The late Mr. Bekir ruled his household with absolute authority during the first section of the sentimental drama. Havva, his spouse, despised him for treating his kids poorly and for cheating on her. The elder son Kadir frequently received strikes from Bekir. Furthermore, he didn’t allow his children to attend school. Saliha, his child, slipped away for warm dates with Cemil, a boy who worked on the property. After punishing Kadir one day, suddenly the patriarch got ill and passed away. ..
What happened the day before Bekir fell sick?
Bekir, a man who loved spending time in the company of fire, was tragically killed when someone opened up the windows of his home during the late hours of the night, causing the fire to go out and him to succumb to the bitter cold. ..
How does the family cope after Bekir passes away?
When the traditional and occasionally violent patriarchal head of the household passes away, their mom Havva takes charge of the dysfunctional family and takes her young kids from the town in hopes of a good future. Kadir, the son who endured severe trauma as a child, discovers his voice as a moviemaker and uses cinema to communicate his suppressed feelings. This is the main theme of Berkun Oya’s movie.
Saliha and Yusuf were the only two children of Cemil and Fatma. They were both born in the early 1960s, just after the death of their father, who had been killed in a car accident. Cemil and Fatma had two other children, but Saliha and Yusuf were the only ones who knew about their father’s death. Saliha and Yusuf never spoke to each other because they couldn’t communicate properly. But because their mother never shared the horrifying truth about their father’s passing, there was an air of secrecy surrounding the tragedy. Saliha and Yusuf would often go to mosque together, but they never talked about what happened that day or anything else related to their father. Saliha was always very close to her younger brother Yusuf, even though he didn’t know about his brother’s death. She would often tell him stories about her dad or how he had been when he died. And she would always try to comfort him when he felt upset or sad.
What happens to the family after the children become adults?
Kadir is making a movie about his experiences as a child, years after his father’s death. When Kadir is making the movie, he uses real people related to his life events as characters. Additionally, he chooses to use their old home as the movie’s background and calls Cemil to sing the same folk tune. ..
Covid has once again caused a family rift. Havva, the elderly woman with dementia, is now living with her divorced daughter and granddaughter Naz. Yusuf, the youngest son, is married and has a child but appears dissatisfied with his life.
What builds the tension in the movie, and what happens thereafter?
Naz’s grandmother Havva begins to exhibit signs of cognitive decline while Kadir is filming his movie at the old property. Naz’s niece Kadir’s niece Naz was entrusted with capturing behind-the-scenes footage while Kadir’s movie was being shot at his home. Naz had been attempting to capture a video of herself along with her grandmother and her mom. The elderly woman, interestingly, makes a startling statement on camera while spending some quality time with her daughter and granddaughter that Naz appears to have forgotten. ..
Kadir’s feelings overwhelm him, and he is unable to finish the movie on time. On watching the BTS videos taken by his niece Naz, his childhood trauma resurfaces, causing the finished result to be delayed by two additional years. ..
How did Bekir die?
Naz searches for the old tape and watches it in an attempt to understand what her grandma had said after returning to the country house. Kadir, Yusuf, and Saliha join her. The siblings see the video of their mother, who was mentally sound back then and they are moved. However, what she reveals in the video baffles them all.
After the story’s main points are made clear, Yusuf becomes upset and cannot comprehend its origins. Saliha stands still in the aftermath of the discoveries, Kadir tries to console Yusuf, Havva eventually goes back to her delusional state of mind and murmurs a few sentences after everyone has left the room. ..
We finally understand the true significance of those lines after a long pause in the movie. Havva admits in the footage that she was the person who hosed down the fire and opened up the windows that chilly night. In addition, she is in the frame for a considerable amount of time before the movie screen fades to black. As if allowing time for the agony and guilt to fully sink in.
The conclusion of Cici indicates that Havva crushed some sleeping pills into Bekir’s beverage the night Bekir fell ill after disciplining Kadir with the garden hose. She wished to make her husband fall sick so she opened the windows and doused the fire. As a small child, Kadir had formed a close bond with Havva since he had consistently stood by her when their conservative father was enraged. ..
Havva had been deeply wounded by her son’s suffering at the hands of his dad. Although she was unable to foresee his eventual demise, she did deliberately want him to spend the entire night outside in the cold and get sick. Yusuf and Saliha were upset after they learn the truth. Kadir is not shocked as he spent years hiding this from his siblings since he had previously watched the video. Havva wanted her son to spend the entire night outside in the cold and get sick so that he would suffer. Yusuf and Saliha were upset after learning this, while Kadir was not surprised as he had known about it for years. ..
Does Havva regret killing her husband?
Havva appears to have opened the window as a form of punishment in retaliation to Bekir’s mistreatment of his child. Havva’s remorse about having unintentionally murdered her spouse persisted and intensified over time. She loved Bekir more in her final years because she was full of guilt. She could not even endure the pain and guilt of playing the wife in Kadir’s movie. Furthermore, she didn’t want her kid to disrespect his father in his movie. ..
In her later years, Havva would spit and criticize herself in a mirror for what she saw as her own fault. This behavior was motivated by her own conscience and the guilt she felt towards herself for confessing her guilt to Naz in the movie’s end.
Havva’s revelation also provides context to the incident where she wept by her husband’s side while he was dying. Those were feelings of guilt instead of tears of sadness. Does the widowed woman regret killing her husband? Her three kids will most likely never receive a straightforward answer because of her dementia.
Cici is a new movie that tells the story of a young girl who is forced to leave her home in Sicily and move to America in order to escape the violence and poverty. The film is well-made and has a great message, but it can be difficult to follow at times.
