Muharrem lives his whole life in his father's home, works in the job, which assigned by his father. Muharrem's first boss was the father of his current boss and Muharrem's own father was the one who introduced him to the older boss. Morover, Muharrem is a member of a religious sect led by another powerful father figure. He forbiddens himself any kind of women relationship and intimacy. Anytime he is waking up in an arousal state following a dream - interestingly always the same woman, who he has no clue who she actually is- he washes himself to clean from the sin. So far he takes himself innocent, humble person who is devoted himself to the Patriarch with greatfullness and feith. Until one day, when he was challenged by a sin other then lust. The seductions of material world like job promotion, priviligaes, being in a position to seal other's fate. In the film this was first showed in a scene where the fury member of the sect puts an apple -the universal symbol of the first sin- on the table while Muharrem is having his dinner and arguing with Rauf about collecting money from the mechanic who was drinking alcohol (raki) during Muharrem's visit. Struggling with these challenges makes him an anxious man. First he tries to cope with the new feelings by repeating over and over the old rituals like praying, cleaning and namaz. But his weapons (like praying) are no more sufficient to protect him. The talented actor Erkan Can reflects his feelings brilliantly. You can see Muharrem is in anger yet there is astonishment in his eyes. And during this struggle he finds no comfort or guidance from his Religious leader. Because religion is a distant, numb ideal, has no real power on when it comes to an actual threat. The moment that Muharrem realizes or finds out that the women in his dreams was actually the daughter of the religious leader he follows in that moment he collapses. This scene was implied with a heavy rain and flooding of the subconscious. That's the manifestation that he has never been innocent or clean from the sins as he thought he was. He was unconsciously dreaming for his leader's daughter, looking her with men's eye, which is taken as a great sin and ungratefulness to the sact in the eye of the religious public. The film ends Muharrem in state of catatonia. The religion cripples him yet his state of catatonia was declared a holy position by his religious leader and this is how the wheel goes on to grind the people further and further.
Review of Takva
