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Fate

2001 · 119 min

A detached, quietly unsettling plunge into a man's emotional numbness, where ordinary events carry a strange, alienated weight.

Directed by
Zeki Demirkubuz
Genres
Drama
Starring
Serdar Orçin, Zeynep Tokuş, Demir Karahan
Overview
Musa, a customs clerk, sees life as absurd. He drifts with events; his mother's death, though loved, brings him strange joy.

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Directed by
Zeki Demirkubuz
Genres
Drama
Starring
Serdar Orçin, Zeynep Tokuş, Demir Karahan
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Tone
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 2 of 3
  • absurdstrength 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
  • isolation
  • identity
  • death
  • fate
  • morality
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror1
Humour3
Realism8
Romance2
Tension4
Darkness7
Complexity7
Emotional weight7

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