Once Upon a Time in Anatolia Page #3

Synopsis: In the rural area around the Anatolian town of Keskin, the local prosecutor, police commissar, and doctor lead a search for a victim of a murder to whom a suspect named Kenan and his mentally challenged brother confessed. However, the search is proving more difficult than expected as Kenan is fuzzy as to the body's exact location. As the group continues looking, its members can't help but chat among themselves about both trivia and their deepest concerns in an investigation that is proving more trying than any of them expected.
Genre: Crime, Drama
Director(s): Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Production: The Cinema Guild
  19 wins & 26 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.8
Metacritic:
82
Rotten Tomatoes:
92%
NOT RATED
Year:
2011
157 min
$138,730
Website
1,259 Views


I can examine you then.

No, God forbid!

- Why?

- I know how it's done.

Oh, right.

There's nothing wrong with me.

But check the prosecutor, I'd say.

He's coming.

Is it above the road or below?

Let's hear that first.

Huh?

You came this way.

- Down there...

- You're saying it's down there?

What about the tree?

Where's the round tree?

The tree there, you can see the top.

Can we look there?

- That tree down there?

- Yes.

Headlights, sergeant!

Headlights down below!

Mehmet, point the lights down below.

- Diggers, over here!

- Mr. Naci!

- Shall we bring Suspect Two this time?

- No, not necessary.

- What's your name?

- Hayrettin, chief.

- Fahrettin?

- Hayrettin, chief.

Why did you both bring shovels?

Huh? Fahrettin?

Hayrettin, chief.

I'm asking you something

and you correct me, son of a b*tch.

If you can't dig up the ground here,

I'll use you as a pickaxe.

Got that, Fahrettin?

Captain, switch to full-beam!

Is that full-beam?

- Come down a bit.

- Is that full-beam?

Switch to full-beam!

Point them at the trees!

What's going on?

Where are they?

- Down there, looking around.

- Is this the place?

No idea, doctor.

First the guy talks about fields,

now he says it's the hillside.

I don't get it.

Hey, Arab.

There's a bunch of sculptures

over there.

Sculptures?

Oh right, yes.

There's a lot around here.

They're paying you overtime,

right, doctor?

I don't know. I expect so.

They will.

They should.

The money's good

when it's a corpse.

Look at Tevfik.

He never misses a chance.

All that overtime and suddenly

there's a second storey on his house.

It's raining like crazy

over in Igdebeli, doctor.

It'll be here before you know it.

I come here a lot, doctor.

You see, I love it here.

I jump in the car.

I fill up my pockets with bullets,

40 or 50, come here and fire away.

If there's no game around,

then straight into the air.

How can I say?

It's a way of letting off steam.

So you have a gun, huh?

Who doesn't round here, doctor?

You can't do without a gun.

There's good people and bad.

You can never tell.

If it comes to it,

you have to be ruthless.

And shoot them

right between the eyes.

That's how it is

around here, doctor.

You're kind of forced to

take matters into your own hands.

If you can't manage yourself,

they'll handle it just like that.

You won't know how it happened.

That's how it is. Behind the wheel,

by the window, and for free as well.

They won't fall for it.

They won't be fooled.

They're tricky crooks. What's worse,

they make out you owe them.

I know, I'm telling you.

You have to stay in the circle,

and keep an eye on the center.

How about the hoop?

Would that do? Sure, that's OK too.

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Submitted on August 05, 2018

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