Aftersun

🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷 The first time I watched this I cried because of the plot. This time I cried because of the plot and because I miss Turkey so much. Like actually now that I haven’t been to the one place I spent a good chunk of my life this movie hits so close to home. Like in EVERY way from being so lonely not knowing anyone besides my family but being too scared to talk to anyone my age. People watching the floating ocean bar I wasn’t old enough to go to. Hanging out with my cousin and her friends when I was like 10 years younger than all of them. Going on solo missions. The çay, the language, the mountains, the restaurants, the ruins, even the damn bougainvilleas this movie had everything. I even had a friend I also met in the game room at our resort (shoutout Sammy from Belgium) who I would happen to run into every year during Ramadan and would explore and play with me. So basically Turkey is already such a special place to me so this movie associating it with the picturesque memory of a person that’s now gone is completely devastating. This movie beautifully depicts the layers in parental relationships and the dissonance between how children see their parents vs how they actually are. Also how mental struggles are reflected in children.  This hits particularly close to home and god I love this movie and even more because it’s of my homeland. Teşekkur ederim ve iyi geceler.