In Istanbul, a magnificent and magnificent city like a crown jewel, in addition to paying attention to the local customs, perhaps the most important thing is to learn to deal with cats walking around the city-in fact, although there is no shortage of such learning opportunities, every Sub-cat owners appear in unexpected ways in unexpected places, and for patients with advanced cat addiction like me, they will still be as ecstatic as they have found money. If it happened that the master was in a good mood and he was willing to give his face to social, then he would be so excited that his personality splits immediately. One of me was so cute that I was foaming on the spot and fell to the ground, while the other one had to force my hands to be calm. Strive for the opportunity to be in the same frame as the master. As a documentary, the most fascinating thing about "Kedi" is that it records corners that we cannot measure with our footsteps due to the limitations of our identity as tourists. From a perspective parallel to cats, it slowly outlines the story of cats, people, and cities. But just like the "intermediate state" of the city of Istanbul: located between Europe and Asia, and influenced by Catholicism and Islam at the same time, the daily life of cats in the city is also between the wild and domesticated states. An uncle in Istanbul once told me: "We like to keep pets outdoors." At that time, I was quite puzzled by this statement, but "Kedi" was a perfect footnote to this sentence. It used a lot of space to show the citizens facing the street. The care of cats, whether building shacks, feeding them regularly, or even seeking medical advice, is more of a two-way choice that makes citizens and street cats feel comfortable instead of treating them as a blessing to street cats. . People and cats in the "intermediate state" have an equal relationship of companionship. Remove religious traditions and functional factors such as capturing mice. In the stories told in "Kedi", cats more often act as the spiritual guardian of people. Street life endows them with diverse and distinctive personalities. They are like a refractor. Every cat lover can see themselves from the cat, and then continue to reflect and rebuild their relationship with the cat and the world. The homework of dealing with cats, in the final analysis, is to teach humans how to get along with themselves. A citizen interviewed in "Kedi" said: "Cats know that humans are the middlemen of God's will. Unlike dogs, they are not grateful, but see more thoroughly." But I think this sentence is true even if the reverse is true. For those who have been traumatized but have been healed by getting along with cats and gained the ability to rebuild themselves, are cats not a messenger of God's will? "Kedi" made me recapitulate the images I left in Istanbul, and the fantastic journey that street cats and me had crossed. I ran into a philosopher who was thinking about cats on a railing in the Museum of Innocence, in Hagia Sophia. The high priest who paid homage to Shi Shiran was touched by a gray-haired child in the garden of the Archaeological Museum, and was robbed by several brutal road tyrants in a street restaurant. "Kedi" once again showed me Istanbul's unique understanding of cats. After all, "Without a cat, Istanbul will lose a part of its soul."
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