The Edge of Heaven (2007)

Best movie ever!

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Improbable relations between countries, streets, airs and all, of which we can think vaguely presenting us a constant stance.When I first saw "The Edge of Heaven", this picture had spontaneously penetrated into my sense with its all superficiality, somehow.Regional sites that we experience ostensibly as we exist inside this vita which is, verily, so actual possessing today's articles.Political and sexual involution offers a great coast of a life of togetherness that is ongoing.Just happen in this picture and contact to grief, reprieve, jolt, expectations and complexity.

Was this going to be a keeper or be binned?Its all symmetrically constructed and contrived. A thick interwoven political seam is tying the film tidily too together. Narrative is jigsawed into precisely fitted – i.e engineered – plot pieces. Turkey bits slot into Germany bits and Germany bits get stuffed neatly into the Turkey bits (Lol)When a story gets to be too structured by coincidence it feels artificial. Life – authentic vitally lived life, in the raw, in the real – isn't scripted into tight predetermined plots.Seeing this confirmed a prejudice: the Turkish male attitude towards women (ok, thighbooted Turkish whores) is "I own you" = I'll slap you. Or we'll throw The Koran at you. Typically patriarchal and unsurprisingly chauvinistic. Therefore let Turkish women radicalise themselves, be running amok with guns. And love only women.(male Turkish Professors reading German are excepted, as they've liberated themselves via Goethe )The Turkish/Germany divide is suitably, equally, uniformly, intertwined. Commendable it is. Which is another way of saying worthy. But dull. Ken Loach would be proud.It's in the bin.

Aside from the outstanding work of the director and whole movie crew, one more thing can be said; the name is "F-a-t-i-h" Akin not 'faith'. And it means "the conqueror" in Turkish. :)Ironically enough it's the name given to F-a-t-i-h Sultan Mehmet Khan after he conquered Constantinapolis and have built a new city over the 7 hills of the metropolis that is "Istanbul". A historic turning point when once an ancient and eastern civilization marked its majestic presence in the west. Since then Turks literally became more and more of western civilization, not by only being influenced by but by influencing, 'manipulating', 'corrupting' and 'contributing' to it. :) Now Fa-tih conquers all cinemas of Europe with the themes in or about Istanbul, themes about east and west, themes of Europe and Asia, themes about Turks, Romanians, Bulgars, Greek and German people... A truly Turkish character, combining, contradicting, fighting or getting along fine with east or west. ;) Truly life and his 'fate' (but not his faith :P) has a solid sense of humor. :) Go F-a-t-i-h the conqueror! ;)P.S. Someone should warn IMDb about the automatic correction feature at least here on this page and have it disabled.

The Edge of Heaven, its English title, a film by Faith Akin, explores the difficulty of human connection beset by geographical, political, but mostly human voids acting in random fashion which at the end, dramatize the advice of the philosopher, follow your bliss. The central characters, an old man and his son and a pair of mothers and their daughters, stumble through their lives in a struggle to realize their bliss in our age of rootlessness and political chaos. The only center in this is affection and its tenuous nature. It is the sole verity. While the film seems loosely constructed, it nicely balances the characters with the daughters at the center and the others, despite the powerful presence of Hanna Schygulla, in a secondary role. Indeed it is the daughters Nurgül Yesilçay as Ayten and Patrycia Ziolkowska as Lotte that are at the emotional center of the film and it only becomes alive when they are on screen. Indeed their sulfurous embrace in a crowded, smoky club was breathtaking.