What is your reaction to Yazgi? Why is the setting so drab, alternately dark and then light? Why is the camera so stationary and why are the characters so lacking in emotion?
How faithful, or not, is this film to The Stranger? The police investigator says late in the film that Musa reminds him of a character from a French novel he read once. This seems to be a reference to The Stranger. But if he's referencing The Stranger in the film Yazgi, then can Yazgi be a true adaptation of The Stranger?
In the movie Yazgi, the character Musa and the character Meursault from the book are very similar. They both show no feelings. For example when the mother died. Musa and Meursault had the same expression as nothing important had happened. Also when Marie asked Meursault to marry her. He just accepted because it didn't matter. The same thing happened in the movie.
ReplyDeleteSomething that caught my attention was how she fell in love with Meursault. Not to mention that the character of Marie in the movie is hot.
ReplyDeleteMusa in the movie is so boring to watch because he is so emotionless. Reading the story behind Mersault's thoughts was, in my opinion, way more entertaining than watching Musa's emotionless life be portrayed in front of me. The scene in the movie when Musa goes to his house and brings the girl and she says do you like me? and Musa's response was basically along the lines of "sure", then she hesitated to enter his apartment, but does so anyway, this makes me question what made her want to go inside, even after he's showed her how off he is.
ReplyDeleteYazgi was a film that had to do with murder, and a suspect trying to get away from getting caught. In the film the setting is drab, alternately dark, and lacking in light because of what is going on in the film, with the man abusing the woman. The camera is stationary, and the characters are lacking in emotion because of the fact that they know a woman is being abused, they do not know to react to it. This film does seem to a reference to the novel The Stranger by the murder taking place, and that same man being sent to jail the same way Meursault did in the book The Stranger when he killed the Arab, and was sentenced to prison.
ReplyDeleteAfter reading the book and looking at the movie. I would say the only thing similar is that both actors were emotionless,however the movie portray a difference concept. In the book Mersault's was being convicted to killing the arab whereas in the movie Musa is being convicted to killing his boss family.Reading the book and looking at the movie doesn't convey the same messages.
ReplyDeleteI found the movie to be somewhat boring compared to the book. Musas character in the movie I felt was portrayed rather well as being Mersault. The biggest thing I think that the movie took away from the story was the fact that in the book you are able to get the personal perspective and thoughts of Mersault. With those thoughts it gives the readers more depth of his character in the book which to me gave me a better understanding of Mersault yet in the movie that wasn't really there which to me made it kind of awkward to watch this man show the lack of emtion in situations.
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