Gegen Die Scepter (Head-On)
June 15th, 2008Cast: Birol Unel (Cahit Tomaruk), Sibel Kekilli (Sibel)
Sibel and Cahit come across in an infirmary after neglected self attempts. Cahit swarm his motorcar into a paries. Sibel cut her wrists. They are both Turkish immigrants in FRG, part of the unseeable, unwished, teeming men.
‘Head-on’ is less of a movie and more of an at the same time absorbing and torturing clank towards limbo. In constituent it acquires histrionic. But that makes not thing for a movie such as this. It pulses with love and life. It sheds blood, it scorchs its way into the viewer’s bosom and mind.
Cahit makes clean tables in a pub, passs his hours in a boozy stupor. One time in a piece he has a cursory fuck-session with a hairstylist. He is way past even being an also bum. He has essentially stopped up dwelling. He is someways carrying off to haul about any sherds rest of his life.
Sibel comes up from a conservative Muslim family. Her blood brother bust her nose. Because he saw her retention custody with some bozo in the street. She thirsts exemption. She understands spousal relationship to Cahit as her route to get away from the smotherring immurement of her family’s custom and religious belief. Cahit is duplicated her age .But he would be satisfactory to her family as he is a Turk.
Ab initio Cahit scorns her advances. But she is unrelenting. She demoes her earnestness by cutting down her wrists a sec time, with a beer bottle in forepart of a bunch in a pub. Eventually, Cahit softens.
He travels to Sibel’s begetter to enquire for his daughter’s manus. He is gone with by an ally sitting as an uncle. He assures that the cocoas he’s occupying as an endowment do not comprise alcoholic beverage. When Sibel’s mistrustful and mistrustful blood brother enquires him about his ‘not overly good’ Turkish, he replies, “I dropped it away”.
Sibel and Cahit get hooked up with. We get more than an intimation that no full is moving to come up of this trades union of two mislaid psyches. They get coked up to make out with the celebrations. On the hymeneals nighttime, Cahit throws Sibel extinct of the house when she enquires him about his former wife. Sibel travels to a taproom and goes away with the barkeep.
Sibel feels she has that she has eventually been emancipated of all shackles. She gets dressed up every nighttime, moves to discos and clubs and sleeps with the first guy she sees. During the four hours, she fixes Cahit’s house, cuts his hairsbreadth and cooks and makes clean for him. Cahit recognizes easy that he is coming down in love with her, with her sweetheart and flavour. But he was the one who forced her away.
And she too ca not let him sleep with her nowadays. As that would get them husband and wife. And the entire point of her ‘marriage’ would be overcame.
In spite of themselves they get close, they get to give care. But then fate interposes.
Their love narrative pips off along whole an unexpected way of life. Enduring is visitted, heaped on till the hurting gets unendurable. Still the unlawful bittersweet termination encounters some kind of salvation for both Sibel and Cahit.
Sibel and Cahit are not precisely likeable fictional characters. They are on an machine destruct style. But their despairing sinning search for intending in their abyssal lives is in some manner profoundly touching.
Hitted in the raunchy doing work category suburbias of Hamburg, ‘Head-on’ places earlier our oculus the lives of so far some other community of interests of citizenry of no land. And in the interim it sayes a romance, one that is blisteringly rude and cruel…the very anti-thesis of romance.