tenshi_ippikiookami "Üç Maymun" or as the English title says: "Three Monkeys" is an OK movie, that offers good direction, a handful of good performances and nice visuals, but almost zero originality and little in tension or plot development.Servet kills a person and convinces his driver, Eyüp, to take the blame in exchange for money. But as Eyüp's son Ismail seems to be on a dangerous path, getting into fights and bad companies, Eyüp's wife Hacer decides to go and talk with Servet for an advancement of the money, a decision that will bring unexpected consequences.The movie doesn't offer much in the plot department. It is a traditional story of a dysfunctional family and of power relations, and corruption. The pace is quite contemplative, but assured and clear, and the tinge the whole movie has brings with it the right kind of mood. The actors all do a good job, even if it leans to the stoic kind of, with silences and contained-violence. But the movie lacks the touch that would make it stand out, and it ends becoming just one more of its kind.All in all, it is an interesting movie, but nothing out of the ordinary.

ronchow First of all to appreciate this film you have to be an art-house film fan. Pace is slow. There was an absence of sound track. And no action.I was first exposed to director Ceylan's work through "Unce Upon a Time in Anatolia", and was immediately addicted to his style of story telling. From the opening long take (a car driving down a narrow country road at night) to the ending take (male head of family standing on top of the apartment roof looking out to the sea and sky, deep in thought), you sense the Ceylan signature.This is a family drama, about how the lives of a family of three were forever changed after the head of the family, a driver, agreed to accept a deal from his boss to assume liability in a hit-and-run accident and spend 9 months in jail in return for a lump sum cash payment.For this film I have all the patience required. After two films by Ceylan, I have become a fan. Highly recommended for those that are interested in alternatives to Hollywood dramas.

Mike B There are long longeurs of people brooding that go on forever. Many scenes seem to play-out in slow-motion depression. The plot is basic enough - a politician swindles his driver to take the fall for a fatal accident. The driver goes to jail – the drivers' wife falls for the politician, the son of the driver finds out about his mother and when the driver is released from jail he suspects that not all is kosher. The family dissolves into a full blown depression and they speak in monosyllables to each other. There is even some science fiction when a long dead son starts miraculously appearing. I didn't quite get this part but it was pretty eerie!Really it's not that there is no empathy – but everything is so dreary that it just weighs you down. One wonders if there is any point to it all – I didn't see any. It's like an old Ingmar Bergman that has been transported to Turkey.

csaltun Nuri Bilge Ceylan shows us how an awful screenplay turns to a good movie in a professional director's hand. I think he deserved all those award because of that reason.Overall acting was good. Especially those two Yavuz Bingol and Ercan Kesal who are not actors in real (Bingl is a musician and Kesal is a doctor) were remarkable.By the way, to put a dead child in a movie to support the physiological atmosphere and subject of the movie was a good idea. But still I did not like the form of the child as he was too scary to be a part the movie. So, 0 for the screenplay, 6 for performers and 8 for the director.