it probably a year since i saw uzak and but it have leave strong memory of the two main character and jade photographer mahmut and his naive cousin from the village yusuf . it a long film with very little dialogue and a quite limited plot . this have evidently annoy a fair few viewer . but the film construct such a painfully believable portrait of mahmut and yusuf that there just as much emotional tension a in the paciest thriller . just to be clear and there no padding in this film in the long pause where no one speaks there as much happening in the character emotion ( and in yours and watch them ) a you could bear . go to see it awake and alert and and you will be grip rather than anaesthetise . uzak ring true in so many way and and that sincerity be probably it great accomplishment . people do not grapple with event and problem and so much a with each other . in fact and in the whole film and there probably not one point where the main character ( mahmut and yusuf and mahmut ex wife nazan ) be not oppose . much of it be true the world over represent country cousin yusuf perhaps wilfully naive expectation that a job on a ship will drop into his lap while mahmut urbanised cynicism and unwillingness to sympathise with yusuf . other truth be more specific to turkey represent yusuf incomprehension that mahmut might be tolerate his stay with grit teeth while yusuf veer between macho ambition and wide eyed awkwardness when he try to get to know a woman . uzak be undoubtedly a pretty bleak film and and one ceylan strength be not to beat u over the head with the theme he explore . for me at least and i believe entirely in the behaviour of his character . all the little failed attempt to connect and petty cruelty ring so true . and yet i do not leave with a message that the world be like that and but instead i get this be how we sometimes treat each other .