The best two hours I've ever spent watching a movie. This was my first modern Turkish feature film I've seen. "Modern" being the age of smartphones and social media.
The movie is a story of circumstance and opportunity. The main protagonist is the center of the film and his acting in my belief deserves an award, along with the director. The film follows a man who is apparently fed up with his routine and mundane existence. An opportunity presents him when his co-worker, a married woman whose husband is serving a seven year jail term for forgery, invites him to her house for a meal.
Soon these two are caught up in a bizarre relationship - if you can call it a relationship. The rest of the movie deals with all the subsequent events that follow from this relationship.
Plot: Ercan Kesal plays the role of Nihat, a man works in a kitchen in Istanbul. He is invited by Ayse(Maryam Zaree) a recent employee who works as a dishwasher to her house for a meal. There he spies Ayse's marriage and is amazed at the similarity between himself and her husband. Nihat soon moves in with Ayse and soon starts to adopt a strange behavior of copying Ayse's husband who is serving seven years in jail for forgery.
A very good movie. A sublime viewing for me. This movie can be classified as a situational drama film and not a thriller.
