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As great a movie as it is, I really didn't understand much of it, can anyone explain it to me.


Hi, as great a movie as this it, "Thou Gild'st the Even", which, from Old Shakespearean English basically translates to "You Make the Night Shine", I have to admit, much of its "storyline" I didn't really understand, can anyone who has seen it, and who also understood it well, explain some of it to me, including its "plot points" etc, even if, for the most part, this is basically a Turkish modern day crossover between Andrei Tarkovsky and David Lynch but has enough of its own flavour and talent to stand on its own feet and it is unique but couple of questions anyway.

1). What is exactly is the deal with all those characters having various supernatural abilities? Stopping movements and action on the street, being able to walk through walls, possibly travel in time, surviving gunshot wounds etc, where and how did they come from, is it just a fantasy world that this movie is taken place in, sort of like a Matrix-like modern day Turkey?

2). What exactly is the deal with the main character Cemal and is he supposed to be a good guy (or at least a likeable central character) or some kind of weird anti-hero with supernatural abilities? Why does he shoot that man in a car with a shotgun (and why is the victim able to survive those wounds?), what was his beef with him? Who is that young woman he meets with short hair and why does he chop her hands off towards the end of the movie? Who is that other woman (wife?) on the airplane at the end that is static in the sky after he apparently froze time? With whom does he fall in love with and why does he basically do what he does in the movie and where does his supernatural abilities come from?

3). That guy on the roof, why does he hang himself? And why does Cemal beat his dead hanging body with a stick?

4). Who were those bandits that apparently kidnapped the woman (wife?) close to Cemal and what did they want with him or her?

5). How come those guys are able to shoot real bullets by merely pointing with their fingers?

If anyone can answer these questions, please do so. Yeah, very strange film, really. Maybe a lot of it was meant to be taken on a metaphorical level, and was there meant to be a hidden deeper message, maybe about Turkish culture and society masqueraded underneath surreal supernatural fantasy, who knows?

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