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Hoooo boy that was exhausting, good though. Was torn between a 6 or a 7 but settled on a 6 in the end, mostly because I don't see myself ever rewatching it. And while that has a lot to do with the slowburn nature which you really have to be in the mood for, there's definitely a fair amount of slowburn movies that I have watched/want to watch multiple times

Honestly I was waiting for most of the movie for the plot to be building to something tangible, which I definitely expected from the plot summary of them being trapped in the hotel (which was a tad misleading (: ). But by the end it became clear that this was solely a character piece (and an excellent one). Felt like a novel more than anything. Some of the dialogue scenes went on for so long, but they were almost all riveting and never really felt like they were dragging. There were a ton but the arguments between Aydin/Necla and Aydin/Nihal (when he's about to "leave" for Istanbul) were definitely the standouts for me. The movie really pared away everything you assumed about Aydin at the beginning and it was pretty fascinating to see, especially in those scenes. But even then, I appreciated that it was nuanced enough to not outright paint him as bad (I think that goes for any character in the movie, even Ismail) but as someone who is good at their core (or trying to be) but is incapable of externalizing it through his actions

I dunno, a lot to unpack from this movie and I really should wait a bit to rate these because I'm already thinking it might be more of a 7 (:

I will say if you don't like the first 30-60 minutes then you probably won't enjoy the movie as a whole. It does pick up from there as far as emotion/confrontation goes but the heavy focus on dialogue never really stops

The money scene definitely felt Tarantino-esque to me, that was pretty tense. I was getting p stressed when Hamdi left Nihal alone with Ismail. WHY. I was actually fearing something even worse was gonna happen

itsHALLE @ 22/1/2018 23:43

Everything was super serious, no comedic relief

Hidayet slippin and slidin in the train station tho!!