Каква е вината на Фатмагюл? (Fatmagül'ün Suçu Ne ?) - Тема 108

    A WOMAN HOLDING HER HEAD HIGH
“What’s Fatmagul’s Fault?”, which is the most feminist TV Series according to me, is going to farewell to the TV screens this season. The last episode will be aired on Thursday, June 21st. Ece Yoren, one of the scenarists, says that they had to defend themselves against some group of people by saying “we are not making a TV series about a rape” and they fought back against this group, first with silence, then with official statements. She says “a member of the Parliament insulted us by labeling us lunatics and perverts. We went to court and the judge didn’t accept this as an insult. We filed appeal against the court verdict but there is no hope. We got hurt a lot at the beginning while telling Fatmagul’s story.”

 They also lived marvelous things. She continues “This story is accepted by majority. The success of this show belongs to the actors and the actresses. The success of the director has been appreciated by the foreign countries. We told this story to very far countries as well.”

 ENEMY IS EVERWHERE

 She indicates that they did some changes to the original story as they did to other stories and she says “Fatmagul and Kerim personas in the original film script were very different because the conditions were very different back then. Kerim was among the rapists and was saving himself and his friends by law if he married Fatmagul and he wreaked his anger on Fatmagul by tormenting her. He even caused Fatmagul have a miscarriage by beating her during her pregnancy. We wanted Fatmagul persona that we wrote to be a character that held her head high, looked for justice, questioned, wasn’t afraid of looking in the eyes of the offenders, waited for their punishment, and wasn’t afraid of fighting for her rights. We portrayed her like this.”

 She says that they told the real victims to raise their voices in Fatmagul’s persona and this is very important. She says “Fatmagul’s enemies were outside of the house but there are such stories in Turkey that victims’ enemies are in the house, right beside them, sometimes their brothers or fathers. We told them to raise their voices, not to be ashamed, and let them be ashamed and punished.”

 AN IMPOSSIBLE LOVE

 So, Fatmagul became a woman keeping her head up. She says “We slowly raised her voice by not hurting anybody, and by not painting very pink picture. Now, she is a woman that earns money and owns a business. She is a student trying to get a high school degree; she is a woman that wants to get a driving license and learn other languages; she is a woman that wonders other places and tries to get out of the circle drawn around her, and she is a woman supported by other Fatmaguls.”
 And love… She told that they sprouted a love “in the middle of impossible.” She says "Kerim is not innocent. Fatmagul isn’t healed yet. But, she wants to heal. She will wear her wedding dress in the episodes that we have been writing now; because everybody wants Fatmagul to be happy. They want to see their wedding right away and they want them to live their intimacy in a sensational level.”

 And the series end on June 21st. I guess it is going to be a happy ending.