Achtervolgd door de verdachte dood van zijn zieke moeder, overtuigt Ali zijn raadselachtige tuinman om een koelbloedige wraakactie tegen zijn vader uit te voeren. Maar al snel beginnen er twijfels te ontstaan over de vraag of wat hij deed wel goed was.
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- Kevin Ward30 juni 2025The Things You Kill is a brooding, elliptical study of grief, inheritance, and the cyclical nature of violence—familial and otherwise. Directed by Alireza Khatami, the film follows Ali (Ekin Koç), a literature professor whose quiet life in rural Turkey unravels after the suspicious death of his ailing mother. Grief quickly gives way to revelation as Ali begins to suspect his estranged, abusive father may have been behind it. The most interesting thematic here is the idea of transformation as a kind of self-erasure. In one of his lectures, Ali explains that the Arabic root of "translate"—rajama—can also mean "to kill." It's a potent metaphor for the film itself: to carry oneself across the abyss of trauma is to kill the self that bore its weight. Resonantly, Ali decides to take vengeance into his own hands—and the hands of his newly hired gardener, Reza. But as Ali’s violent path unfolds, the film asks: is Ali that different from his father? What happens when you kill a version of yourself? What’s left behind? Is a new self born in its place? Motifs of burial, water, silence, and fertility run deep—and there’s so much more to unpack. The gardener’s name, Reza, paired with Ali, forms a quiet doubling of the director’s own name, Ali-Reza, making the film’s structure and themes even more curious. A thought-provoking thriller.
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The Things You Kill was released on 25 april 2025.
The Things You Kill was directed by Alireza Khatami.
The Things You Kill has a runtime of 1 u, 55 m.
The Things You Kill was produced by Elisa Sepulveda Ruddoff, Michael Solomon, Mariusz Włodarski, Alireza Khatami, Cyriac Auriol.
Achtervolgd door de verdachte dood van zijn zieke moeder, overtuigt Ali zijn raadselachtige tuinman om een koelbloedige wraakactie tegen zijn vader uit te voeren. Maar al snel beginnen er twijfels te ontstaan over de vraag of wat hij deed wel goed was.
The key characters in The Things You Kill are Ali (Ekin Koç), Reza (Erkan Kolçak Köstendil), Hazar (Hazar Ergüçlü).
The Things You Kill is a Thriller, Drama film.