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Bliss (2007/Turkey/First Run DVD)

 

Picture: C     Sound: C+     Extras: C     Film: B-

 

 

It is constantly amazing how sad the treatment of women are in many lesser countries, for any country that treats women as disposable is a wreck.  More epidemic than you might think, the problem is being increasingly exposed in documentary and fictional works.  Abdullah Dguz’s Bliss (2007) is the sometimes painful story about honor killing, an all-time fraud where institutionalized acceptability of killing a woman for offending a man or family (usually when she did not do anything but exist) continues as you read this.

 

In this film (based on the Zulfu Livaneli novel) has 17-year-old Meryem found left for dead on the side of a road.  She has been knocked out and dumped to the side of a road, to which a cousin is supposed to kill her to keep the family honor, even if she did not have sex... and what business it is of theirs?  Even if she was raped by another man, it is her fault and she deserves to die?  To them, yes!

 

But cousin Cemal cannot do their dirty work, so the two go out on the road and discover Turkey and beyond in this well done film.  It has some spots that do not work as well as others, but this is an acclaimed film that deserves to be so.  Performances are a plus and it is definitely worth your time.

 

The letterboxed 1.78 X 1 image is soft throughout, but has some nicely shot location scenes and good framing, but lack of detail hurts this presentation.  The Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo is simple and better, but you still get some instances of problematic audio, but there are also subtitles as this is in Turkish.  Extras include Production Notes, stills and text biographies.

 

 

-   Nicholas Sheffo


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