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Honey

Semih Kaplanoglu · 2010 CE · Film · Turkish · Contemporary

A six-year-old in the mountain forests of the Black Sea coast stammers at school but speaks easily to his father, a beekeeper who sets his hives in the highest trees, and who whispers with him about dreams on the understanding that saying one aloud stops it coming true. The bees have started disappearing, and the father goes further out to find them. Last of Kaplanoglu's trilogy, told backwards through one life.

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Attributes

Genre
Coming-of-AgePsychological
Theme
Coming of AgeLoss of InnocenceNature vs CivilizationFaith & Doubt
Archetype (Jung / Campbell)
InnocentMentor
Plot structure
Exile and Return
Symbol / motif
The ForestThe TreeRain
Conflict
vs Naturevs Self
Mode / tone
LyricalRealistElegiac
Culture / tradition
Turkish

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