Mustang Movie Essay

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Mustang— a wild horse, symbolizes power, strength, glory, and so much more in this “transfixing, atmospheric, intimate drama” (Mustang). Mustang (2015) by French-Turkish film director Deniz Gamze Ergüven won the award for Best First Feature Film at the Cesar Awards. In the movie, five sisters who share a common passion for freedom find ways of getting around the constraints imposed on them. The narrator, who is also the youngest sister, Lale (Güneş Sensoy), takes charge with her dominant persona in finding an escape for her and her sisters. Based on Middle Eastern culture, these girls portray sisterhood and coming of age by communicating a strong message of women's empowerment and what it means to be a young female living in Turkey. The film describes female struggles and liberation by making the young actresses vividly and believably a sibling unit. They are said …show more content…

When the girls reach home, they find out that their scandalizing neighbor snitched on them for their obscene behavior. "My granddaughters! Pleasuring themselves on boys' necks!", their grandmother cries. After that, they are placed on lock down and deprived from anything perverted that can corrupt them any further, soon turning their home into a "wife factory." The sisters only way of escaping this oppressive life is through an arranged marriage, a scheme the youngest has put together, or a move considerably more fatal. A symbolic moment that occurs at the dinner table is of a real broadcast of a government official telling women to be "chaste and pure and know their limits" (Mustang). He proceeds on saying that they should not smile, or laugh loudly in public and they should just look down. Desperate for liberation, the film shows the drastic measures taken to make their lives their

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