So, finally, I had my hands to see the film “Turks fruit”, shot by Paul Verhoeven (Paul Verhoeven) based on the book of the same name by Jan Volkers in 1973. This film is considered one of the most successful Dutch films, it was nominated for an Oscar as best film in a foreign language.
Watch out, spoilers!
Young sculptor Eric Wonck
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So, finally, I had my hands to see the film “Turks fruit”, shot by Paul Verhoeven (Paul Verhoeven) based on the book of the same name by Jan Volkers in 1973. This film is considered one of the most successful Dutch films, it was nominated for an Oscar as best film in a foreign language.
Watch out, spoilers!
Young sculptor Eric Wonck (Rutger Hauer) accidentally meets Olga Stacks (Monique van de Wen) when she picks him up on the road where he unsuccessfully tries to stop the car. Passion flares up between them, but soon they get into a road accident, after which Eric tries to meet Olga, but her mother does not let him near her, but soon a father appears, whose attitude towards Eric is quite positive, because he loves his daughter and understands her choice, after a while they will get married. Eric continues to work, using his wife as a model, and quite successfully at first. Olga's father dies, his mother tries to transfer the business (they had a store) to Eric, but he does not want to hear about it. Soon, however, Olga begins to tire of the irrepressible sexual energy of her husband, her fervor was short, she cheats on him, and then completely leaves him when he beats her for it. He is terribly affected by her departure, which is expressed in the fact that he completely descends, the house is mud and chaos, and he drags one casual acquaintance after another to have sex with them. One morning he wakes up after he had nightmares in which he kills first his ex-wife with a lover, then someone else, after thinking, he restores relative order in the apartment and begins to do something - makes absolutely terrible products for the public, in which he uses half-burnt umbilicals, which he picks up in the dump. One day Olga comes to him to pick up her belongings, because she found a groom and goes to America. One day in the store he meets again with Olga, she looks rather strange and says rather strange things, apparently, America influenced her so much, she invites him to drink coffee. In the cafe, she also behaves strangely, which alarms Eric, everything becomes clear after a while, when she loses consciousness, and then it turns out that she has a malignant brain tumor. The operation does not bring much relief. Why rahat-lukum? It is Eric who brings Olga to the hospital a box of rickat-lukum, which she greedily eats, after a while she dies.
Honestly, I didn’t enjoy watching this movie, despite Rutger Hauer, who I always sympathized with. The film is replete with very explicit sexual scenes, nothing else, the characters seem not able to engage, it seems that all their love is sex, a lot of excessive naturalism not only in terms but also in scenes, although sometimes in Eric wake up and some other qualities - he nurses a seagull with a damaged wing, which he picked up on the beach, and lets her go. And the last days of Olga’s life he spends at her bedside in the hospital, taking care of her, brings her a wig, again rickat-lukum.
So I watched the movie, but I can’t say I liked it very much.