Movie Review: The Cemil Show Is an Interrogation of an Impossible Aspiration
When you canât distinguish between fantasy and reality, itâs madness; when you donât want to distinguish between them, itâs cinephilia.
A still from The Cemil Show .
Film10/Feb/2021
Cemil (Ozan Ãelik), a 32-year-old man, works as a security guard at the InciPark mall, âthe pearl of Istanbulâ. A milquetoast employee, he is insulted by his boss, ignored by his colleagues. Cemil is a nobody. But something shifts in him, when heâs watching old Turkish B movies: He becomes a somebody.
Revering the veteran actor Turgay Göral (Fuat Kökek), Cemil copies his moves. He imitates dialogues, threatens enemies, shoots them with a gun. Like his world, his gun is make-believe, too, shaped from his thumbs, index and middle fingers. Life is drab without a dream; Cemil has one, too: He wants to be an actor. BariÅ Sarhanâs