Wonderful movie with a very talented cast. Zuhal thrives in her role. Zuhal tries to find out the source of a disturbing voice coming from a distant place, she discovers other's voices and voicelessness cut by gender roles.
Too noisy males -either a child or an adult-, too quiet females -either a child or an adult-, a woman violating the rule of voicelessness but she is crazy and not heard again, quiet mothers with noisy kids, spill over voices coming from people in isolation (homes, beds, cupboards) are the elements in the movie.
The noise coming from a cat stuck somewhere in the apartment leads us to discover the rules of being heard.
Plot summary
Zuhal, a successful lawyer living alone in the center of Istanbul, begins to hear the sound of a cat in her house one day. She sets out on a quest in her apartment to find this cat, which no one has heard of but herself.
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Hearing the voices
Ordinary problems in Turkey
The movie had both good and bad aspects, but I congratulate the writer (who is also the director) for creating a regressive atmosphere.
As I mentioned before, the film was quite successful in creating an atmosphere that seemed to have captured the standards of psychological-thriller, until a very simple solution was reached in the end, preventing a strong finale.
The acting was good, and Nihal Yalcin was quite good, but her performance did not deserve excessive praise. It was good enough to carry the atmosphere though.
The script wasn't bad, but the only thing missing was delving into the details of the main character's job. I wish they could have gone into a little more detail. Apart from that, the apartment building was a decent summary of Turkey. Although the scene of the fight when the cat was found was a little bland, most of the other scenes described Turkey quite well, which I think were successful parts. It was a bit disappointing that the character of the crazy person in the neighborhood was shown to have an incident, but it never actually happened. They could have written a regressive scene for that character.
Two things bothered me. One was what I mentioned before. Maybe there could have been a scene that could have elevated the movie more, but they wrote a bad fight scene at the most critical moment, which made me sad. The other was the last scene. Yes, they found the cat, but using a hammer to break into the house and easily taking the cat out was taking an easy way out and was a disservice to the atmosphere, in my opinion.
In short, it was not a bad movie, but some choices prevented it from being better.