Bihter

"Forbidden love" is a famous book written by Halid Ziya Usakligil. The book has many adaptation for cinema and tv. The most influencial adaptation was made as a tv series in 2008 and this movie (Forbidden love 2023) will be mainly compared with this series. When we consider the huge influence of Forbidden love 2008, it is almost impossible to criticize the movie without comparing it with the series. It is fair to say that Forbidden love 2008 is a beter adaptation of the book. Especially, the performance of the actors were worse. Even if we ignore the 2008 tv series, I dont think that none of actors performed a satisfactory performance except Farah Zeynep Abdullah. However, although she made a satisfactory performance unlike her collegues, she still could not reach the level of beren saat(Bihter in 2008 adaptation). As a resul, it is difficult to argue that the movie fulfills the expectations and satisfy its audience.

During 2 hours, from the first scene to the last (which was a dreadful ending!), i thought i was watching a parody movie like "Scary Movie" or something. Even though the cast was consisted of adequately successful actors and actresses, every single acting in the movie was outstandingly bad. The directing, scenerio, production design, the scores (i mean the whole parts that compose a movie) were also awful. Maybe the costumes might not have been so bad but nobody could understand which era they reflect.

The original book "Forbidden Love" was well produced in two separate TV series -early 2000s and in 1970s- which i highly recommend to be watched instead of this ironic(!) nonsense.

I was not expecting a good job but not to this extent. Being someone knowing the original story, I can see that there is no story line, no character development, no nothing at all. The only thing I like is the costumes. They did a good job reflecting 1920s. However, the rest is just nonsense. For someone who does not know the original story, it is impossible to understand what is going on as the scenes jump from one to another without any logical sequence. Unfortunately, I felt like I was being tortured for 2 hours. And I was not the only one. Everybody watching it with me got bored and lost interest after the 20th minute. Sad to see a great story being so unprofessionally screenplayed.

Unsuccessful writer Merve Göntem did not surprise again...

The movie is well below expectations, full of disappointments.

Player choices are terrible.

Every scene is cringe.

The only thing I like about the movie is the touches of the art director...

About this movie, Beren Saat and F. Zeynep have often come across Zeynep's acting in the role of 'Bihter' being compared, but this is complete nonsense. Farah cannot be successful in any role but in this role, she proved that especially with this movie.

Boran Kuzum's and Farah's bad acting made our eyes bleed...

I think Amazon Prime should invest more in movies and end its agreement with Farah urgently, otherwise we will watch a lot of bad movies like this.

The movie has a big disadvantage to start with because of the very loved series adaptation from 2008. I think most people would still embrace a new adaptation for this famous book if this movie didn't turn out to be this hideous. The good things are costumes and decor and everything else is sort of a mess. The self narration is very unnecessary and is a concentration killer. Cast is not horrible but also not great but acting is very mediocre but I also think that the actors are not to blame for this. The script is weird, a lot happens so fast and there is no correlation between events and no emotion passes from the screen because of that. Bihter is not Bihter by the way she an overly playfull woman where originally she should be this cold distant woman. I think this could have been great if this was worked as a period drama even with this cast. I think manking this movie was waste of money and watching it was a waste of energy.