Lack of good storyline.

A very feeble attempt at affirmatie action

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Ex-architect Yesim Ustaoglu was inspired to make this film after reading newspaper articles about Kurdish villages laid waste in southeastern Turkey. Given the level of censorship she faced, this lyrical, deceptively simple tale about love, loss, and identity (brilliantly shot by Kieslowski's old cameraman Jacek Petrycki) is all the more courageous. The story starts with two outsiders, Mehmet and Berzan, meeting in Istanbul, where both are eking out an existence in the face of police oppression. When Berzan is killed, Mehmet embarks on an epic journey across country to return his body to his home village. Ustaoglu is never didactic. Instead, she shows the bafflement and yearning of the young friends as they struggle to make sense of their predicament.

this is really an amazing movie that left me stunned for a long time. Ustaoglu has made a film of a pure essence that rely heavy on the visuals and grabs itself deeply in your heart. Like Silent Hill or Apocalyse Now it shows shots that burn into your brain and remain there long after. Beside this it delivers insights in the nature of human existence and his place in the universe. For Journey to the sun not the people in itself generate hate, exclusion and violence but all prevailing power structures that suck up a whole state like a sponge. Mehmet, one of the protagonists, goes on a journey that brings him to the root of humanity and the meaning of life. This movie demonstrates the importance of friendship and solidarity beyond and above all walls of hate and malice, and how paper thin is the line between unlimited humanity and border generating, infamous barbarity.

This is not the first and unfortunately not the last example of the success of a movie which simply attacks the Republic of Turkey.The point that filmmakers ignored is, years ago when "Midnight Express" came out, it was easy to blame Turkey for being intolerant about human rights and undemocratic. But now - come on Turkey is a candidate member of European Union - EU acknowledged that Turkey's acceptance and applications of human rights issues are no less than any other member nation. A movie which serves peace shall not be based on lies.It is as illegal to stop a bus and arrest a person without a reason, a warrant, necessary legal procedures in Turkey as it is in any other "western", "civilized" country. Also, present Turkey is not the same country as it was 30 years ago. I find a desperate and biased effort in this movie that tries to paint Turkey as a "dangerous" and "not such a good place to visit".All I can say is that, this movie is simply propaganda, and a very poorly produced one.

Anyone interested in learning about human rights abuses will want to see this film. Journey to the Sun is the first film of 2001 to be nominated by the Political Film Society for best film exposé, best film on human rights, and best film on peace. I found it to be very moving, within the context of 2 Kurdish friends in Istanbul. This film is an antidote to the oversimplification of world history & politics in most Western films.