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In terms of cinematography I think this movie is not much better or worse than the other examples of profit motivated Turkish movies which were produced in abundance in the recent years. What makes it different than the others is its subject matter which divides Turkey to two halves. The problem here is that the producers who are originated from one of these camps cannot distance themselves from their ideology. Someone here says that art is secular etc. Anybody who knows Turkey would also know that secularist does not mean secular here. As Armenian-Turkish journalist Sevan Nisanyan puts it there are two religions in Turkey Islam and Kemalism. So being Kemalist does not mean being secular in art. Actually this is true more generally. Being an atheist does not make you secular automatically. If you say art under the dogma of religion is not art, how can you claim that art under the dogma of Kemalism, dogma of Socialism, dogma of Nationalism etc. is art? Is a Western movie showing how unhappy the women in Iran is more artistic than an Iranian movie showing how unhappy the women in the West? The bad thing about this movie is that it does not have even such an intention, it is just a commercial movie exploiting the headscarf controversy in turkey.