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Üç maymun (Three Monkeys): a re ...
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"My postman stuck the Turkish movie Three Monkeys into my mailbox just as I was leaving for the unemployment office. While down there looking for work, I asked some of the others in my line why a country on the other side of the world would be named after a big ugly edible bird like that? Most of them told me that the bird was in fact named after the country, not the other way around, because Turkey is where the bird came from. Benjamin Franklin wanted to designate the turkey as our national bird, imagining, I suppose, the turkey to be an indigenous fowl. The first edition of his Poor Richard's Almanac featured an eight-page spread on meleagris gallopavo and its habits, habits which he took to be worthy of emulation by an entire nation and which he strove to imitate, in certain particulars, with several of his more intimate associations while abroad in Paris acting as a representative of our fledgling government, to the vast amusement of the French. Please don't write me about this, ... "
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"I find movies about secrets to be terribly interesting. Affairs, murders, accidents, humiliations and the lengths people will go to hide them generally make for pretty compelling stuff. "Three Monkeys," the Turkish entry for the best foreign language film Oscar, is one such movie, and (I think) probably a pretty strong contender. I'm assuming the title has to do with the proverb "see no evil, hear no evil, do no evil," since the family at the center of this movie has plenty of issues that they deal with by not talking about them. Things start off when a Servet, a campaigning politician, is involved in a hit-and-run accident. Not wanting to tarnish his reputation right before the election, Servet has his driver, Eyüp, take the fall for him in exchange for a sum of money to be given to his family. In the meantime, Eyüp's wife, Hacer, has an affair with Servet, only to have it abruptly cut off when her ne'er-do-well son discovers them. Oh, and the family is also haunted by t ... "
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"I'm told that Üç maymun (Three Monkeys) is Turkey's official submission for consideration of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. I really have no idea how many films with this level of production are made in Turkey each year. And now that I think about it, I can't think of a single movie I have ever seen that has come out of Turkey. The only movie I can think of that I've seen that is even set substantially in Turkey is Midnight Express, and I believe that was an American produced film that wasn't especially fair in portraying the full Turkish culture for Americans. However there's actually not too much about Three Monkeys that sets it in any particular location. At least there was nothing culturally unusual or alien to me. I'm not saying that there SHOULD be, just an observation from someone who doesn't know too much about Turkey and hasn't seen too much of their artistic exports. What we have here is a film that is well executed in many ways, nice p ... "
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"Three Monkeys (Uc Maymun) (2008)Three Monkeys (2008) is Turkey’s submission for an Oscar in the Foreign-Language Film category. Obviously, the Turks think it is excellent. The film is a professional work with top-notch cinematography, a sparsely sophisticated sound track, and impeccable acting. But once the film makers decided to create a heavy drama about the stresses, strains, and disintegration of a working-class Istanbul family, they had three major challenges to meet to keep us riveted, and they met the challenges with mixed results.
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"Nuri Bilge Ceylan has been a name on the international film circuit since 2002 with Distant - a "well-paced" character study - and has continued his success with Climates (2006) and now Three Monkeys (2008). Ceylan is putting Turkish film on the map through unorthodox shots and unconventional story telling techniques. Three Monkeys succeeds on many levels while being quietly devastating. Aesthetically we are presented with images of civilization on the brink. The dark nature of the film’s content and meaning is echoed beautifully in the cinematography. The clouds thicken as the plot does. As Eyüp (Yavuz Bingol) throws a tantrum so does Zeus. The breadth of darkness that cinematographer Gokhan Tiryaki is able to achieve adds a noirish richness to the film. The lingering shots place emphasis on the inner-workings of the characters.& "
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"So often, when a film is described as 'deliberately paced,' it's can be read as being 'slow.' 'In the Bedroom' initially comes to mind off the top of my head. And while the camera may stay statioary to soak in the scenery, the electrical undercurrent of 'Three Monkeys' (Uc Maymun in Turkish) is anything but lethargic. Cinematographer Nuri Bilge Ceylan uses natural and man-made elements as supporting actors. A rolling storm cloud here, a thundering train there, all signify struggles the main characters face as they attempt to lie and cheat their way out of the dark corners in which they've found themselves. A middle-aged politician (Ercan Kesal) drives down a desolate road, eyes heavy with sleep, when he is jolted awake by his car slamming into and killing a pedestrian. In a panic, he bolts the scene and later persuades his longtime driver, Eyup (played by Yavuz Bingol), to take the fall and and serve the jail time in exchange for large chunks of change for him, Hacer his wife ( pl ... "
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"There’s a movie that, unless you live on the bleeding edge of the foreign film world, you probably haven’t heard about. It’s called Three Monkeys. Here’s the description of the movie as it appears on its Spout movie detail page: A family dislocated when small failings blow up into extravagant lies battles against the odds to stay together by covering up the truth… In order to avoid hardship and responsibilities that would otherwise be impossible to endure, the family chooses to ignore the truth, not to see, hear or talk about it. But does playing “Three Monkeys” invalidate the truth of its existence? Despite it’s low profile in the mass-audience world it has quite a following among some of the heavy users on Spout. While opinions have varied, the movie has gotten some strong feedback from those who have seen it: Indieabby88: “Probably the best thing “Three Monkeys” has going for it is its subtlety. The film’s style is very subdued, and we only see characters behaving in extreme way ... "
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"Three Monkeys could be about lots of things. Loyalty. Deception. Ennui. The allure and abuse of power. What it's really about is convincing audiences that they have it far easier than the characters in this film. For nearly two hours, director/co-writer Nuri Bilge Ceylan attempts to depress the hell out of viewers, and succeeds marvelously. After beginning with the intriguing concept of hiring innocent acquaintances to endure the guilty party's jail sentence in exchange for "a lump sum" of money, Ceylan tosses his audience into emotional purgatory without much to go on. A Turkish family of three, bound by an unspoken tragedy, furthers their unhappy lives through individual actions involving a politician, but other than getting audiences to feel really really bad for the family's situation, little else is going on here. In a film with less audible dialogue than a silent movie, enduring is a difficult assignment. But all isn't completely lost. To affect such emotions, stron ... "
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