Country: Turkey
Directed by Ozer Kizitlan
A very well made movie with a main character who looks totally real, with a human vulnerability that, even if we probably have totally different living conditions, we can identify ourselves with him, Takva explores the difficulty, almost impossibility, for the individual to live a virtuous life the way that the traditional religions define it, in our modern world that is full of temptations and almost obliges you to value money and power in order to fit and function in it properly. Although the film, no matter how slightly, criticizes the Islamic sects and generally all the religions that have similar demands from the believers, still keeps a very solid distance from having a black/white, bad/good approach. Is not the organized faith that is blamed for everything nor the world is evolving in a wrong direction: just the two can't go really together and the honest person who gonna try to combine them most likely it has to face a mental breakdown and a crisis of consciousness
