Mutih Skeini

It is rather of a movie filled with criminal actions and counter actions from the antagonists and from the protagonists, similar to Hollywood movies with violence. The movie excels even Hollywood in the brutality of action. Now, remember that I watched this whole movie yet I neither speak nor understand Turkish!

And well produced movie with on stage excellent performance with an intense dram that capture the emotion. Thank you. (though I do not speak or understand Turkish, still I enjoyed watching this movie.

Though I do not speak nor understand the Turkish language, I have not been impatient to watch this movie drama. The passions and emotions invoked were superb. The intensity of the drama along with the photographic music is indeed moving. There are certain emotions pity and fear (harmless) but other emotions envy and ambition, and the implication I also extends to other strong emotions like anger, rage, and overweening desire and pride. I delighted in such work of art of movie making that acted splendidly on the stage. A tragedy is the imitation not of a thing but of an action, "complete and entire of itself," says Aristotle in his timeless Poetics, having a beginning, middle, and end, and dealing with an event or series of a certain seriousness and import. And this movie (The Great Oath 1969) has the action sufficiently important and serious. The great emotions presented on the stage of this movie were so moving, that when it was over--exorcising or driving out those troublesome emotions from one's soul--a kind of catharsis of harmful passions, leaving the viewer, as he departs from the theatre and for some time afterward, purified and cleansed and more able to deal with his/her worldly tasks. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to comment on this movie which is a piece of art, a replica of the ancient Greek tragedy of Aeschylus and Sophocles.