Daha

Daha, or in English More, is a near master piece of a Turkish movie, made by first time director Onur Saylak, which is an actor with some very good films in his portfolio. He is also a very good director, this film proves.

We meet 14 year old Gaza. Quite grown for his age, and we soon get to know why. He lives alone with his father which is a criminal, earning his money on human trade with refugees, forcing Gaza to join in as his co-worker. Gaza doesn't like this, and already in the opening of the film we get to know that the father is regarding himself as the most important man in the world. He's an upright swine, also treating his son like trash.

The film is beautifully filmed, and we have both great acting and great scenery, mixed with some nasty stuff when it comes to moral.

The film is very recommended, and even though it is severe, I would say anyone above twelve could watch it without being traumatized. This film gives out much reality about the refugee shipping over to Europe, and is well worth a watch.

Young Hayat Van Eck does a phenomenal job as young Gaza, but also the disgusting father is well played by Ahmet Mümtaz Taylan. Recommended!

Ahmet Mümtaz Taylan was great in this one but overall i found the film very average. the climax wasnt that schoking or effective on me i wasnt thrilled

A Turkish drama; A story set on the Aegean coast of Turkey about a 14 year old boy, full of promise, dragged down to the level of his brutal father who is a people trafficker. There are missteps such as a preachy, sporadic voiceover which only reduces the tension and lessens the drama. But, this is an impressive film about the ever-worsening mindset of a criminal who is intent on trying to control an out-of-control situation and the pathway of criminality it carves for good, impressionable people in their purview.

First of all, "Daha" is very very upper than I expected. Director Onur Saylak is, interestingly, a very popular actor in Turkey. Such popularity despite his filmography which mostly contains "art movies" is a consequence of Saylak's existence in popular Tv-series in addition to cinema. Though I like his acting performances and most of movie projects he placed, I didn't expect such a susccesful experiment from his first director seat.

Daha is a very very stronge movie by meaning of character improvement, visual aesthetic, cinematography, political references, knitted plotting, balanced tension and connection way to reality.

The movie is inspired by a famous novel. I know the novelist Hakan Günday due to his first novel but I haven't read Daha, yet. So, I can't estimate any link between the movie and the novel. But, Daha is an inspired movie rather than novel adaptation. So, it's not false to evaluate this movie as an independent production.

Applaud to Onur Saylak, his team and actors/actresses!

This was a great debut for Onur Saylak's career. Acting of Ahmet Mümtaz Taylan and Hayat van Eck is so amazing that they draw you towards their character easily. I loved Tuba Büyüküstün's portrayal of a Syrian refugee which showed how they try to survive. The story had so many great mesagges in it showing how the things we go through when we are young affect our character. The coloring and lighting of the movie was great especially the ones where Ahad was driving his truck.

Gaza's character could have been written better as I think that during some moments that would help his character progress he didn't act the way he should have and most of the scenes where we were about to see the movie and the characters progress were meaninglessly cut which these were the biggest problems of the movie that ruined its potential. There were so many great shots but there were so many bad ones aswell especially some handheld shots.

The movie had so much potential but it is still a great movie that gives its message with fantastic acting.