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The Third Eye

1988

A slow, uneasy descent into a writer's mind, blurring what he observes with what he invents until reality feels unstable.

Directed by
Orhan Oğuz
Genres
Drama, Fantasy
Starring
Tarık Akan, Meral Konrat, Savaş Ay
Overview
Tunç, who is a director, is looking for a location in a small town for his new film. He observes everything around him for his screenplay. However, he constantly changes what he writes because he doesn't like it. He tries to turn some of the events he sees into stories. But he can't seem to get it right. One night, Tunç visits his neighbor Seniha, an old actress. Some of the things Seniha says inspire him. He returns home and sits down to work on the screenplay. Tunç, who becomes deeply engrossed in the screenplay he has written, will fall into a state of mental breakdown.

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Directed by
Orhan Oğuz
Genres
Drama, Fantasy
Starring
Tarık Akan, Meral Konrat, Savaş Ay
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Tone
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
  • earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • obsession
  • art
  • madness
  • identity
  • isolation
Places
  • small town
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • unreliable narrator
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror3
Humour2
Realism6
Romance2
Tension5
Darkness6
Complexity7
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
drama, fantasy
Directed by
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Starring
Tarık Akan, Meral Konrat, Savaş Ay, Selçuk Özer, Ferda Ferdağ, Yaman Okay, Aliye Rona, Devrim Sümer
Cinematography
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Country
Turkey
Languages
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