complex characters.

Inside Jobs

The documentary "Inside Jobs" does not tell anyting surprising about the 2001 financial crises.

Everybody knows the crisis helped "some people" to be wealthier than before. However

a regular person, not in the field of finance, can well get a good grasp of how things relate technically among the mortgages, the banks, the investment banks and specultors. So, the documentary is more like a course, one should not expect the humor Michael Moore puts in his movies.

As a person who studied Economics, to me, it was a bit scary that all the theorists and -as they are shown to us in the university classes- "the big guys" of Economics such as Mishkin, Roubini are all consultants to the giant companies. It becomes so easy to see that what they recommended in the "modern" economic textbooks are actually what the demand of their clients are. Decisions and theoratical resolutions in favor of the managers of the companies. It is a pity how these people have literally no answer to justify their recommendations.

Well... everyone gets in the cycle, one way or another..