Wings of the Night (2009) User Reviews

A tragedy

[sdonmez3 · 8/10 · 19 March 2010]

I simply hate people's aggression to this film.The rating of this film is the result of our ostrich like attitude to our past and people's hate to certain person.This is unacceptable.I partly agree that this film may not be that realistic but it teaches us an important lesson.Our country has suffered a lot from the military coup in 1980.Our past is filled with things that bother us but we still continue to ignore it.Without any doubt,this is a good film and if anybody wishes to know the truth about our country,this is a good lead.Another thing that should be emphasized is the beautiful performance of the leading actor and actresses.

Is this how we are supposed to face up with our immediate past?

[elsinefilo · 22 May 2010]

All the glare of the publicity that has been generated for this movie because of some sex scene between Beren Saat and Murat Unalmis has been apparently not enough to make it a hit movie. The Turkish movie industry has been trying to treat the 82 coup d'etat over the past few years. Unfortunately, the so-called movie moguls either made a mess of the subject by treating it in a melodramatic ideological fashion (as in "Son Cellat-The Last Hangman) or they just used it as a minor subtext to accentuate a love story or to underscore a story of filial love (as in My Father and My Son).Tant pis, this one is no different than that. The movie starts with a flashback ; Gece, a kid of 5-6 year old(Beren Saat) witnesses the death of her parents during a police raid in the aftermath of 82 coup. After the flashback, we see Gece as a member of a left-wing gang. She gets chosen as a suicide-bomber. She is not an angst-ridden teenager but she seems to have learned to live with sorrows and she wants to take a revenge for her parents. Beren Saat puts in a convincing performance as the greenhorn suicide bomber but she looks too young to be someone thirty given the fact that the events set in a year of late 2000s. This is a major goof which is insulting even to general cinema-goers.

While Gece is on the wait for the attack day, she stays at a flat where the organization arranges for her.Gradually, she starts to have feelings for Yusuf (Murat Ünalmis),the son of the concierge. Though she knows that the relationship can have no future, she still can't keep herself away from him. While the movie questions the act of vengeance and implies the notion that "ideologies somehow,someday die but love prevails" it does not really question the ideology. By juxtaposing the 80's revolutionary militants who lost their lives for their ideology and today's revolutionary militants who try to grapple with the modern day capitalism, the movie does not really achieve its purpose.In the first half,it sounds like it's so partisan that it glorifies the actions of left-wing militants but in the second half it sounds like it's so simple and naive that in today's world left-wing gangs fight for no noble purpose.It's more like saying: "Give up on this stuff.Go home,make love!" As a cinema viewer, I am not sure where the movie stands and which half we should take credit for.Still,we should not be surprised by the fact the movie does not exactly focus on one thing because, the screen play writer of this movie Mahsun Kırmızıgül always does this. An example? Think about Günesi Gördüm (I saw the Sun). While we were thinking we would see a harrowing movie about lives broken asunder by the ethnic PKK terror we saw an unnecessary,stopgap transsexual subtext which could have been the subject of a different movie. We don't know how the director went along with all this but The Wings of The Night is just a damp squib,another resounding flop about one of our notorious coup d'etats.

need more efforts

[scorpio-191 · 8/10 · 24 May 2012]

this movie talks about hard time in turkey and how much they patriot . the introduction was one of the best the story it self and trailer is so stimulating , the movie sound theme helped a lot yet some how some where in the middle of the movie you can feel there is weakness I am sure that they could've done better the cause as I figured might be low budget or short time of filming or the lack of actors.. in general actors did good job specially Beren Saat and Murat Ünalmis (Yusuf ). we can see that at the scene of Pigeons when Beren took care of them and the dreams to be free and best seen goes when she was wearing the trap bomb . for Murat Ünalmis (Yusuf ) his best scene when he took care of his father.. but its hard to believe people like them and their situation as a janitor son and a woman filed with feelings of revenge to fall in love with a short period of time I hope next time they ll do much better .