great pride in hosting such histori-
cally significant attractions, but
Sinan has little but contempt for
the place of his birth, seeing the
locals as small-minded bumpkins.
He’s forced however to suck up to
the town’s bigwigs, hoping one of
them will finance the publishing of
his novel, but is largely met with
hostility due to his inability to talk
to anyone without rubbing them
up the wrong way with his air of
intellectual supremacy.
Much of the film focusses on
Sinan’s increasingly estranged
relationship with his father, Idris
(Murat Cemcir), a primary school
teacher whose gambling addic-
tion has led to him making several
enemies in town, not to mention
plunging the family home into
darkness when he can’t pay the
electricity bill. This gives Sinan a
chance to affect a moral superior-
ity over his wayward father, but we
get the sense that the young man
is consumed with a jealousy of his
father’s ability to be happy with his
lot. In spite of his failings, Idris has
a secure job and a loving wife, two
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