Yok Artık

Yok Artık

Movie · 2015 · 16 people

Yok Artık is a comedy film directed by Caner Özyurtlu and written by Serkan Altuniğne. The first film opened on September 25, 2015, with Şebnem Bozoklu, Caner Özyurtlu and Kaan Yıldırım among its producers. It was built around Fikret (Erkan Kolçak Köstendil), a taxi driver who works Istanbul traffic from morning to night and hears and lives through the absurd "yok artık" ("no way") stories of his passengers.

The sequel, Yok Artık 2, made in 2016 with the same director and writer, moves the telling from the taxi to a neighborhood barber shop. Customers at Adnan's (Şahin Irmak) shop listen, while being shaved, to the astonishing stories he has heard from his other clients. They include Merve (Şebnem Bozoklu), an advertising worker who left city life for a village; Aykut (Cem Gelinoğlu), who hears he is about to be fired; İzzet Bey (Zafer Algöz), who stirs up social media with his daughter Damla's (Yağmur Tanrısevsin) accounts; and Meriç (Onur Buldu) and his family, who get a shock in the village where they have gone to ask for a bride.

The sequel's cast also lists Merve Dizdar as Buket, Metin Coşkun as Baba, Hülya Duyar as Aynur, Deniz Celiloğlu as Rıfat, Çiçek Dilligil as Semra and Berna Koraltürk as Sibel.

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Cinephile Looks at script, editing and directing choices; keeps a distance from formula films.

Yok Artık is close to an anthology in structure: absurd stories told by taxi passengers, and in the sequel a barber shop. Keeping the setting fixed and multiplying the telling through stories is an economical idea, but inconsistency is unavoidable in such structures: some short tales are strong, others filler. How well Serkan Altuniğne's script ties the frame narrative to the parts is the real test. A safe formula for humor; it will not satisfy anyone looking for novelty in film language. The barber shop in the sequel repeats the same pattern in a new place; seen as a series, the formula leans on habit more than surprise.

History & Society Lens Asks about the period, the social background and what the work reflects.

Istanbul traffic, a father who trends on social media, an advertiser who flees the city to settle in a village: the film lines up some clichés and new problems of everyday Turkey. Moments like the confusion in a village visited to ask for a bride turn the cultural gap between city and countryside into joke material. This humor chooses laughing with familiar types over criticizing society. Superficial for someone seeking depth, but an entertaining cross-section for someone after topical observation.

Family Viewer Asks whether the whole household can watch it; cares about humor and heart.

A comedy of short, self-contained stories, so it is easy to dip in and out. The things taxi driver Fikret hears from his passengers are everyday absurdities of the kind talked over at the family table. But watching with children without knowing the comedy's limits is risky; I would suggest having a look yourself first. It may be an easy laugh for adults. The sequel is set in a barber shop, so the idea stays the same and the place changes.

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