This a different take on Kurdish TV shows throughout its history and a promising one too, the idea of a modern Kurdish girl traveling through time and going back to the 1980s seems quite interesting, but also comes with a lot of responsibility considering the historical and cultural aspects of it. For example the entire series is being told on almost only two locations, the home of the modern Kurdish girl (shanya), and the house of the 1980s family, meaning We don't really see the life of a Kurdish family in 1983, or streets and bazars of old Erbil or life in Erbil's citadel before it was abandoned, the series does not show us that it just talks about it, so i think it would've been great if we actually saw how life was back then.
In terms of technical areas, such as acting. I must say I'm not really impressed, not because they're bad actors but because the director hasn't given them much about their characters and their role in the story, most of the actors don't really understand what they're doing and some of them just act poorly. But i have to give a shoutout to Danie Qadir(ruheyza), Sirwan Osman(sirwan) and Vanya Salar(shanya). Another issue is that some actors from slemani tend to speak in hawleri accent, and some actors form hawler tend to speak in slemani accent which is not quite successful because i thinks each actor should act in his own accent as long as they're not %100 fluent in other accents.
The lighting, camera movements, script and also the editing all lack cinematic aspects and are executed poorly, but i must say the the costumes and production design of 1983 were beautiful and truly depicted that time.
The poster of the series is also wrong, because the word "Diwar" is one word in kurdish, and you can't really divide it into three parts: Di W Ar It's not like United States of America (USA).
In the end i want to say that this a good step for kurdish TV Shows to improve in terms of plot and narrative, and get out of the same cycle they have been in for the last 40 or 50 years, again the problem is not with actors but rather the directors. Because here in Kurdistan we lack true cinematic storytelling and direction, but i hope with this new generation coming this would Improve too!
Dahen Dilshad 14th of April.
In terms of technical areas, such as acting. I must say I'm not really impressed, not because they're bad actors but because the director hasn't given them much about their characters and their role in the story, most of the actors don't really understand what they're doing and some of them just act poorly. But i have to give a shoutout to Danie Qadir(ruheyza), Sirwan Osman(sirwan) and Vanya Salar(shanya). Another issue is that some actors from slemani tend to speak in hawleri accent, and some actors form hawler tend to speak in slemani accent which is not quite successful because i thinks each actor should act in his own accent as long as they're not %100 fluent in other accents.
The lighting, camera movements, script and also the editing all lack cinematic aspects and are executed poorly, but i must say the the costumes and production design of 1983 were beautiful and truly depicted that time.
The poster of the series is also wrong, because the word "Diwar" is one word in kurdish, and you can't really divide it into three parts: Di W Ar It's not like United States of America (USA).
In the end i want to say that this a good step for kurdish TV Shows to improve in terms of plot and narrative, and get out of the same cycle they have been in for the last 40 or 50 years, again the problem is not with actors but rather the directors. Because here in Kurdistan we lack true cinematic storytelling and direction, but i hope with this new generation coming this would Improve too!
Dahen Dilshad 14th of April.
