papatyatabak-52438
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This is a film that has impacted me immensely since I was a kid. I was a little kid when I saw this movie on a Turkish tv channel. The impact that it has left on me has made search for this film in my adult life. Gülüsan is a film that fundemantally critiques the patriarchal society in Turkey. Halil Ergün's character has three wives but still he can't have children. Everybody blames the women since according to traditional view only 'women' can be barren. So he keeps on taking one wife after the other. Gülüsan is a rather hard film to watch. But it shows the true nature of patriarchy in Turkish society like I have never seen before. Definitely a must watch if you want to learn about the period and overall nature of patriarchal life in rural Turkiye.
Although the film has some promising moments overall it fails to be believable at some levels. There are some inconsistencies within the characters. The mother of 'Duman' is a character that shouldn't have been there at all. At most I liked the dream sequences that female characters had at one point. If the films aims to be a character study, it fails miserably on this but it has some solid sociological observations regarding especially city vs rural life effects on people. 'Evcilik' succeeds in keeping the attention of the audience up until the last moment. Unfortunately it lacks a definite climax.