12. Kabadayı

There is a movie called Kabadayı , directed by Ömer Vargı in 2007.

It is describing a story of bunch of "tough guise".

But in that movie there is nice detail. There is a man called "Sürmeli" (i think eye-lined in English).
He is homosexual. Everybody knows this. And nobody humiliating him.

But there is a guy called Murat. He is an illegal child. So they don't say his real father to him. He thought "Sürmeli" is his father until he is 15. In his 15, they explain that Sürmeli is homo-sexual and he hasn't got a father. And that day he ran away from house and starting to live in streets.

Years later, Sürmeli and Murat is meeting again. While they were talking, Sürmeli making a very effective speech . He is saying that he took care of Murat like his own children. He cried while he was singing a turkish song "My Mother , Lovely Mother, Take me on your arms." He said that to Murat that he didn't ran away because he was angry about Sürmeli and his mother, lied to him or he is upset about he hasn't got a father. He ran away because he were ashamed from "Sürmeli" . Ashamed from the truth that his father figure was homosexual. These shows the point of view of some people to the homo-sexuals in Turkey. It is very effective scene i think.

And there is more effective detail too. In the end of the movie. Everybody cheating to main chracter (kabadayı) . All these tough guys around the Kabadayı. But Sürmeli never cheats to him, always being loyal to him and maybe rescued Kabadayı's principles about being tough, strong, honest by helping him.

So this detail is describing the real toughness is not with violence or needs muscles it is related with character!

I highly recommend Kabadayı! It is really good movie!