FATE

FATE (YAZGI), 2001

Turkey| HDD, Color, 120’| Turkish

Cast: Serdar Orçin, Zeynep Tokuş, Engin Günaydın, Demir Karahan

“As a film-maker, what attracts me mostis the dark side of human nature” says Zeki Demirkubuz who loosely based Fate on Albert Camus’s novel The Stranger. The film tells the bizarre, nonsensical story of an individual who feels guilty without reason and refuses to exercise his will.

“(...) In one aspect, Fate is a film about Musa’s extremely monotonous and boring life... It’s a film about an unusual character who lives in a modest apartment, who works in a boring office by day and blankly stares at the television in the evening, wakes up to construction noise in the morning, stares out the window when bored, and observes the objects in the room while people are talking... It is doubtless no coincidence that Demirkubuz shows over and over again Musa entering and leaving his apartment, opening squeaky doors, and turning on the light. It would be difficult to understand Musa without understanding the tedium of everyday life.”– Mehmet Açar