10 DAYS OF A CURIOUS MAN

Turkey, 2024, 110 minutes, Colour.

Nejat Isler.

Directed by Uluç Bayraktar.

This is the third film in a trilogy of Turkish crime investigation tales. It follows 10 Days of a Good Man, 10 Days of a Bad Man. And many of the cast appear in the three films.

The focus is on Sadik, seen investigating crimes of the previous films, his writing a novel, the manuscript rejected, his reaction and further investigations.

There are all kinds of complications in the city, burning buildings, rebuilding, zoning and forests, political corruption, personal corruption, intrigues in relationships.

Sadik and his associates see themselves as the equivalent of the police, vigilante imposers of the law, including executions.

This film, of course, presupposes audience knowledge of the previous films and the characters and response to them – it could stand alone but it does presuppose a great deal.

But, for the fans of the previous films, popular entertainment.

1. The third in the trilogy? Popularity? Turkish audiences? Universal audiences?
2. Audience liking of the first two films, the central character, personality, writer, investigator, vigilantism? His associates, his team and his control of them? The women, relationships?
3. Murder mystery, complications, twists, investigation?
4. Introducing Sadik again, his manuscript, the rejection, his reaction, coming out, the cats, the woman feeding the cats, the old lady, her nephew, the dog, his being photographed?
5. The setting, the car, the robbery, hiding, the chase?
6. Sadik, the women from the past, relationships, Pinar, this association her life, career, the text and photos, coming to him, the older woman and her drinking, finances, television hopes? Calling his team, their personalities, tough, comic?
7. The background of the mystery, finances and officials, corruption, buildings and zonings, the burning down of old buildings, clubs, dancers, the sex dimension, exploitation?
8. The mystery of the young woman, feeding the cats, her apartment, her dancing, her name, the videos, the costumes, the disappearance? Her link with the young man, his selling the bottled water? Their hopes?
9. Her being missing for 14 days, Sadik and his curiosity, inquiries, opening up the range of crimes and criminals?
10. The range of villains, the agent, good reputation, his wife and her amorous liaisons, the revelation of the nephew, the gun, the shootings and deaths? The revelation of the setup and her going to Sadik’s house, drinking with the woman, the compromising photos, the police suspicion?
11. The bosses, the sexual encounters, the clubs, the brutality? Sadik and his confrontation with the boss, the interrogation, shooting him?
12. Tracking down the wealthy businessmen, Pinar and her leads, her growing involvement, the meetings, the set-ups?
13. The businessman, his affair, abducting the woman, the interrogation, the man in the pool, relaxing, Sadik and the crew, the interrogation, shooting him?
14. The tracking down of the nephew, his cough mistaken for a laugh, the dancer, his blackmailing, the money, the apartment, the trick with the two apartments connected, Sadik using his phone, giving his crew the instructions, their overcoming the villains, setting the fire?
15. The finding of the dead body in the bath, the assault, Sadik killing the killer?
16. The happy ending, Sadik vindicating his capacity for investigation, writing, detection? And the proposed marriage and the benefits for Pinar and her progress?
17. The popularity of the trilogy?