Do Not Disturb

Well let's be honest. Turkish cinema is not one of the brightest these days. We have Nuri Bilge Ceylan doing some arthouse movies once in a couple years taking away Cannes prizes and thats it. Thank God there is another man who tries to do something new with each of his projects. Cem Yilmaz. He seems like Fellini and Benigni's love child with some hardcore Turkish ancestry. In this movie he somehow did manage to show us the whole country with only a handful of actors and one stage. We all are already disturbed. Every one of us just wanna have o normal life. A bit of happiness. Love for sure. Why is it so hard to some to achieve such basic needs? Is it their fault? Is it because of everyone else? The pandemic? God? I dont know! Neither does Isac! He tries and hopes for the best. Just like you and me. Not gonna lie, a little bit more like me.

If you follow the interviews of CY, you will see a lot of references to his personal views on people / typologies in social media. The subject and the flow of the story is nice.

I just did not like the parts related to the academician character. I found them too didactive and a little bit cliche.

Another explicitly cliche story was reference to the violence against woman.

If CY stops this didactive attitude, his movies will be much much better. He says he doesn't care much what critics say, but I think he cares too much and this causes him to be not totally free with the story.

The dance scene in pharmacy is epic!

I am 50 years old and love this pitch black comedy drama. Colors, music, dialogs get me into an abyss. As the movie goes deeper on sequence, main character Isaac puts me into an unrest feeling, thrill. Almost having the same feelings, stress like Isaac. Very well staged, played. Isaac character could be the combination of well observed characters Cem encountered in his early life in Beyoglu, Taksim. This becomes my favorite movie among all his productions. Good is not always beautiful, i think this could be the motto of this movie. A mind opener, table top, extravagant painting this movie is. 1.

He constantly thinks, puts in effort, spends time, money and all his resources for this aim, walking around the outside line and tries to bring us to that side. Thank you and we are so lucky for having you Cem Baba.

Çaresizseniz çare sizsiniz!

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He constantly thinks, puts in effort, spends time, money and all his resources for this aim, walking around the outside line and tries to bring us to that side. Thank you and we are so lucky for having you Cem Baba.

Çaresizseniz çare sizsiniz!

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He constantly thinks, puts in effort, spends time, money and all his resources for this aim, walking around the outside line and tries to bring us to that side. Thank you and we are so lucky for having you Cem Baba.

Çaresizseniz çare sizsiniz!

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There is a lot of similarities between The Joker and Do Not Disturb. Colors, lightnings, angles ect. Ect. Both films have the subject of a "stage of insanity." Also, this film got a reference to the character "Joker" in a scene where Ayzek and the girl when they smoke in front of the hotel. So it is no secret. But if we say this is a bad Joker copycat it could be unfair.

The details about the "hotel business" is insanely correct. Ayzek getting the wrong name tag at the first scene, being a bad hotel's night manager makes him smoke so often, no one is coming for check-in ect. Everything you see about the hotel business is very correct.

Characters felt very real and I like the scenario.

Only problem about the film is, it really doesn't feed the expectations with that final and I was expecting something big at the end. My suggestion, if the final is going to be the worst part of the film, don't try to make one.

Also what was the part about Ayzek felt down to that car? If it was Davut's room, what did we see? I think it's not connected to somewhere that is a problem, because you gave so much clue but there is no puzzle.

In total it could be one of the best films ever made in Turkish cinema but it could be better and if someone going to do that, who could be better than Cem Yilmaz?

If there is more given, than more expected.