Gurbet, p. 2

Continued from the previous post.

(Oh, and don't read on if you actually want to watch this movie now 8-)

…After that, Zeki and Aliye decide to get married, but Aliye overhears police asking about her and runs away from home. Zeki finds her of course, and here’s the reunion scene with a dramatic confession and a heartfelt rendition of  “Torna a Sorrento”. After that, two guys from the draft office appear very conveniently to remind Zeki of his military duty. By this time your brain is almost completely eaten.

 

Zeki leaves for the army, making Aliye promise she’ll go and turn herself in to the police. Then we see him in his uniform writing a letter to Aliye, saying that “they didn’t cut my hair because they found out I had sinusitis” (I swear I didn’t make this one up). Aliye is in prison, surrounded by slags with peroxide hair, waiting for her verdict. She walks free after all, but Zeki doesn’t come back on time: the army doctor finds out he has gall problems (along with that sinusitis), which requires an urgent surgery and a recovery period. 

 

At this stage, the screenwriter makes Aliye go and visit one of those peroxide slags from the prison--who had earlier offered her some kind of a “decent job”. Our heroine is too innocent to understand what it’s all about, notwithstanding the fact she has been in jail after stabbing a sex offender. Completely unexpectedly, she finds herself in a seedy flat together with a bunch of prostitutes. Luckily, the police raid the place and arrest all the gals. Aliye now has to go through a mandatory hynecological exam. We see the close-up of a menacing-looking metallic thingie with an iodine(?)-soaked swab on the end. Scary. Next thing we know, the doctor tells Aliye: “Here’s your virginity certificate, and don’t you mix with those bad women anymore.”

 

Aliye walks out of the door--and runs into Zeki, who calls her a slut and spits into her face. Aliye is so shocked that she totally forgets she can make the movie 15 minutes shorter by showing Zeki that certificate of hers: in fact, the piece of paper falls out of her trembling little fingers. Later this evening, in Zeki’s house, she remembers and says: “Believe me! I even have a virginity certificate! Wait a minute… *starts searching in her bra* …I lost it!”

“You lost it, ha!” Zeki says, beats Aliye up and goes on a drinking spree that apparently lasts three days. He also has to sing “Kınalı keklik”, of course: 

(The credits say he wrote this song himself. Why didn’t he memorize his own lyrics, then?)

 

When he comes back home from the tavern, Aliye is not there: she went to visit her prison slag friend again, hoping that maybe this time she would offer her something decent.

 

Very soon, Aliye is lying on a bed somewhere, struggling from under a bad guy and screaming: “Zeki, please hurry or you'll be late!” Zeki forces the door open, punches the already standing bad guy in the face, looks suspiciously at Aliye who is still lying on that bed, and walks out.

 

The next day, Zeki puts his stuff into a bag and leaves for the railway station. After saying a sad goodbye to his buddies, he enters his train compartment—and finds Aliye there. Passionate kissing -> happy ending.

 Phew.

…Oh, and why is this movie called “Gurbet”, which means “A Faraway Land”? I have no idea. Because Zeki went to the army, I guess.