Turkey's auteurist filmmaker Sinan Cetin, portrays an aspiring film director who struggles to get a filming approval from the national government for a socialist movie. The film Kagit, is not about what happens if this movie is shot. Instead it's all about how easy to disregard this movie if it has different political views; even before seeing it, more even before reading the first page of its script.
Following the formulaic structure laying out a simple screen-story, Kagit has a very basic idea, a pure theme and a pretty straightforward message. The title "Kagit" stands for "paper" in Turkish. A signed sealed and delivered government paper is able to ruin anybody's life. We witness how can and why can this be happening: Ruining somebody's life, if a movie is not approved for filming. When this theme of the film is stated in the opening segment, even before the story is set up, Sinan Cetin forces the viewer to get curios about the visual results of a certain problem. Like the painter in Andrei Rublev(1966-Andrei Tarkovsky) so colourful but so Godless, like the beastly composer in Amadeus(1984-Milos Forman) so truthful but so lonely ; the young aspiring filmmaker in Kagit is so talented and so hopeless. He finds great deals of obstacles on his path of making his first movie. Fighting these obstacles, Kling Klang King of the Rim Ram Room may feel ashamed of himself, but the King of self-belief will never feel so.
A realistic social drama, very painful and very true, reflects one overlooked truth in a real-life example. When art goes beyond expectations, everything else falls behind it: Money, love, family, crime, suicide. Everything else. But does Art really worth losing them all? Watch and decide.
