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Tas Kagit Makas (2024)
One of a Kind, Breathtaking, Should be Translated into Different Languages!!
Imagine a country in which justice system has been a playground for the rich, whereas the only choice for the poor is to acquiesce. Imagine a country in which the only typical plot for series is cheating, often "beautified" by spineless characters and indecent plots. This series is here to break the cycle with its plot & characters. And This series was born from this country. This means a lot! This means a spark of hope, a sign of positive change and many more things.
It is as if a mixture of the series called Sahsiyet (Persona) and other crime movies were wrapped around and turned into something original and thus a masterpiece was born! This series needs to be immediately translated into English and other languages.
I rarely leave reviews on movies/series in IMDB, but I couldn't stop myself from praising this masterpiece and give it what it deserves, making everyone see once again that this series should never be forgotten and it needs to be talked about, showed in every place possible!
Blue Velvet (1986)
One of the most easy going movies by Lynch
I'd like to say this one is probably one of the less disturbing but more mysterious movies by Lynch, because the story line is somewhat typical but it is enhanced by disturbing scenes.
I don't know if I am the only one who thinks there was a bit of a young David Lynch in Jeffrey in terms of his looks and a bit of his character. There is not much standing out for the character Jeffrey, because he represents a typical man who has his own fears, desires, conscience and so on just like a typical human. However, the mysterious and disturbing parts of the movie were backed by mostly Frank and somewhat Dorothy.
My interpretation is, Frank was abused severely as a kid, most likely by his mother so he ended up developing perverted fantasies and a sick perception of intimacy. So he ended up being very abusive.
Dorothy, on the other hand, fell victim to abuser Frank that was also abused, just like in a non-ending vicious cycle. She, however, developed a masochistic victim mentality as a result and could not receive real love and affection Jeffrey offered to her.
The name of the movie "blue velvet", probably symbolises some traumatic experience the first abused character Frank had to go through and then passed on to others. However, it was not exactly expressed in a highly mysterious and shocking and disturbing way. It was a bit complicated and failed to give the expected shock and disturbance to the audience and that, in my humble opinion, is the biggest reason why this movie didn't get a better score.
SKY kaeseul (2018)
Unique, Realistic and Satisfying!!
This is not your typical drama movies, in which you happen to see exaggerated events with dramatic turns. This is not the typical crime movie either, in the sense that the villain is not someone you'd come across to in most of the crime movies. The villain is not a serial killer, but a serial manipulator. You see more than a cold-hearted, neat, sociopathic, power freak murderer. You see a coach who herself is the victim of the system, reflecting the guilt and utter shame the system caused back to other victims of the same system.
Nothing is black and white in this series. Just like life itself, everyone in the series is somewhat responsible for the tragedies they experience in and outside the castle. That makes the story more touchy and impressive.
The narration is celeverly thought and expressed. The story has good suspension and turning points. It is so satisfying, also, to finally see a series/movie having a more detailed ending, again, making the story a lot more realistic and impressive. You don't have a open ending, or the events don't get intense in the end. The events get intense and get solved the episode before the ending and then in the ending you happened to see everyone's growth and happiness in detail, which makes it quite satisfactory.
The topic choice is on point. As I am a Turkish person, I can relate to almost everything related to this series, since, just like in Korea, Turkish students including myself, have struggled from the same issues if not more. Assumably, someone from Europe would find it hard to relate to the topic, but it affects so many young people and their parents sometimes to that extend as it was shown in the series. Therefore, I believe It is also useful for people and families that are in these situations.
To sum up, It is a very fullfilling, uplifting and satisfying series to watch. I would definitely recommend it to everyone, whether or not they have experienced the same/similar issues. All things aside, it's a great drama and crime series and it would be great to see the new season soon!
The Blair Witch Project (1999)
Amateurish, not a horror movie
Honestly, it was one of the least horrorful movies I've seen. I don't think this movie should be categorised as an horror movie. It can at most be categorised as mysterious and that's it.
Like what they were thinking of while making this movie? There is no real plot.The whole movie is set upon/relies on a group of young people amateurishly filming each other while cursing and screaming at each other.
No scary visuals, because the visuals they put aren't even visible. No actual witch or anything. It's just as if you are watching a low budget Paranormal Activity movie amateurishly shot by a bunch of university students to have some fun.
I am not against realistic horror movies,however this movie was just lazy and uncreative. You can still create a nice, interesting, unique plot with a limited, modern day horror type of plot, but this was just crappy.
They didn't show anything except for some weird, annoying audio (annoying, rather than scary when it's supposed to be scary) and some unclear camera shots from the supposed witch's approach and the rest is just young people wandering around the woods.
In the beginning, the interviews they did with the locals kind of created some suspension and tension, but they after they got in the woods, boom, it all disappeared. Then they jumped into the map thing, which is ludicrous, as one of them intentionally throws the map into the river and none of them go check for it.
To sum up, this movie is pretentious and a waste of time. Fine, if you want to try new things and give a different approach to classical horror movies with realism, you can do it, but that doesn't mean you should take out everything and just show people amateurish and dull scenes just to appear "different". If this movie got that much score, it's only because people think it's different, however, it's far from being a horror/thriller movie.
Replicas (2018)
New Approach: Robots Do Not Necessarily Have to BE ENEMIES!
I wasn't expecting this much from the movie when I first decided to see it. However, Keanu once more proved that he is a flawless actor and he was very suitable for this role. The movie was quite realistic and conciving except for the exaggerations at some scenes. The plot reminded me of Frankenstein but on a different level.
Bill (Keanu Reeves) was the creator of the 3 monsters (his family members) and he didn't only settle with this result, but he also brought a new approach to what is called new life in a robotic body. Bill actually replicated himself into a machine so to speak. However, on the contrary to the belief that robots will be enemies of the human beings, the movie brought a new perspective about turning technology into some kind of an emotional bond between humans and robots. Therefore, the movie reflected the idea that the synthetic future does not have to be completely separated from the emotional, on the contrary it can be adapted to humane emotions and morals. Moreover, it approached the technology in a realistic way in terms of combining good and evil between robots and humans and reflecting them with flaws and fragility.
To sum up, the movie was deeper than I expected it to be. It reminded me of Gertrude Stein's "A rose is a rose is a rose..." idea, and Marilyn Manson's "You are just a copy of an immitation" notion. So in a way, deep down the message was to reflect and express the fact that you do not need to become a machine in order to be counted as "replica" as you already are an immitation of an immitation.
My Friend Dahmer (2017)
Gives the sense that directors & story writer acted cowardish
I watched the two of the earlier Dahmer movies and this one is the least murderous one. Ironically, this is supposed to be a serial killer movie, not a movie about a high-school kid's depressed life. However, it gives you the sense that somehow directors or the story writer intentionally excluded the murder scenes and focused more on the daily part of Dahmer's life for some reason.
My favourite Dahmer movie named as "Dahmer" displayed many of Dahmer's murders and the other movie called "The Secret Life: Jeffrey Dahmer" also did that, even though it wasn't very convincing and at some parts of the movie, things made no sense. I expected this movie to be extremely graphic and disturbing, because i thought if the old ones were that explicit, This one should have been highly grotesque but highly convincing at the same time.
The movie did not reach up to my expectations, because of two main reasons: The first one is that it focused too much on Dahmer's high-school years, which i think is unnecessary because not much happens during his school years and this makes the plot boring and uninteresting. The second one is that the plot was blurred at some parts of the movie. For instance, Jeffrey sleeps with the jogger&doctor's dead body and then the movie displays a dead body of a wild bear in a blurred way. Thus, the movie was filled with open-ended scenes, which as a whole seemed like an incomplete puzzle.
However, I have to admit that the protagonist (Ross Lynch) did a great job on acting the role of Dahmer and the resemblance was very high. Hence, i would like to see more action and interesting, also exciting scene,s attributing to the high resemblance and good acting of Dahmer, which as a result would create a harmonious, complete and unique movie. I dare the directors to be more creative, eccentric and courageous for a movie based on the story of a real-life serial killer like this one.