This movie tries to show the life of a religious girl in Turkey who wears a headscarf. However headscarf is a very controversial issue in Turkey and the producers could not escape from their secularist views on the issue. They have no idea about the real daily life of religious people in Turkey so they just depict clichés in their minds. It is sad that these people do not know anything about the daily life of a large portion of Turkish population. However it is tragic that they make a movie about it without learning their subject material. I think they don't care about it they just want to boost box office returns by taking advantage of a controversial subject. They especially target typical moviegoer in Turkey, who is a person living in a city and has above average education and income. This prototype also corresponds to relatively secularist, not much religious people. So they show them what they would like to see as of 2010. Similar to what "Yalniz Degilsiniz" was showing to religious people around 15 years ago.
It is good to see that the secularist camp in Turkey stopped seeing religious people as an imam with dirty beards, who swindle people, who use religion for his own interests, who take advantage of naive religious women etc. However now we have a cliché of semi-educated religious businessman who is an autocrat and misogynist, who makes his wealth thanks to corruption etc.
So if you are not a secularist who would like to perform mental masturbation by watching caricatures created by another secularist, I don't recommend this movie.
