A Dark Coming of Age Story in a Single Plan: Adolescence (2025)

Type: Mini Series

Premiering on Netflix in early 2025, Adolescence is a four-part British mini-series that is not just a crime drama; it’s also a social critique exposing the dark side of growing up in the digital age. While exploring the story of a young boy confronted with crime, the show boldly delves into parenting, psychological trauma, and the new threats emerging in the era of the internet. Devamını Oku…

Traditions or Loved Ones?: A Regular Woman (2019)

Some of you may remember the incident or have seen it in the media. Aynur, a young woman shot by her brother in the street. Aynur’s story meets the audience in 2009 with the title “An Ordinary Woman”. The movie is a great work that tells Aynur’s story in a documentary style with real images in some places. Director Sherry Hormann shows the audience her journey of finding herself step by step with a grave death. Devamını Oku…

A Tale of the Unbearable Lightness of Suffering from the “Greek Weird Wave”: Oiktos / Pity / Zavallı (2018)

It is as if a question was asked and then a film was made to answer that question. And what is that question?

How can a man who feels happy only when he is unhappy be happy?

Released in 2018, the film Oiktos is the story of addiction to pain. I will briefly tell you about the film and try to write about what it made me feel and the emergence of oiktos.

In April 2023, I was looking at the new arrivals on Mubi and I saw it; OiktosDevamını Oku…