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One Day in the Future (Gelecekten Bir Gün)

One Day in the Future (Gelecekten Bir Gün)

Movie · 2010 · 8 people

Boğaçhan Dündar directed Gelecekten Bir Gün (One Day in the Future), a 2010 Turkish comedy that was his first feature. With romantic and fantastical touches, it opened nationwide on January 15, 2010. Cüneyt Ceylan wrote the screenplay. Its lead, an internet personality, was taking his first starring role in a feature.

The story concerns Tolga, who fails again and again at work and in his private life. Believing he has lost everything, Tolga takes his own life, and two angels then appear to punish him by letting him live a day in Turkey five years on, showing how his life would have turned out. Hayrettin Karaoğuz plays Tolga. Rasim Öztekin is one of the angels and Hande Subaşı plays a city girl.

Karaoğuz had become known online through a parody of Issız Adam and then joined Okan Bayülgen's team. One critic wrote that this likeable face could grow into a comedian, given more careful, inventive projects. The same review calls the film a variation on the formula of Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life, where a hero who gives up hope meets an angel.

DirectorBoğaçhan Dündar
One Day in the Future (Gelecekten Bir Gün)

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Also in the cast: Hayrettin (Tolga), Bektaş Erdoğan

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AI-assisted editorial takes written from different viewer perspectives. They are not reader reviews; those are below.

Cinephile Looks at script, editing and directing choices; keeps a distance from formula films.

Boğaçhan Dündar's first feature is, as one critic noted, a local variation on the formula of Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life, in which a hero who has lost hope meets an angel. Cüneyt Ceylan's script promises an interesting twist by adding the idea of Turkey five years on to that familiar mold, but it doesn't fully deliver; the vision of the future mostly stays at sketch level. Hayrettin Karaoğuz is likeable in his first lead, yet the film never builds a structure solid enough to carry him. Rasim Öztekin's angel provides its most relaxed moments. You sense this team could do better with a more carefully crafted project.

Family Viewer Asks whether the whole household can watch it; cares about humor and heart.

Families sitting down to this as a comedy should take note: the story starts with the hero taking his own life. That subject isn't suitable for small children, and if you watch it with teenagers you may need to talk it over afterwards. The angels and the idea of a day in the future are fun, and Rasim Öztekin is very likeable. It's a light film for adults and older teens, but not for children.

History & Society Lens Asks about the period, the social background and what the work reflects.

One Day in the Future touches a familiar early-2010s anxiety through a young man who fails again and again at work and in his private life: the pressure to succeed and the feeling of having lost everything. The hero's day in Turkey five years on was a good opportunity for imagining a society's future; the film turns it mostly into a personal moral tale instead. Handling a subject as heavy as suicide so lightly within a comedy mold is also open to question. Casting an internet personality in the lead stands as a small record of how the entertainment world was changing in those years.

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