COGUNLUK - MAJORITY
Official Selection
Turkey 2010, 103, 35mm, colour
directed by Seren Yüce
screenplay Seren Yüce cinematography Barış Özbiçer editing Mary Stephen sound Mustafa Bölükbaşı art direction Meral Efe cast Bartu Küçükçağlayan (Mertkan), Settar Tanrıöğen (Kemal), Nihal Koldaş (mother), Esme Madra (Gül), Erkan Can (taxi driver)
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synopsis
Mertkan leads a simple life in Istanbul until he meets Gül, a Kurdish girl from Eastern Turkey who has run away from her family. But their relationship is obstructed by Mertkans father Kemal, and the chauvinist culture in which Mertkan is imbued.
Humanitys complicated structure, which is disguised under the veil of technology, is always affected by the power of masculinity. Majority is a critique of myself and Turkish society, of which I am a member. My aim is to look at us through a family, which is the core of society. (Seren Yüce) Will it be possible one day for a character of a Turkish movie to look back at his youth and get to understand his tyrannical father as did the liberated character of Padre padrone? Nowadays, we hear a great deal about the oppression suffered by women in many traditional societies, but Seren Yüce shows us an oppressed young man. The son is subdued to his father. Fear of his father proves more powerful for him than his love for an alien girl. Is this passive character aware of this oppression? This film makes us face a paradox: In a patriarchal society a woman may find it easier to emancipate herself than a man. (Tadeusz Sobolewski)
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