Kurtulus: Son Durak

Good cause, very talented actresses/actors but very bad movie. Is it fictional story or not? Because there's no logic in at all.

If you have spare time to watch anything, let it play on the background.

Despite reading the negative reviews first, I actually liked this film. It's not a story about the characters so much, but about the absurdity and unfairness of accepted cultural norms regarding women in Turkish society. Could it have been put together better? Yes, indeed. I felt at times that the director must have cut some of the important connecting scenes and things didn't add up as well as they could have. Regardless, the film serves a window into Turkish life and how women are victimized daily and how that affects the way women act, just to protect themselves or their loved ones. If I hadn't grown up in Turkey, or if I felt that it shed too much light into truths I wanted to keep under covers, I may have disliked the movie. Instead, I liked the idea of women banding together and standing up to their oppressors to change their situations, and also enjoyed the movies dark quirkiness and colourful shots.

The movie contains a set of situations that would be expected in a Coen brothers movie with a heavy dose of political awareness about the situations women face daily in Turkey. Unfortunately the political features of the piece outweighs the scenario of the movie too much and steers it into a set of unrealistic and unconnected different events and ruin the continuity of the movie for me.

As a leftist/feminist I can't really recommend the movie wholeheartedly as even I couldn't like it that much even though the movie was really catered to a demographic including me.