Anybody could explain to me what happened in the ending? I'm not sure I understood. Was the sheikh aware of Muharrem's swindle ? But anyways, I found the ending a little bit too tragic! Any ideas?
Good movie, a really poor ending. I agree.
shareWhether the Seyh is aware of it is unimportant.
Muharrem sees a woman buying expensive jewelry, and she appears to be the woman that has been haunting him in his dreams, leading him to sin. When he finds out that she is Seyh's daughter his whole world collapses, he can't accept the fact that the Seyh is sinful, and he gets a stroke.
How do you come to the point that the Seykh is sinful?
I see the end as Muharem gets a nerv brakedown because he noticed that the girl out of his dreams is the daughter of his seykh.
The end is left on purpose without clear ending, I think.
Throughout the whole movie Seyh tells him that material things are not for pleasure but only to help him do God's work. He can use them but it's a sin if he enjoys them. And then Muharrem sees Seyh's daughter buying very expensive jewelry. She couldn't have done anything without her father's knowledge.
The Seyh doesn't give any credit to people when they are sick or in trouble, they still have to pay or get evicted. Then part of that money is used for expensive cars, suits, phones, jewelry... Also those businessmen who came to bribe Muharrem acted as if bribing was a normal thing, they have probably done something like that before.
So at the end Muharrem realizes how naive he was and his whole world collapses.
In the beginning Muharrem has a simple world he lives in.
Then he is starting having dreams about a woman, later money and wine are added.
The sheikh, a spiritual guide; then takes him to the order, where he gets a room and a new task, which is basically collecting the rent of the order's real estate.
taking him out of his convenient environment and leading him through temptation, so that he will grow as a sufi, this is the main goal of the sheikh's efforts.
in the scene where his room is packed with suits, *beep* a nice watch , an expensive pen etc the sheikh'S assistant tells him that none of this is important as long as he's not getting attached to it. a clean heart will accomplish the new tasks easily, only the impure heart will be corrupted by the temptation.
when one of the families can't pay their rent, the sheikh's assistant is like blinded and insists on getting the rent, but the sheikh lets Muharrem choose.
His choice is either to force the poor family to leave the house and to get new renters or to sacrife the rent payment and helping out the family but meanwhile decreasing the order's income. this is a test of the sheikh but muharrem doesn't get it.
another test is the car shop, here the owner is drinking boose, and muharrem is not okay with it. when he asks the sheiks assistant, the assistant tells him not to bother, because their business is based on renting the workshop to the owner, what the owner does inside is his personal matter.
when muharrem's dreams about the woman and other stuff are getting more and more intense, the sheikh offers him to marry his daughter, but muharrem declines the offer.
even the sheikh's absence was a test. not blindly following a sheikh but to use your own brain.
in the end he follows this mysterious woman and he is shocked when he realizes that she is the sheikh's daughter.
in the ending scene the sheikh explains that muharrem is caught between to levels of purity. being pure without any temptaion is easy, the next step is to be exposed to temptation and withstand. but muharrem coulkdn't handle the stress and is totally confused which results in an insane mental state.
i really liked this movie because it shows you that your only alternatives aren't a religious life or a life in sin. the sheik's daughter is good metaphor for this, he could have married her and stayed within religious boundaries, but in his dreams they commit adultery.
great movie....wonderful end...no hollywood happy ending stuff...reality is hard, so is the movie.
Well, I'll have to rent this movie again. I posted the first message more than two years ago and cannot remember precisely what the ending looks like! Anyway, thanks for your ideas.
Poster airtwist has a good grip of the story, imo.
Saw this movie only late last year, and was moved by Muharrem's story.
Blind devotion to the strictures of a Sufi brotherhood and living such a closed simple life as the protagonist had done throughout most of his life, and then getting exposed to the wider world of reality - with its temptations, its corruptions, its tragedies and its complexities proved too much for this simple man. His religious beliefs in great conflict with how it really was when he got pushed to face worldly realities - and his unconscious desires exerting themselves in his dreams, all of those did him in emotionally, psychologically and his sanity snapped, reducing him to immobility - bedridden, mute, with eyes glaced and unseeing, barely a shadow of the man he was once.
I think it's a great movie, with an outstanding performance by the lead actor, Erkan Can.
No wonder it got so many recognitions from different parts of the world.
Truth inexorably,inscrutably seeks and reveals Itself into the Light.
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