Araf begins with a shot of a giant pot on a train of what looks like sand tip over at a sluggish pace. At one point it becomes clear that it only seemed sand on the surface. In fact it is burning hot, orange glowing, molten metal that pours out of the pot.
This pre title shot is a great idea for a beginning. One that is promising. It's like it tells you something about what you are about to see. But what I saw in the movie was only so interesting. The pot metaphor deserved a better movie.
You get a peek into the lives of these characters but we don't see anything that is particularly surprising. For instance who doesn't know that a lot of people are longing for things out of their reach? Or that there is domestic violence? Or that there are unhappy marriages? What's the point of showing all these things?
The miscarriage is a false note to me. It doesn't fit with the rest of the film because of the way the scene is filmed namely too shocking and uncomfortable. And the marriage in jail seems too much of a "fairytale" ending to me. I think it should have ended less brightly.
But although it is far from a complete success as far as the script is concerned and I question the point of showing a lot of what the film shows, I do feel that it's a movie which has its heart in the right place and which a lot of the time does what it sets out to do rather well.
This pre title shot is a great idea for a beginning. One that is promising. It's like it tells you something about what you are about to see. But what I saw in the movie was only so interesting. The pot metaphor deserved a better movie.
You get a peek into the lives of these characters but we don't see anything that is particularly surprising. For instance who doesn't know that a lot of people are longing for things out of their reach? Or that there is domestic violence? Or that there are unhappy marriages? What's the point of showing all these things?
The miscarriage is a false note to me. It doesn't fit with the rest of the film because of the way the scene is filmed namely too shocking and uncomfortable. And the marriage in jail seems too much of a "fairytale" ending to me. I think it should have ended less brightly.
But although it is far from a complete success as far as the script is concerned and I question the point of showing a lot of what the film shows, I do feel that it's a movie which has its heart in the right place and which a lot of the time does what it sets out to do rather well.
