This is a German movie that won an award at Cannes for best screenplay. It's a story of three child/parent relationships with an overlay of Turkish political activism.It's quite sad, but somehow the style of it was soothing -- perhaps because one of the main characters (the guy on the poster to the right) quits his professorship and moves to Istanbul to open a small bookstore which then becomes the set for a number of interesting (and calm) scenes.
I had a hard time understanding the goals of the Turkish dissidents/activists - I am not sure if they were fighting for a more secular society or a less secular society.
I like movie scenes where people look at water (I am thinking right now of "A River Runs Through It," but I think it's a fairly common motif). This movie ends with the scene pictured at right, and I liked this ending.
59. The big complaint yesterday was that Geithner's bailout plan does not have enough details (in particular, how the 'bad assets' will be priced and bought). Will the Administration now feel compelled to develop/disclose more of those details, quickly, in order to calm peoples' (and the markets') anxiety?
