Friday, November 28, 2008

The lullaby of money

A nice coincidence brings Ben Hopkins' tragicomedy "Pazar - the market" in the same week as Ken Loach's "It" sa Free World "in the cinema. There are sister films. Both tell how a man in the globalized capitalism loses his soul. While Loach its findings primarily on psychological evidence and effects not waived, is the tone in "Pazar" clearly satirical and lyrical. The Song of money that Ben Hopkins is giving you, is gentle and sweet, a lullaby: It sleep all scruples On.

God makes you just not do business with the devil perfectly. That must also black marketeer Mihram (Tayanç Ayaydin) learn of Allah promises to stop drinking, if that he can give fifty million. "Everything has its price" believes Mihram, and actually seems to Deal with God fold: A hospital asks Mihram doctor, a vaccine for children to perform, pay, there is not, but with the money for the substance can be ultimately lucrative business.

A poor man is not Mihram. Tayanç Ayaydin was for his portrayal of this differential slit ear in Locarno as the best leading actor awards. Director Ben Hopkins, with "The Nine Lives of Tomas Katz (2000) and" 37 Uses for a Dead Sheep (2006) became known, is British; for the film but he has learned Turkish and a lot of time spent in the country, which is why his Film very "Turkish" effect. The film festival in Antalya was the German-British-Kazakh-Turkish co-production because even in a national competition with the main prize, a nice confirmation of this work.

That Loach's story from London attracts more attention than Hopkins' picaresque pieces from eastern Anatolia, has been with the quality of the films in any case nothing to do. It reflects the market conditions. Also, the global bazaar has its centers and peripheries, and the area in which Mihram herumschlägt, now belongs to the outermost times. One million lira, we learn, meet ten U.S. dollars. Because the millions with which Mihram handled, so little worth, can be distancing its business as a children's game, even though it to the dealer this is about survival.

On comical nature unhappy

With the money to buy vaccine Mihram one - unnamed, coming from Africa - commodities, smuggles him across the border to Azerbaijan, where it expensive to supply a Finnish mobile phone manufacturer sold. His uncle, an impoverished chemist, had given him the tip. In Turkey famous actor and director Genco Erkal plays this uncle, as "Italian nobleman who likes to comical manner is unfortunate," as he characterizes Hopkins. To roar are some funny episodes with him, the short story about his social descent: once in his life, tells his uncle, he drank - that is devout Muslims of course forbidden. But, said the uncle, there was nothing happening, not initially. Then he rewinds a disaster chain. In Suffer, he had abused his wife. Whose brothers had beaten him and the house demolished. And under the influence of his Kater, he had the next morning in an explosion in chemical plant caused, whereupon he would have lost his job. Actually, the women. . . They want a dishwasher and that their men into the sky, and do not realize that the two together does not work.

Even Mihram by his family strongly motivated, he wants Azerbaijan to the business enough money for the legal license to sell mobile phones deserve. The mobile in this film follows the connection of East Anatolia to the rest of the globalized world, which, it seems, is everywhere under the same laws work. With all his cunning and life experience plays at the end of each Mihram only if the local mafia in the hands. In the world of trade just hang everything together. Basically, it was clear from the outset as a customer Mihram same antenna cable had sold to this previously had been stolen.

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