About Dry Grasses movie review (2024)
Sure, Samet lies lots, however doing the alternative, being brutal honesty, is simply as hurtful.
Enraged about Sevim’s backstabbing, he tells the rowdy class that none of them will quantity to a lot apart from rising crops for the rich to eat. Statistically that’s seemingly a harsh actuality, however a part of his responsibility as a trainer is to lie and instill the assumption that they’ll surmount these circumstances in hopes {that a} handful of them are impressed sufficient to defy the percentages. As an alternative, he feels like a dictator making an attempt to silence the opposition, talking of his enemies, on this case elementary faculty women, as folks deserving of collective scorn.
Ceylan transforms quotidian encounters into conversational battlefields that unfurl the characters’ most ingrained apprehensions or unflattering instincts. That is distinctly true in scenes with Semat and Kenan’s new left-wing pal Nuray (Merve Dizdar), a former navy girl turned trainer who misplaced her proper leg in an explosion. The steadily paced, richly mental, and absorbingly acted scenes make the expansive operating time irrelevant.
When Nuray shares that she’s bought a automotive, Kenan reacts with real pleasure. We hear him rejoice, and minimize to her reacting in delight. The following shot exhibits Samet Kenan with disgust over his earnestness, a wordless second of villainy. When he lastly speaks, his companions don’t reply, they’re staring intently at one another. Samet acknowledges a connection is brewing. He’s jealous, not due to any curiosity in relationship her, however of the notion that others can expertise such pleasure. Samet additionally reviles realizing that Nuray finds Kenan, raised on this land and who he judges as uncultured, extra fascinating than him.
Over dinner on a unique evening, probably the most riveting ideological duel within the movie takes place — Ceylan’s quietly explosive dialogue rouses the thoughts. Nuray sees by means of Samet’s toxic politeness, used to disguise his staunch selfishness. The terribly restrained Dizdar, who received the Greatest Actress award at Cannes for this flip, provides voice to her galvanizing traces advocating for neighborhood, whereas he defends his inaction because the good choice. “Shall I inform the reality or attempt to make you content?,” Samet responds to her inquiries about the kind of individual he thinks he’s. However although motives differ, Nuray sins of concealment too when she asks him to not converse of their one-on-one night as to not damage Kenan.
