Looks like it has been more than ten days since I last posted here. To return here makes me feel as if I have accomplished something, since I didn't abandon this blog like the other two.

There is nothing new in my life which makes me feel nice and warm. I guess change is not always good, especially when you are content with what you have.

New year is here but I find myself not getting excited over it, at all. This seems to be the new thing with me. Usually I'm the sort who jumps up and down with anticipation over even the smallest thing. But I know it will pass since thanks to internet I know that people go through this sort of mood from time to time.

Meanwhile I have seen a new Turkish film that was very good. And this is suprising because Turkish film industry seems to be producing more and more films without taking quality into consideration. Everyone is saying that the industry has come back to life but I agree with a newspaper article I have read today. It resembles this new boost with the Turkish pop boost in the beginning of the nineties. Everybody who can shout made an album those days and in the end nobody gained anything.
So it is suprising to see a horror film tackle an issue which really puts fear into a Turk who has been in the northwestern region of Turkey on 17 August 1999. That's when we had a really nasty earthquake resulting in many deaths and people who suffer from post traumatic stress syndrome. It was really a bad one since we had to get out of the house even though we were many kilometers away from the center of it.

So this brings us to

Small Apocalypse: Directed by Taylan Brothers (Durul and Yağmur Taylan) whose previous film was the decent Okul, strangely enough recommended to me by a cinema lover who is not Turkish.
This time we see a middle class Turkish family (mom dad, small girl and a baby boy) preparing to go on a summer holiday. In addition we have mom's elder sister's two children, a teen boy and girl. Their destination is a summer house they booked on net, which is at a small villiage in south west coast. The night before their trip, they experience a small earthquake (we get them from time to time in Istanbul) and quickly go on the road. The house is decent enough but comes with a view of a cemetery and then inevitably strange things start to happen...

Small apocalyse, we learn in the beginning of the film is what a person feels just before dying.
The film certainly was very effective, especially towards the end. Even though the majority of the viewers will guess what is coming, I don't think anyone else was prepared for the sheer effectiveness of the last scenes. Being a fatalist I was not that scared of the earthquake but even I felt the blood growing cold in my veins.

The cast mostly consists of actors Turks are familiar from a couple of TV shows since they share the same production company. This is a good thing because now they speak with a different accent and are in completely different characters so we can see how truly wonderful they are.
The lead actor who plays mom Bilge is Başak Köklükaya, dad is Cansel Elçin (the reason
my sister came to watch it with me, she follows the TV drama this guy is in) but my favorite was İlker Aksum who is the watchman for the summer house the couple rented. He really nailed the accent of the region and his performance was so nuanced without being overboard.

I really tried to post some pictures but sadly none are available on net here is the web site
if you click on the gallery you get a picture of the brothers and one photo shot during filming.
http://www.kucukkiyamet.com/

So this concludes today's post, and as usual I have had fun!