7.6
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Thriller, Drama • 2025 • 115 min
The Things You Kill (2025)
The Things You Kill (2025)
Overview
The Things You Kill is a 2025 Turkish-language mystery thriller directed by Alireza Khatami. Ekin Koç stars as university professor Ali, who suspects foul play in his ailing mother's death and enlists his enigmatic gardener for vengeance. Hazar Ergüçlü plays Ali's wife. An international co-production blending psychological drama and surreal elements.
Starring Cast
Ekin Koç • Ercan Kesal • Hazar Ergüçlü
Where to watch
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Progressive
Political: Leans Left
Diversity: High
Family Values: Leans Progressive
Viewer Rating
7.6
Overview
The Things You Kill is a 2025 Turkish-language mystery thriller directed by Alireza Khatami. Ekin Koç stars as university professor Ali, who suspects foul play in his ailing mother's death and enlists his enigmatic gardener for vengeance. Hazar Ergüçlü plays Ali's wife. An international co-production blending psychological drama and surreal elements.
Starring Cast
Ekin Koç • Ercan Kesal • Hazar Ergüçlü
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Progressive
Primary
Political: Leans Left
Confidence: High
The film's core examination of toxic masculinity and internalized violence in patriarchal structures drives its alignment with progressive gender critiques. This thematic focus on deconstructing harmful traditions determines the left-leaning orientation without overt ideological preaching.
Diversity: High
Confidence: High
The film portrays patriarchal structures as perpetuating cycles of male violence and emotional suppression across generations, framing traditional male authority as corrosive and harmful within family and societal contexts.
Secondary
Family Values: Leans Progressive
Confidence: High
Patriarchal dominance erodes familial bonds in a surreal descent into inherited violence and emasculated rage, incisive form underscoring the critique of rigid gender roles and parental legacies.
LGBTQ: N/A
Confidence: High
The film features no LGBTQ+ characters or themes, focusing instead on patriarchal abuse, toxic masculinity, and identity fragmentation within a heterosexual family dynamic.
Trans: N/A
Confidence: Low
The film offers no depiction of transsexual characters or themes. Its story examines a male protagonist's psychological unraveling amid patriarchal pressures and familial betrayal, featuring exclusively cisgender figures in roles like professor, wife, father, and gardener.
Female Combat: N/R
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Gender Swap: No
Confidence: Low
The Things You Kill presents original characters in a new story without adaptations, biopics, or reboots, featuring no instances where canonical genders are altered.
Race Swap: No
Confidence: Medium
The Things You Kill is an original Turkish mystery film with no prior source material, historical figures, or legacy characters establishing canonical races, resulting in no race swaps.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
6.5
6.5
Critic Ratings
9.3
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