Who Killed The Shadows Film Analysis

The events in Who killed the shadows? takes place in Anatolia in 1330, but the movie have serious problems in terms of historical accuracy and representation. However, it is one of relatively few movies that used 14.century Anatolia (Beyliks period) as the background, and interpreted the period in a different manner from that of other historical dramas of the same period. It seems that the members of the movie crew, who were responsible for the historical search about the period, researched some historical details and characters. Despite the defects and irregularity of the movie in terms of historical accuracy, it can be claimed that the movie was successful in some ways in representing the life of the nomads and of urban population in the

Hence, we can conclude that the events in the movie should take place in 1326 or 1327. Also, the destruction of the Eshrefids by the Ilkhanids occurred in 1326, and this event is screened in the movie. In light of this information, the audience, who have the knowledge about the 14.century of Anatolia or at least know that Orhan Bey captured Bursa in 1326, can handily estimate that the plot of the movie should take place in 1326 or 1327. However, in another scene, it is stated that the year that the adventure of Karagöz and Hacivat in Bursa took place was 1330. This example represents one of the failures in the movie in terms of the historical accuracy.
The plot of the movie that took place in Bursa of 1330 roughly concurs the visitation of Ibn Battuta in Bursa and Nicaea. Therefore, the observation and remarks of Ibn Battuta provides a significant source to evaluate the representation of Bursa and of Orhan Bey in the movie in terms of the historical representation. The representation of Bursa in the movie shows similarities in a striking manner with the accounts of Ibn Battuta. He