NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

Jacomedi A Surprisingly Unforgettable Movie!

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

guneria What made me watch this movie is that both l heard it from my friends a lot and also Yılmaz Güney's name is enough to watch it.Both in Persian and Arabic, "traveling" means "mosaferat" and the "person who is traveling" is "mosafer".It is a common fact that Turkish has been affected by these two prosperous languages. Turkish has these two words in its dictionary as well, but with a different meaning; that is to say, "guest" or " being a guest" . What l am trying to say is that Güney is expressing life itself in a fascinating way. Living the life is the mood of "being on a road".The life of Turkey in which Kurdish people go through after 1980 Turkish coup d'état. The life that especially the Kurdish people but the humanity in general experience. If the Kurdish people lose in the social and political life, they actually lose everything including family, wife, children, love, hope and so on.The two impressive scenes for me: 1) The wife of Seyit Ali dies at the exact point where his horse dies while he is going to get her.2)Because of traditional affairs, one of the prisoner cannot marry with the girl he loves. The girl is so beautiful that he falls in love with her immediately after seeing her.Instead, he marries his sister-in-law. When he goes back to prison the beloved girl cannot do anything but stare back behind her lover.

ar656 You know you are reading, or watching, a very good story, when the story refers to people from another place, country, continent, and/or culture, where what happens is closely related to their particular environment, and yet, it touches you because what the story says it is also very much applicable to yourself, your situation, your place, your country, your continent, and your culture.The main points of the movie are: 1) You do not need to be behind bars in order to live in a prison. In fact, at some point it becomes evident that most of the main characters are safer in prison than outside. Their lives are certainly more at risk travelling through the country than behind bars.2) Sometimes you do what society tells you you have to do, even when nobody will be better off. This is particularly evident about the end of the movie (spoiler alert), when one of the main characters, upon learning of the death of his brother, tells the widow "I am now your husband; it is the code", even though he has his eyes on another woman in the village, that other woman likes him, he does not want to be the husband of his sister in law, and the widow and her children do not want him to become husband and father. But "it is the code", and that suffices. As when at the beginning one of the characters is out during a curfew that he did not know it was in effect, and is detained. Everybody understands his predicament, but the law says he has to be detained, and so he is. In another story, a man has to kill his unfaithful wife, even though he does not want to.This is a must see. This films will describe not just what was happening in Turkey 30 years ago, but what is happening everywhere today, in one way or another. It is about living in a prison, even though you are supposedly a free citizen.

Elvan Elcin Powerful - is perhaps the best way to describe Yilmaz Guney's masterpiece, "Yol". The viewer is seized almost instantaneously and consumed within each struggling character. As the film progresses, the socioeconomic issues surrounding "Yol" deepen but its authenticity is never compromised. Guney manages to maintain the integrity of the Kurdish culture within the confines of the characters living under Turkish rule. Both cultures are shone in its bright and dismal colors, bringing attention to the repercussions that citizens endure due to the action of a powerful few. As expected, Guney manages to preserve accuracy throughout each thought provoking scene. One could only ponder what future great masterpieces Guney would have presented the world....He left us too soon….

twist32 This movie moved me deeply, although there are many cliches in it. It is made out of honesty and frustration over the turkish society, and especially the treatment of the kurds. I think it was filmed in secrecy inside Turkey, as the director was banned from the country and lived in exile. The actors do a magnificent job. I just got awestruck by this film. To understand it completely on should be aware of the desperate situation the kurds in Turkey have lived with for many years now. After I saw at at my local filmclub, I was unable to speak for an hour. If one has the oppurtunity to see it - please do so, you will not regret it.