After such a short semester break we are back in college. I am sure most of you feel that the 2 week holiday wasn’t quite enough. If it helps, you are not alone, I think the same way. Hehe… I hope some of you found time to watch most of the latest movies during this holiday period. Although I was kind of busy with some personal stuff, I found time to watch the newest movie by Yılmaz Erdoğan, “Vizontele Tuuba”.
I watched the movie a week ago and I thought I was really late since the release date was the 23rd of January in Turkey. However, now I believe, watching the movie later gave me the opportunity to observe the ideas about the movie before seeing it. It was out of the ordinary for me to hear so many ideas that differ from each other concerning one film. Among all of the differences, most of the criticisms were based on the audiences’ expectations for more comedy. All I heard was: “The first movie was funnier, this time, I did not laugh at all. I am so disappointed.” To be honest, it is very pathetic to know that most of the audience felt this way. It is true that there was not a clear advertised over-view about the type of movie that this was going to be. No one said that this movie would be a comedy film. In my opinion, feeling disappointed because of less comedy and skipping what is being presented is a huge disrespect to the effort of those important actors. If you search the Internet about the movie, you will find numerous details about how the movie was made. Nonetheless, you will realize how those people put so much effort into this movie. I think the aim in the scenario was to visualize what people from eastern villages had gone through during the 1970s-1980s in Turkey. As the movie shows, during 1970-1980, individuals from eastern villages had many dilemmas because of firstly, TV and later on the aggression based on the differences between political ideas. This is simply what the scenario wants to transmit to the audience. Actually the comedy comes later based on the sense of humor of Yılmaz Erdoğan and the ignorance of the villagers during those times.
I firmly believe that the movie was really good in terms of acting, visual art, presentation and had a good sense of humor. Moreover, it’s nice to see so many good actors and actresses act together. I think it is a visual feast for most of the movie addicts and fans of the BKM (Beşiktaş Kültür Merkezi) players. Thus, whatever you heard, I hope you guys did not get confused and watched the movie.

Atilla Karakurum (IE/III)