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5.0 out of 5 stars
A German-Turkish Romeo and Julia-Story, 29 Sep 2005
"HEAD-ON" (Gegen die Wand) describes "The Clash of Civilizations" (Samuel Huntington) with the patterns of a ROMEO-and-JULIA-story: a ROMEO ("Cahit Tomruk" played by Birol Uenel) and JULIA ("Sibel Guner" played by Sibel Kekilli), influenced by the circumstances of our present age, are suffering under their identity-pain, caught in their specific story of woe: the differences between German and Turkish culture, between living in the red-light-area of big cities (Hamburg, Berlin, Istanbul), however born in small rural villages, tattered between disciplined middle class, drunken underdogs or fundamental Islamic believers beyond all social classes. In the beginning Romeo and Julia are in the protecting arms of a psychiatric hospital. But Cahit and Sibel prefer to break out. Unteachable they return to their red-light-districts. Back in their life of drugs and suicide, violence and one-night-stands there is a climax, that will render Romeo into a phase of heavy jealousy: He kills an admirer of his Sibel-Julia. Now he is in prison - and Sibel-Julia leaves Germany and escapes to Istanbul. At first in the helping hands of her middle-class sister (a hotel manager), Sibel again (the actress Kekilli is a former porn-star and plays it well) carries on her run-away-identity: back to the entertaining whiskey-bar harbor-area of Istanbul - not an inch better than the German Hamburg Reeperbahn-scene: drugs, sex, self-suicidal violence. Her Romeo, after his prison time, speeds via taxi to Istanbul - only to find his Julia deeply changed by a masquerade of middle class behaviour: no long hairs, intellectual glasses, no emotions, with a hidden, frozen soul, married to a middle class man. What he wished to find had gone. So he mournfully leaves Istanbul and crawls back into his very roots: a little Turkish town, where once he was born. An odyssey of finding oneself, though irreparable splinted up in the "Clash of Civilizations" ...
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