recommended

One of the best films i have seen

disgusting, overrated, pointless

Did you people see the same film I saw?

The Film Mustang, is probably the best international film I have seen yet! I highly recommend this film for a feminine audience because it is about five young girls. It contained lots of suspense and I was always sympathizing for the girls because of their harsh living conditions. At first, I did not understand why the grandmother imprisoned the girls in the home, but I realized it was because the girls were doing unrighteous acts with boys at the beach. I noticed as each girls would get married, the family of the bride would host the wedding at their house, something that most don't do in the United States. In the United States, most weddings are held at a church or a special place reserved. I noticed that in this film, marriage was portrayed as a very big deal. As each girl came of age, or showed that they have reached womanhood, they would be married off. They didn't have to wait until they were 18, like we do in the U.S. In the United States, it is illegal to be married at any age under 18. In Turkey, marriage would be done as soon as possible. I also noticed that a girl could not get married if she wasn't a virgin. This film contained girls running away, or constantly trying to escape the household because they were under such strict rule. I don't think I would have acted any differently though. If I was living like that I would most likely want to run away, which is what the girls did at the end. I don't think I would have changed anything about the ending of this film because the girls looked at peace when they realized they were finally safe.

What if The Virgin Suicides (1999) live in village in Turkey nowadays? They would be wise, rebellious, loving, curious but in the end they would be only seen as an object that should be well prepared for man. Very enchanting movie about narrow-minded, aggressive and discriminating society.

This film is a great example of how a movie can be ''off topic''The director thinks that Turkey is a catholic based country. She doesn't know Turkey neither it's people nor culture. There is a totally misunderstanding or intentional attempt of diversion.It's filmed in Black Sea region of Turkey and the scenario is also having a body in this region. But the problem is; this region is not that conservative. Maybe it would be filmed in the southeast region then my critics would be little bit moderate. But never could be a indulgent level, just little moderate.Poff, no matter how she is rebellious, a Turkish girl never take a stranger from the street to the car and having sex with him, while his uncles is taking money from the bank. No one, believe me! Probably in the world as well.The girls are grown up in that region but somehow they are really effected by western culture. And having troubles with facing this west-east conflict. It's really funny.All the keywords like; incest, social pressure, child marriage, rape are used by the director. She set up her structure on these keywords. But the cocktail which is made by those key words is really insincere and nauseous.Of course the film has a message! Which is basically the easiest and effortless way, may be the one of the best clichés in the modern Turkish academia and literature. And this is ''Education is indispensable'' Just name it, say it and everything is gonna be alright! Oh my god. God protect this movie by the audience

I must say Deniz Gamze Eruven's movie had an impact on me. But I suspect this might be due to the subject matter rather than script or directing. I'm Turkish, we do have child marriage problem thus I was interested in seeing this movie. But the movie has so many problems with its script, directing and acting (although acting problems could be due to bad script and directing) I must say this movie could have been a lot better.First I must commend Erguven on one important positive aspect of the movie which is being balanced. It is a movie about a depressing subject but the director did a good job on not creating an all dark movie.However, as being balanced makes the movie more realistic the artificial dialogue makes it quite unrealistic. The movie is in Turkish however to me it seems like the script was written in a foreign language first (probably French) than was translated into Turkish. Neither the girls nor the grandmother have the slightest of rural accent. There were moments where I felt these girls are from an upscale city family and their biggest problem is getting the latest iPhone, not being locked up in a house or being forcefully married to a stranger in early ages. Secondly with the exception of little Elif the movie lacks character development, it's a bit too short for depicting five sisters with serious problems.