You are here:

A Good Fellow

Name: A Good Fellow
Director: Ayhan Sonyürek
Released: 2014
Duration: 117 min

Representation Score

4.4/10

Fair

2014

Director

Ayhan Sonyürek

Runtime

117 minutes

Average Rating

No ratings yet

New Showbiz Analysis

A Good Fellow is a character-driven social study that focuses on peripheral identities. Following Mızrap on a cross-country trip, the film engages with the diverse cultural landscape of Turkey's provinces. The film's strength lies in its commitment to social realism, placing a protagonist outside the mainstream in contact with various societal outliers. However, the representation is uneven, with traditional patriarchal conflicts dominating the narrative and a lack of visible LGBTQ+ or disability-focused characters.

Watch this, not that →

Category Breakdown

Does A Good Fellow have LGBTQ+ representation?

Fair

The film does not include explicit representations of LGBTQ+ characters or non-straight relationships. The narrative emphasizes traditional social structures.

How does A Good Fellow portray gender?

Fair

The story revolves around a patriarchal conflict between a father and his son. Women are not shown taking leading roles or challenging gender hierarchies.

How racially and ethnically diverse is A Good Fellow?

Good

The journey through Antakya and Mersin highlights Turkey's diverse ethnic communities. The plot intentionally includes individuals from underrepresented groups.

How does A Good Fellow represent religion and culture?

Fair

The film critiques traditional family structures and the sanctity of the home. It uses a journey to explore systemic outsiders through a lens of social realism.

Does A Good Fellow include disability representation?

Minimal

There is no specific mention of characters with physical or neurodivergent disabilities in the narrative.

Present on Screen

The setting provides a meaningful encounter with diverse ethnic and cultural perspectives across Turkey.
The narrative structure explores the fringes of society by focusing on underrepresented groups.
The film offers a critique of traditional domestic and familial structures.

Limited or Absent

The film lacks visible representation of LGBTQ+ identities or non-straight narratives.
Women are not shown taking leading roles or challenging gender hierarchies.
There is no evidence of characters representing physical or neurodivergent disabilities.

Official Synopsis

Mızrap is a 40-year old man who is deemed "no good". He lives in a small town in the province of Antakya. His father throws him out as a bluff, while scolding him, after Mizrap loses his job. But Mizrap, stung by his father's words, calls him on his bluff and leaves his father, mother, sister and niece to go on a cross-country trip to stay with his old army buddy Salim, who lives in a village near Mersin. Across the hard way he meets a number of representatives of marginalized groups in Turkish society.

How are these scores produced? →