Barda

Victims do not play well. First 20 minutes have almost no contribution to the movie. Violence is shown in its raw form. Evil side has better dialogues that are highly realistic. You can laugh even there is violence in scene, reactions are so natural. Character balance is not perfect, like Selim's story. But Nejat plays very well (actually he lives the role.) I could not empathize with the victims. One of my personal favorites but it may be better if they could use first 20-30 minutes better.

Hard to abide the realism of this striking movie...

Not the blood and the excess violence but the pure reality of - how anybody do something like that to other- caused some of the audience leave the movie in the first half.

We have seen these kinds of headlines everyday in the third pages of newspapers (maybe not as barbaric as this) and get used to these kinds of savagery news. But to see this realism in a well-played and directed movie shocked the most movie goers.

These kinds of things is happening all around the world and makes the victims' whole life non-tolerable.

Thanks to Serdar Akar for his plain directing and also would like congratulate Serdar Orcin for his great play as a psychopath. One of my best in Turkish movies.

Turkish cinema is constantly maturing. This is one of the best explorations of the social divide and culture of envy present in modern Turkey. Inevitable comparisons are made to works of Haneke, particularly to Funny Games. The film does not have the virtuosity of Haneke, but it also does not have Haneke's patronising, barely disguised sermons against bourgeoisie. The middle class young people are not hedonistic, divorced from reality buffheads. They exist within a different reality from the nether class hoons that invade their world. Some left-leaning Turkish viewers that would like to see any city-dwelling Turk from a non-working class background as vermin will not be pleased. However, social strata in Turkey is not black and white anymore - if it ever were...

It won't be a spoiler to state that the violent scenes are difficult to watch and some might find those out of place in a film that is decidedly anti-violence. To me, the uber-realism of those scenes carried the subtext of the film: Do not kid yourself. Violence is ugly, brutal and it never leads to anything positive. There is no justification for it.

Thanks to the viewer that had recognized the directors at the end of the film. I would have missed that message if it weren't for him/her. Not that it would have made any difference to my assessment.

This is one of the VERY few movies i couldn't stand till the end. Is it because the movie is bad? No, Not at all. May be the film was way too good that I Really felt the sorrow of the victims. What hit me for the first place was, the victims were just like people like me or my friends or my family. NORMAL, usual people. Not heroic or "angel-good" movie characters.

With a pure emphatic approach I felt that I would do exactly the same as the victims... Disturbing. A dark catastrophe surrounds you in the dark saloon of the movie. I couldn't stand it till the end. Not to spoil the joy of watching such a good handled movie I will not give any details of the violence but I can not pass prising the cast. The actors are amazing and well fit for their rolls.

If you decide to watch the movie i just wish you GOOD LUCK.

When the crime happened in a descent neighborhood of the capital city of Turkey, i was a university student in Ankara. We were all shocked, i remember the exact place of the crime. Years later, the movie came out. The true story is even worse than portrayed on the film. Brief, it is one of the best movie of turkish cinema history. I highly advise you to watch it, but be prepared for anxiety, violence and stress, like in Gaspar Nohe's Irreversable. The actors are well known turkish artists, mostly coming from drama theater and drama education.

The 2nd movie is not as good as the 1st one. It's a bad remake, very violent but rather empty and amateurish compared to this one. But still watchable.