Do Not Disturb

Well let's be honest. Turkish cinema is not one of the brightest these days. We have Nuri Bilge Ceylan doing some arthouse movies once in a couple years taking away Cannes prizes and thats it. Thank God there is another man who tries to do something new with each of his projects. Cem Yilmaz. He seems like Fellini and Benigni's love child with some hardcore Turkish ancestry. In this movie he somehow did manage to show us the whole country with only a handful of actors and one stage. We all are already disturbed. Every one of us just wanna have o normal life. A bit of happiness. Love for sure. Why is it so hard to some to achieve such basic needs? Is it their fault? Is it because of everyone else? The pandemic? God? I dont know! Neither does Isac! He tries and hopes for the best. Just like you and me. Not gonna lie, a little bit more like me.

If you think that this will be your average Turkish feel-good movie - think again... The start, even up until half of the movie, takes you one way to then take on a veeery dark twist, because anguish has just entered the building as a guest - a crazy night at a Turkish motel indeed.

I would definitely recommend this movie to everyone who wants to be a bit surprised. Nice camera work and the actors have also been well-chosen. Deals with many currently relevant topics like social media and mental health. Liked the fact that I had no idea how exactly this movie is going to end - definitely not predictable!

There is a lot of similarities between The Joker and Do Not Disturb. Colors, lightnings, angles ect. Ect. Both films have the subject of a "stage of insanity." Also, this film got a reference to the character "Joker" in a scene where Ayzek and the girl when they smoke in front of the hotel. So it is no secret. But if we say this is a bad Joker copycat it could be unfair.

The details about the "hotel business" is insanely correct. Ayzek getting the wrong name tag at the first scene, being a bad hotel's night manager makes him smoke so often, no one is coming for check-in ect. Everything you see about the hotel business is very correct.

Characters felt very real and I like the scenario.

Only problem about the film is, it really doesn't feed the expectations with that final and I was expecting something big at the end. My suggestion, if the final is going to be the worst part of the film, don't try to make one.

Also what was the part about Ayzek felt down to that car? If it was Davut's room, what did we see? I think it's not connected to somewhere that is a problem, because you gave so much clue but there is no puzzle.

In total it could be one of the best films ever made in Turkish cinema but it could be better and if someone going to do that, who could be better than Cem Yilmaz?

If there is more given, than more expected.

If you follow the interviews of CY, you will see a lot of references to his personal views on people / typologies in social media. The subject and the flow of the story is nice.

I just did not like the parts related to the academician character. I found them too didactive and a little bit cliche.

Another explicitly cliche story was reference to the violence against woman.

If CY stops this didactive attitude, his movies will be much much better. He says he doesn't care much what critics say, but I think he cares too much and this causes him to be not totally free with the story.

The dance scene in pharmacy is epic!

I am proud that we have Cem Yilmaz in Turkish cinema, but I think we still haven't seen his maximum potential.

I saw and loved the character of Ayzek in the movie '2 Arada' and it was the strongest movie among the Dark/Comedy Movies and the character was well written.

But I didn't get the same strong feeling for this movie in general. I think the movie has a very sympathetic first half and what it wants to tell is clear, but in the second half, while giving the psychological thriller part, it gets boring and that sympathetic part we know was going to the background for me. But I found the acting, scene cuts and shots quite adequate. I wish it had a very strong script.

Especially the ending was very predictable. I wish they were in search of something different. Still, it is a snack movie that can be watched in the evening.