yoyoyoghurt
This is my first time to write a review on IMDb, just for this movie,Issiz Adam, which I rated 10, because I found some pieces of me in it, and I'm sure some of you feel the same way too. Issiz Adam, is a Turkish word means isolated man, and of course our leading actor. For what I see this movie is a story of love and loneliness, given the fact that the part of love story is believed to be normal or stupid or whatever, I will only talk about the part of loneliness, because it's exactly what my loneliness looks like if it needs to be shown. No doubt many movies reflect humanity, desire, hatred, greed and so on, they are all over the Hollywood films and others, no big deal. But this loneliness is more like a personal and precious thing, a secret that few people share. In the movie there's a quote Ada says to Alper "there's no one.there never will be. You'll just borrow other people's kids, lives and bodies."true. We all are small islands dying to go shore, but sadly the only thing we can do is floating on the sea, till the day a big wave comes and swallows all of us.
sari_fil
A tasteless film with the most conventional plot, poor acting, poor camera and poor directing. You will quite vainly look for any deeper meanings or a message. For there is none. It might make some people cry but so do some low quality soap operas. It is quite obvious that the director comes from this background. There is nothing unexpected and the sex scene is one of the least erotic ones after Bodyguard. Fortunately, not the most typical Turkish feature film of our day but unfortunately the one that makes more money and attracts more audience than those worth your money. It would be a relief to know that the director does not have any higher aspirations than making a film for a particular audience that enjoys non-stimulating entertainment and cheap love stories if he had not been honestly puzzled why he was not selected for any, yes, ANY, film festival competition with this one.
Erdem Aksoy
i see some people complaining about how cagan irmak, the director is playing with the feelings of people... alright, he is really good at finding the desires, passions and touchy moments, i agree with that but i think that's what makes this movie great... the movie has a story that gives most of the people the feeling of "having lived that moment", i believe it is based on mr. irmak's personal experiences... characters in the movie are well developed and acted good, especially the leading actor is just amazing... the director used the inner speeches (monologues/dialogues) very well... a very well known usage of the same thing is in the so called Turkish classical "selvi boylum al yazmalim" which exaggerated all this inner speech thing and made the movie unrealistic at some points, mr. irmak used it only when it is most needed so it is just giving the message, not disturbing at all... i believe those who didn't like the movie has some gaps in their lives, either never felt in love or never needed to be alone and ran away from all the ties... or they are the ones who are just finding reasons to criticize everything in order to show that they are more sophisticated... or they are so materialistic that they don't even see a reason for appreciating this movie... anyway, i think the movie deserves to be seen, mr. irmak did a really good job... oh, i have a word for those who like the movie just because of the soundtrack: those songs were always there, you are the one listening to the low-quality Turkish pop that's why you never realized how good we were in music, just open your eyes and ears, it may change your life ;)
sinekritik
It is hard to come across modern day love stories in Turkish cinema and I guess this made a great contribution to the popularity and box-office of the movie. However if you are a believer of old-fashioned love, you might feel a little bit discomforted with the movie, at least I did. The business of falling in love on Monday, making love on Tuesday, breaking up on Wednesday and forget about everything on Thursday has no buy in from me. I guess this kept me a little bit far to the story during the movie. Apart from that, the depiction of modern day city life is quiet successful . Isolation, hunger for love, dilemma of love and freedom are featured in a striking manner. The ending which is praised as the most powerful part of the movie makes no sense for me neither logically nor emotionally.Acting is quiet weak, especially in the beginning of the movie but the charm of the actors saves the day. The mother is an exception to this observation, her voice and acting is very powerful and she contributes a lot to her scenes.Movie soundtrack is superb in the sense that the songs and story are in perfect harmony. I believe the story would never have such an effect on the audience in the absence of the songs.All in all, this movie deserves nothing more than 6 stars. We now expect better movies as this movie proved that Turkish audience is ready to pay for modern day love stories.
AD
