Although it can be argued that its local touches can be appreciated more fully by Turkish audiences, "3 Monkeys" is a film that can definitely appeal to all film-lovers all over the world. It is a human drama, centered around the family of a fall-guy for a small-time politician. It is also a story of betrayal, longings and revenge. No shot is "left there" just for the effect. Even while you are watching someone walk under a train crossing, you find yourself thinking about what she might be feeling, thinking, not because you force yourself to, but because the film successfully makes you. Visuals are great, as always is with Ceylan, but this time they are superior, and the film, with both its screenplay and visuals has a black-and-white feeling, although it is not a black-and-white picture. At the end, you find yourself wondering who the "three wise monkeys" really are. Is it the family of 3, whose members have different agendas and do not want to see or hear or tell, or is it us, for knowing, but not wanting to know about all this human drama and social corruption? I hope "3 Monkeys" can gain international distribution besides film festivals and be given a chance to be appreciated by everyone.

While driving late night on a lonely road, the wealthy politician Servet (Ercan Kesal) hits a person and flees from the crime scene. The hit-and- run driver calls his employee Eyüp (Yavuz Bingöl), who lives in a simple house with his wife Hacer (Hatice Aslan) and their teenager son Ismail (Ahmet Rifat Sungar), and offers to continue to monthly pay his salary and a large amount in the end of the sentence to Eyüp to take the blame for the accident.

Eyüp accepts the offer and goes to prison along less than a year. Meanwhile, Ismail, who is a reckless student, wants to use part of the money that Servet owes to his father to buy a car to work as a school driver. When the beautiful Hacer visits Servet to receive the money, he makes a pass at Hacer. One day, Ismail returns home before traveling to visit his father and he sees Servet leaving his house and he presses his mother. When Eyüp is released, Ismail drives his father home and he learns that Hacer had taken part of the money to buy the car. When Servet does not discount the amount from the payoff, Eyüp suspects that Hacer is an unfaithful wife in the beginning of a family tragedy.

"Üç Maymun" is a film based on the maxim of the Three Wise Monkeys - see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil – for an unethical Turkish family. The father, Eyüp, accepts money to assume the murder of a pedestrian hit by his employer. His wife is easily seduced by the employer of her husband. Their son finds the truth about his mother and presses her to have his car. In the end, Eyüp finds a man needier than him to assume the guilty of his son's crime, using the same expediency of his former boss and life goes on with this Turkish family. Scary! My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): "3 Macacos" ("3 Monkeys")

What makes an art-house film? Well, sometimes you watch a mainstream movie and it's nicely paced, smartly scripted, easy on the eye, but altogether, it's just too slick to get far beneath the skin. But sometimes, a director has a real vision of his movie, a sense of how to make his scenes count beyond the normal cinematic vocabulary; and it's these films that tend to linger longest in the mind. And Nuri Bilge Ceylan's film 'Three Monkeys' might seem to be one of the latter kind: certainly, he has clearly thought very hard about how to compose every shot in this movie. Unfortunately, his choices are, when taken as a whole, rather perverse: when almost every scene is shot from a static camera, either too close or too distant for us to see what we might be used to seeing in movies (faces, for example), the impact of an individual choice of shot is lessened; but the sense of disengagement from the audience heightened. The minimal dialogue, and all-round feeling of ennui, didn't help either: there's a plot here, and even some moments of supposedly high tension, but it's all drowned in a mood of intense but lethargic miserablism. By the end, I had lost both interest in and the details of the story. And I'm a miserablist myself, as a rule. If you like blockbusters, you'll certainly get no change from this movie.