A man obsesses over taxi safety while his own life quietly explodes.
Alim works as a tailor's apprentice to Yakup for the past 15 years. Obsessive and fearful of death, he is stuck in the routine of a mundane life. He opens the store in the morning and either takes a nap or watches TV until his boss arrives. In the evenings, he goes home carpooling with Kemal from the coffeehouse. When he watches a new item on TV about the perils of cars running on LPG, he starts to check out each taxi he rides on to see whether it runs on autogas or not, each time, he marks a score. To avoid using a vehicle, he dicedes to move to a newapartment closer to work. This change he makes will be a vital turning point for Alim.
Acting
Hakan Atalay's micro-expressions do all the screaming his character won't.
Direction
Konuk finds horror in fluorescent lighting and empty afternoons.
Director
Emre Konuk
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Turkey's autogas taxi controversy was real news in the 2010s, making Alim's fixation oddly topical rather than purely neurotic.
The 86-minute runtime is deliberate—Konuk wanted audiences to feel the same temporal drag Alim experiences, not merely observe it.
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