The series "The Two Faces of Istanbul" - a new film adaptation of the novel of a famous Turkish writer Peyami Safa, a story about the difficulties of selection, the contradictions in the views and upbringing that determine not only the present but the future.

You can not love two

The heart of the young and beautiful Neriman (Neslihan Atagyul) belongs Şinasi (Yunus Emre Yyldyrymer). They grew up together in one of the poorest districts of Istanbul, like each other and are planning to get married one day, no one doubts that they will be together. After one incident with her sister Shanasi, he moves away from his beloved, and she felt the change in him losing confidence in their choice.

Cousin Neriman Pelin (Kadir Doğulu) invites the girl to a party on the occasion of the arrival of her boyfriend Majid (Kadir Doğulu). Majid embodies everything that Neriman have never been: he's rich, educated, he seems to be free from the conventions of the world in which she grew up. She is interested Majid first glance, everything would be fine, but he reaches out to her. They will have to choose to be together, leaving the miserable two of their loved ones, or to ignore the feelings erupted and I got life.

Joy rich and poor

Safa Peyami novel written in the first half of the twentieth century, it is about social inequality and condemning the craving for riches, in pursuit of which has to transgress the moral foundations. For the new film adaptation of serial Scriptwriter and director Jairo Ersёzu Sadullahu Selena ("The role of life", "Nedopetaya Song") had different accents, to an interested spectator.

In fact, how the perception of history through the prism of modernity Neriman, you can see the evolution of views on the role and rights of women in Turkey, the attitude toward wealth, redistribution of roles in the family. Tradition, according to television pictures, in Turkish This gradually lose significance in their place come the European values, such as the human right to personal happiness, the right to dispose of themselves and the pursuit of material well-being.

Neriman history and her family are still many simple and straightforward, though received another reading. In the series, we pay more attention to confront the past and the present in the capital of Turkey than the corrupting influence of money and corrupting Western spirit for fragile minds of young people, in the heart of the story more personal experience than generalizations.

Big world little girl

The main character feels an internal contradiction with the fact that he sees with his own eyes, going through because he could not accept her lover because he belongs to the sister who became pregnant out of wedlock. Neriman not understand the desperate desire to defend the honor of the groom's family, her unpleasant universal condemnation girl made a mistake. The situation with his sister Shanasi, makes a girl wonder whether she wants to live according to the same principles or not.

Neriman by actress Neslihan Atagyul appears on the screen is not even a girl, and almost a teenager, angular and jerky, it feels rebelliousness hidden upbringing. It does not share the main installation, adopted in its neighborhood, "where he was born there and handy," does not want to live all his life quietly and with dignity. Gradually she realizes that her aspirations and desires will never be understood by someone, even a fiance, and the gap between them increases.

Confrontation and Majid Shanasi in the series - it is no longer the opposition workaholic and playboy, Majid, whose role is played by Kadir Doğulu, the character of another kind, it attracts Neriman not that rich, and that thinks otherwise. She chooses not between men, and between what in the future will be considered correct.

It is noteworthy that the "Two Faces of Istanbul", released in 2013, it is not the first film adaptation of the eponymous TV series,. The first version appeared in 1991, while in the four series was told not only the history Neriman, but also developed a line parallel to a certain Olga, has abandoned the simple Russian guy to follow a Greek millionaire. The two girls in the course of the narrative strongly condemned for having betrayed the sincere feelings and share them on the material well-being.

The new melodrama "The Two Faces of Istanbul" with 8 series, for the Turkish TV series is a surprisingly small form, however, there is tightness in the history and it is well shot and edited. Filmmaker Sadullahu Selena managed to modernize the classics beautifully, and this is the main advantage of the project.

Anna Chizh

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