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Question about uncle


I didn't realize he was molesting the girls. When did he do this? I must have missed it.

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We see him getting in (or out of) the girls room.

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There are several parts that give clues.

There is one point where the youngest is in bed and she sees the uncle go into the sister's room. We then hear wimpering from the room.

There is a part later where the uncle was in the room with the second-youngest sister and we see her frantically scrubbing at something on her bedsheet. Someone said they thought that this was her getting her period and trying to hide it because being a woman would mean she can get married. But I think that it's more likely that it connects to the whole thing with the older sister and the idea of having sex with a virgin and getting blood on the bed.

Lastly, there is the scene where the youngest sister sees the uncle leave her sister's room. She follows him and happens upon him in the kitchen right at the grandmother is saying something like "What were you doing?".

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Your first point is at 56 minutes and last about 2 seconds. I had to watch the movie a 2nd time to find it.

In the two later scenes that you mention at 1 hr 13 min, you have them reversed. He is seen leaving the bedroom and then she is seen cleaning her sheets. They come back to back. I think that young sister is cleaning semen from her bedsheets.

in another thread where the sister commits suicide, it is suggested that she should have killed the uncle first and then herself. He is scum.

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Your first point is at 56 minutes and last about 2 seconds. I had to watch the movie a 2nd time to find it.


I liked that it was not completely in your face.

The uncle is awful, and I think it's a good demonstration of how certain cultural norms (not just in Turkey) allow such abuse to continue.

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I saw this movie years ago, I missed that part as well.

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Molesting. What a weak word for what really is rape.

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