Hi, anyone knows where I can watch Yabanci Damat with English subtitles?
Hi, anyone knows where I can watch Yabanci Damat with English subtitles?
Disclaimer: This is solely my interpretation.
Decoding - One Evening
The narrator is spending an evening with beloved girl at an expensive restaurant. While he is almost enjoying the food, the company and the ambience, his focus shifts to a known person sitting few tables away.
Without much suspense the narrator explains that the known person is his ex-GF, whom he had not met in the last 3 years. While he subconsciously recalls little details about her, he is quick to take mental notes of her being engaged and her man seated next to her etc. His two month old beloved quickly recognizes the change in behavior of the narrator and puts a natural question of "are you ok?" *iyi misin*. As quirky analogy of an under prepared student attending an exam, the narrator disguises his distracted mind with a smile and stuffs in the food.
There is also a curious man watching narrator's changing body language, as if he were to validate him. In spite of shrugging off looming thoughts on his ex-GF, her happiness and existence, there is a certain inquisitiveness which the narrator cannot withhold. Generally the past and present are not supposed to meet; it would create an anomaly called jealousy.
This takes him to follow her to rest room. (In fact I was imaging Engin as baker boy Kadir who did such insane stuff in Yabanci Damat ) The ex-GF gives him a death of thousand cuts, with much sweat and no blood shed.
Embarrassed with his behavior, he walks out of the restaurant for fresh air. He meets a knave who assumes the narrator having a smoke break and lights a cigarette. Walking close behind, is his ex-GF who also picks up a cigarette. Apparently it's their first puff with more coughs: D. The narrator foolishly assumes that smoke patterns to be her kisses, until interrupted by the knave who has been smoking since 28 years!!
The rendezvous ends, and narrator finds himself worse awkward situation when the ex-beloved, beloved and ex-beloved's man are at his table!!
Is it as good as sipping a Brain freezer? (Popular cocktail) or is it another relationship mess up summary or just another diary of one evening?
Have ever heard the concept of advanced awareness/consciousness? I decode that Engin is trying to introduce this to us with a oodles of OTT (Over the top) silly and difficult situations.*giggled reading the stuffing of meat, drinking water with haste etc.*
In the beginning of this essay the narrator laughs at the thought of his ex-GF sitting in the same restaurant at the same time. He is in a state of unawareness. Then he experiences powerlessness or lack of control with random thoughts in the chaotic setup due to self-awareness of ex-GF's presence and his beloved's concern. He stops to take audit of her eating, her high heels, her man and what not...to become aware of his faulty beliefs that she might not be happy etc. This is when he enters the state of higher awareness.
With the change in the awareness, the movement of perception also changes. Until the narrator hits the self-awareness, he unconsciously perceives the lives - his and ex-GF according to his illusions which he considers to be true, but might not be. As he prepares for his "exams" by walking to the rest room, his intelligence supports in discerning what is true. This is when he begins to realize that ex-GF is no longer interested with him and walks away nonchalantly. And finally he understands the need of control via a cigarette on a cold winter day, he opens to intuition.
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift - Albert Einstein
Engin's message to his readers is very loud and clear. See with intuition - not illusion.
Intuition, our sixth sense, is our brain's and body's ability to sense truth and make good decisions without having to rely solely on using data/evidence (observation or experience) and analytical reasoning (theory or logic). We need to develop the ability to sense and respond to the existing changes (similar to the dramatic turn of events at the restaurant).
Haven't we seen the futility of using empirical data (what happened in the past) to predict what is happening today or could happen in the near future. Time and time again, we see that today's social and ecological challenges no longer respond adequately to yesterday's solutions. We are undergoing a time of radical transformation where our past experience does not provide the answers we currently seek.
To conclude, the only way to change the what we see in the outer world is to change the perspective within ourselves which is randomly responding to negative triggers from outer world; commonly called wandering minds playing the roles of beloved x, y, z. ;-)
Once again, I am awestruck by the subtle push of the neo thinking via popular narration of a relationships, gender dominant intuition and funny scenes at the table.
Ustad, take a bow.
PS:
Oh btw he takes several digs at women who binge eat and hit the gym or flaunt their arm candies with large diamond rings or entire social circuit which is so artificial (read as plastic) with gypsum board fixed smile. *he gets really mean, doesn't he?*
Happy New 2018 to all Engin fans
Still waiting for the EAUFC version, as this translation obviously has some glitches. Still, I can't thank these translators enough who do so much as a labour of love.
Without even meeting most of them in person, this man has the power to weave golden threads between people from different countries, regions and religions!
Originally posted by: DefLeppard
EAUFC has not been active since long. Last I heard that the main person had a cataract surgery and things got slow.Ohh is that so? I hope she recovers soon and completely.This one does have abrupt end and glitches. We would have enjoyed the nuances better for one good translation, for once!!That's partly due the syntax and Symantec of the Turkish language.Anyways the essence stands out very clear.@boldAnji, every time I read Engin's writing, I get into state of Nirvana. He is neo yogi who can induce philosophy, humanity, sociology, history, well being...oh many things.I would love to hear your experience of reading this essay.
Dummycim, while the effect his stories has on us is pretty much the same, I do prefer to take them literally. I feel he puts himself as the first person in these imaginary situations where he is living out some subdued questions within himself.
Is Engin simply replaying situations from his life, taking incidents from the lives of his friends, turning observations of people in cafes into stories, or attempting to live an 'underground life' in which he is forever the suffering protagonist taking wry digs at his own sentimentality? Is he making a larger statement about humanity or struggling with his own doubts?
While the earlier stories were more about a wistful longing for childlike innocence, the recent ones seem to indicate dilemmas about Love. Be it 'Gitmek', 'Merhaba' (my favourite from 2017), 'Bence Sefa' or this latest one, the narrator is always left bereft of love.
No doubt, he has this calming, exalting effect on everyone who touches his life. But what of Engin, the man, who might be dimly aware of his own Divinity but would grow skeptical about it when faced with his very human dilemmas? He is so wise that we as fans sometimes bypass the puzzled little child inside of him. I wonder if the world confounds his self-image time and again. I wonder if he doubts his ideas about life. I wonder if his writing serves the dual function of making sense of life, and at the same time reminding him not to take his own faculty of 'making sense' too seriously
High on Enginisms, and very much make sense;-).Now I wonder if I am making sense...😕
Originally posted by: DefLeppard
@Anji
If we have to relate the effect of Engin's essays on us...its very similar to Einstein's "spooky action at a distance"Do I make sense now? ;-)
comment:
p_commentcount