Filming for the movie 'The Ordinaries', written and directed by theater and film actor and director Şerafettin Kaya, continues in Istanbul's Beyoğlu and Fatih districts, with Ulaş Zeybek serving as director of photography.
The production, which features a cast including Suat Arıkan, Şerafettin Kaya, Gül Gülsün Yıldız, Hacı Ali Konuk, Volga Sorgu, Tankut Kılınç, Kübra Yüksel, Yağmur Bulut, M. Halid Hamarat, Göksel Ener, Müge Karataş, and İbrahim Sevinç, tells a metropolitan story where different lives intersect.
Writer-director Şerafettin Kaya
Focusing on the lives of people who find themselves on the fringes of society, 'The Ordinaries' explores themes of crime, loneliness, love, unemployment, art, and reckoning with the past through a multi-character drama. The film, in which characters with different lives cross paths in the same city, reflects the conflict between societal expectations and an individual's desire to be themselves.
Namık, who carries the anger of injustices he suffered in the past; Yıldız, who rejects the life her family mapped out for her and works as a street artist; and Meliha, who chases her dream of becoming a musician, are among the film's prominent characters. Salih, who tries to build his own life on the streets after leaving an orphanage and creates a world for himself through poetry and fanzines, and Yunus, who struggles to survive within the world of crime, also form important parts of the story.
As the characters' paths cross, relationships of friendship, love, and solidarity develop, while economic entrapment, reckonings with the past, and increasingly harsh conflicts begin to test these fragile lives. Through different life experiences, the film questions whether an “ordinary” life is a safe haven or a system that alienates a person from themselves.
“Perfection is definitely a crime”
Speaking about the process of the film's creation, director Şerafettin Kaya said, “My concern was never just to make a film. It was an effort to tell what needed to be told.” Likening the filmmaking process to a long journey, Kaya stated, “I define myself like a long-distance bus driver without a conductor. But reaching the destination is very important.”
Emphasizing that the film describes inner worlds and deadlocks with a poetic language, Kaya said, “Every line of dialogue we wrote is like a poem. It is very difficult to externalize our inner world. I used a lyrical language to describe that deadlock within the film.”
Kaya's previous film, 'Before I Became a Good Person' (Ben İyi Biri Olmadan Önce), won the “Best Feature Film” award at the 9th International Paris Play Film Festival in 2021.
News Source: 12punto
