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Style and no content but some genuinely terrifying characters

posted 9 years ago by omendata
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The main review is spot on - Mehmet is truly terrifying and rather good in the role from an acting standpoint - i found him mesmerising in his role.

Quite a few stylish elements and some rather good photography elements but unfortunately the story lost me completely , it just meandered into gore for the sake of gore and petered out at the end which is sad as it was rather different , loved the music; reminded me of Claudio Simonetti Demons and a few other Italo-horror classics - the style is also reminiscent of some of Dario Argento stuff like Suspiria.

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[–] jmbwithcats 8 years ago

The content is expressed in the words of the priest and the ending is crucial to understanding how meaningful those words are.

We take Hell with us, It's reminiscent of one of my favorite Zen Koans from The Gateless Gate concerning Heaven and Paradise. #57 I believe, you can look it up easily.

But in the end of the movie, we realize Arda is basically caught in a loop, to go through this cycle over and over again.

Sort of like the movie Triangle.

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[–] omendata 8 years ago

Yes i got that or the fact that we create our own hell and this could describe the world itself - its a subjective thing - and the loop thing has been done a whole lot better as you say - Triangle was a much better film with the loop and the devil at the end; apart from having my favourite female in it lol

The Turkish movie just didnt have what it took to go the full mile.
Weak and confusing ending.

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[–] Don_Cheech 8 years ago

I really have to disagree here. I thought the ending was nuts. Didn't expect the loop aspect. It brings it to a whole other level.