Monday 19 January 2009

Three Monkeys


With his latest work, 3 Monkeys, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, the talented Turkish director, presents a masterpiece. I have seen the movie yesterday and I am amazed by the poetic expression of Ceylan.

The movie is dark and painful. It questions the moral of society and how one suspends himself from other people's pain and suffering. Even though it is a story of a family and the paths they take to avoid facing the truth, it's also about personal tendency to close our eyes to that we prefer to ignore.

Shots are brilliantly composed and the colors match the mood of the film perfectly. 3 Monkeys is such a great art-house film and a proof of how much a director can show his brilliance. Ceylan's movie has recently won the best director award in Cannes. It is now included in the shortlist for last eight in the Foreign Film Oscar. Since it is not a commercial movie I doubt that it will win the Oscar but it is very obvious who I am rooting for.

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