About Dry Grasses

Ceylan at his most twisted, most cynical and most reckless also happens to be him at his best form yet. Ceylan uses his twisted sense of humor really well for the first time with About Dry Grasses. For a film that might seem depressing on the surface, the first half made me laugh a lot. The second half was a ticking time bomb, never exploding and ticking even after the movie. Samet and Nuray are probably the greatest characters Ceylan has ever written. While Samet is basically the pseudo-intellectual whose tired of the life on Anatolia on the surface, he is actually Ceylan himself in my opinion. The director criticizes himself and his own audience so well with Samet, it’s more than noteworthy. While with Nuray, it’s the opposite. Nuray is a first time for our director. She criticizes Samet and finds him not so intellectual and intelligent, she finds him pretentious and criticizes him for it. With Nuray, Ceylan does the same. He criticized himself and his audience with the most twisted meta commentary i’ve seen. Ceylan opened up so many threads, it’s hard to write a review but for now, it’s Ceylan’s best film yet and the best film of this year too.