(film 188 minutes)
Directed by: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Language: Turkish
Rating: 4/10 | Yaser Tohidi
September 25, 2019
A young graduate, Sinan, comes back home hoping to fund his book through public or private authorities of his hometown. He is also looking for job as a teacher but finding a job is not easy. Sinan is a pessimist and criticizes everybody. He finds negative response for his book just because it is not something authorities can use to strengthen their position in power. Anyways, Sinan steals an old book from his grandfather’s house and also, he sells his father’s favorite dog to fund publishing his book. Apart from this, what makes Sinan sadder is that he finds no interest for his book among people; alienated people who try to survive their difficult economic situations in different ways. His mother watches series, his friend marries a rich guy, some people find shelter in faith, and his father finds shelter in their farm after retiring from teaching. Father is showing happiness despite his difficult economic situation and criticisms he receives from his family because of his insisting passivity in facing problems. He finally abandons the well he was trying to dig to reach water and brings some kettle to the farm instead. When Sinan comes back from his military service and visits his father in the farm, he finds out that his father is the only one who read his book. Sinan restarts the well digging in the final of the movie symbolizing the same loneliness and passivity that generation after generation has fallen into him, his father and his grandfather although there is a dim hope that he might finally break through, reach water and make their farm green.
The Wild Pear Tree is a social drama happening in a city, small town and a village with eye catching camera shots. Sinan, the protagonist, is a critic of the common sense but he fails. He is going his own way of life paying the cost of becoming a stranger. However, after failing in his path of becoming a writer, he fails and restarts the well job, something they have done generation after generation. He accepts his destination of being lonely like his father and his grandfather. He finds out that his destination is the same passivity and finally, he accepts it. The Wild Pear Tree is getting a poetic tune in some plans highlighted by music and slow camera moves. This slow rhythm contrasts with the back and forth dialogues between Sinan and different people. The dialogues which are most of the time extra and distracting. These make the movie longer than necessary. In The Wild Pear Tree story does not develop. The movie shows only the situation. The only move in the story is the final where the protagonist fails and hides himself from everybody in a well and performs the most useless job, maybe just to give away his anger and survive passing his life. Sinan, the protagonist, fails and because of this, Wild Pear Tree does not give you a good feeling after watching. Sinan is locked in his situation and he cannot break free. The antagonist is the situation and it finally wins.
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