Honey (2010)

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

A Major Disappointment

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

beauty is the basic virtue of film. the beauty of images, the crumbs of mystery, Bora Altas are parts of this delicate, light-dark movie.a slice of pure life. that is all. and the delicate art of director to create the thirt part of a trilogy. seductive Turkish film, it is mixture of different lines of common life, religion and forms of poetry, small gestures and childhood perceptions. embroidery of signs and looks,it can have a lot of keys. but fundamental thing, the secret of this fragile construction, reflection about essential ingredients of life remains this special beauty. but it is not the unique source of fascination. because it is a correct story and each viewer has chance to discover his well known part. the school, the relation with the father, the image of mother, the wood, the different feelings, the search, the sleep and the shadows from little Heaven are drops who can make Honey a real good movie.

BAL is a spectacular film. It's not a film meant for festival audience. It's not a film promoting some highly intellectual ideas few can make sense of. It features a breathtaking beauty, beauty of life itself. Without any superficiality such as music, effects and faster than life rhythm it creates suspense so much so that we stay on tip toes till the end wondering: what shall become of Yusuf? And we find it out at the end...OK I don't want to spoil it. But let me tell you one thing when the movie was over nobody could move from their seats. This is the miracle of Dir.Semih Kaplanoglu. No doubt Golden Bear was a well earned award for him and for BAL.

As an occasional movie watcher, I decided to see this film after it received the Golden Bear. As a Turkish watcher, I realized many defects about the film. First of all, the father, and especially, the mother of Yusuf does not look and speak like natives of Black Sea region where the film was taken. They speak Turkish without any accent which came to me very unpleasing from the beginning. We realize the difference very clearly when the mother takes Yusuf to an older neighbor to take care of him before she goes to search his husband. The neighbor is a native of Black Sea region and speaks Turkish with a flawless Black Sea accent. Another problem in the film was that Yusuf can sometimes read and sometimes not. He can sometimes speak and sometimes not. I have not heard any illness as 'sometimes speaking and sometimes not'. What is the point in it? It was very annoying to me and the whole plot was about that. There was no particular subject. The scenes are very long and dark as if it were an horror movie but it was not. Maybe they tried to create another Haley Joel Osment but without any acting and concrete plot you can not do that. In my opinion, it is a very boring film. I really wonder how it received the Golden Bear.

From time to time you encounter a movie that's excellent, but somehow doesn't get to you the way it should. This one's such a movie.So much is done the right way: the calm narrative style and some wonderfully photographed scenes deepen the already atmospheric location work; the actors are convincing; and there's no need for cheap plot twists and conclusions.But something's missing, maybe some sort of magic realism that would transcend the simple story into a meatier concoction.I liked it, but I didn't love it.7 out of 10 humiliating book-readings