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In its director's words "Direk Aşk" is an experimental, satirical romantic comedy. It tells the story of a desperately lonely woman who has just broken up with her lover. The day she breaks up with her lover, she happens to hold on to a traffic pole. As she is crying she presses the pedestrian push button and then suddenly the pole seems to talk to her :" Please don't cry!" She seems to be the only hearer of the flattery words the pole enunciates. As much as it sounds so unexpected, so incredible the woman can't just get herself away from the pole. İrem Altuğ, who plays the emotionally lost, confused, lonely, broken, insecure woman desperate for some love is also the writer of this story. She says she just wanted to show that men fall in love with their eyes, women with their ears As much as the movie beautifully portrays the possibility of how one lonely person could easily fall in love and out of it, I must admit that I felt uncomfortable by the undertow of feminism in this short film. Can all men be as callous as poles? It may take just a few nice words to make a desperate, broken-hearted woman to fall for the same callous, indifferent, cheating man but wouldn't that be an unfair generalization? As much as I like the fact that the movie makes fun of itself by pointing out to the frail, inscrutable human nature, I would expect more of a sophisticated story instead of making such sweeping generalizations about either gender. Still, with its original story, superb acting and lovely soundtrack, Love is Blind deserves to be watched.
In its director's words "Direk Aşk" is an experimental, satirical romantic comedy. It tells the story of a desperately lonely woman who has just broken up with her lover. The day she breaks up with her lover, she happens to hold on to a traffic pole. As she is crying she presses the pedestrian push button and then suddenly the pole seems to talk to her :" Please don't cry!" She seems to be the only hearer of the flattery words the pole enunciates. As much as it sounds so unexpected, so incredible the woman can't just get herself away from the pole. İrem Altuğ, who plays the emotionally lost, confused, lonely, broken, insecure woman desperate for some love is also the writer of this story. She says she just wanted to show that men fall in love with their eyes, women with their ears As much as the movie beautifully portrays the possibility of how one lonely person could easily fall in love and out of it, I must admit that I felt uncomfortable by the undertow of feminism in this short film. Can all men be as callous as poles? It may take just a few nice words to make a desperate, broken-hearted woman to fall for the same callous, indifferent, cheating man but wouldn't that be an unfair generalization? As much as I like the fact that the movie makes fun of itself by pointing out to the frail, inscrutable human nature, I would expect more of a sophisticated story instead of making such sweeping generalizations about either gender. Still, with its original story, superb acting and lovely soundtrack, Love is Blind deserves to be watched.
