The first thing this trailer tells us is that the movie was Germany's official selection for the foreign language film Oscar. It says nothing about it having been nominated, though, so we at least know there were five films in the world that the Academy deemed better than it. We then find out it's from the director of Head-On, which probably means something to a miniscule segment of the population, but apparently they'll take what they can get on this one as far as selling points. Next, we get to know that it won best screenplay at Cannes and at the European Film Awards. All of this is intercut with scenes that mean very little and are loosely connected: a train tunnel, a pretty girl with a piercing stare, two girls talking at a diner. And then we get a lot of confusing, seemingly unconnected scenes. One of the ladies in the diner is from Istanbul. Some police do something. An old guy is there. There are lots of guns and crime, but also lots of normal stuff like introducing someone to your mother. There's applause, riots, dancing, people holding hands in what looks like a stark hospital room. People sitting on a bus. Someone telling someone in jail that they want to help them. Someone looking for their mother. It's all very confusing and unclear, but either the gritty quality of the film or the Turkish music makes me want to watch it despite having no clue what it's about.

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