SPACES OF LOVE AND DEATH IN HALIT REFIG MOVIES |
Iki Yabanci [Two Strangers] (1991)
The ancient cities, the spaces of the past, give us clues to construct our histories. We learn from their construction systems, objects, how they used the spaces, etc. and try to find explanations for the present time. Those spaces that help construct our past, are protected to be visited once in a while. In that way, ancient cities are spaces that are isolated from life and society; spaces that remind us of loneliness.
The main character of the Two Strangers, Orhan, is an intellectual who is lost between West and East, his ideals and reality. He cannot reconcile in himself the West -that he thinks he knows- and the East -that he cannot confront with. His intransigence increases his isolation and loneliness and those concepts are concretized in the images of the ancient city of Perge.