00:00You need to listen to the true story of Fatma Gold before watching the DZ,
00:07the big Turkish soap about a humble young woman who, after being raped by a group of friends,
00:14is abandoned by her fiancé and forced into marriage with one of the aggressors to cleanse
00:19her honor. Is it a great soap story? Yes. Watch it if you don't have triggers. Even more than once,
00:27because that way you can get several different perspectives. But if the romanticization of
00:32Karim already bothered me, when I found out about the real story from the book, the shock was huge.
00:39Well, the name of the original story was already quite clear. What is Fatma Gold's fault? It was
00:47the cry that the protagonist was not to blame. The book was also a social critique of Turkey's laws,
00:53which didn't help victims much in these cases. Around the mid-1970s, the author Vedat Turkali
01:01heard the story and wrote it. A filmmaker friend wanted to make a movie, but the censors banned it.
01:07It was necessary to soften the drama of the young woman who suffered a gang rape,
01:12so as not to shock the public too much. In 1986, the film came out, but it didn't even seem
01:19like
01:19it had been romanticized, since the poster looks more like that old cannibal movie whose name I forgot.
01:26The IMDB synopsis says,
01:29Fatma Gold is a young peasant girl. One day, four men, among them three sons of rich families,
01:36killed her. The girl has no one in the world except her older brother with intellectual disabilities.
01:42But to protect him, the state arrests the culprits and puts them in prison. The families of the rich young
01:48men find a single solution to deceive the poor Bai. They propose that he marry Fatma Gold for five
01:55years. After that period, they will divorce immediately, they promise. And the events unfold from there.
02:04But the real story that the author heard and wrote was this one. Fatma Gold was violated by a group
02:11of
02:11four friends. The only person she had in the world was a brother with mental problems. The families of
02:18the three friends who were rich got together, and to cover up the case, decided that the poor friend
02:24would cleanse the peasant girl's honor by marrying her. The law stipulated that if the aggressor married
02:33the victim, he would get a reduced sentence. That's why the deal was that Karim would take the blame alone,
02:40remaining married to Fatma Gold for one year. She tries to accept the new life as a wife, but she
02:47can't be happy. Karim starts becoming more and more violent, beats Fatma Gold, and accuses her of being
02:54the one to blame for the rape. Now you can understand the original title even better, right? In the book,
03:01Fatma Gold doesn't give in because she fell in love, but because she had no choice. When she gets pregnant,
03:07Karim says he doesn't want to have a child with a prostitute, and beats her until she loses the baby.
03:14Of course, that story wasn't going to become a soap opera, right? If it couldn't even become a movie.
03:20Well, in the fiction from Deezyland, there were only three of the rapist friends, since they needed to
03:27turn one of them into a romantic hero. To make it a bit more palatable, they made it so that
03:33Karim was too
03:34drunk to take part in the act. But he didn't remember anything. He was so drunk. Fatma Gold had her
03:40eyes blindfolded, so she also didn't know that Karim was innocent. Since he was the only poor one in the
03:48group of friends, he was coerced into marrying Fatma Gold. That's the faithful part. But the faithful part
03:54doesn't last long, because then it arrives. Love. Love conquers all, doesn't it? And maybe from that
04:02idea the Brazilian title was born, Fatma Gold, The Power of Love. It also aired on several channels
04:09and streamings, if I'm not mistaken, with that same distorted title they invented here in Brazil.
04:16Notice that the name of the original work, which was a cry of protest to say that the victim was
04:21not to blame, was completely lost. At least the Turkish production kept the original title,
04:28and also fulfilled its social role by exposing all the cruelty suffered by the heroine. The Spanish
04:35adaptation of the title also had the good sense to keep the name Que Culpa Tiene Fatma Gold. But it's
04:42strange to think that a romance was born from a story like this, right? I still think it's a great
04:48Deezy, but I keep wondering if the poor Fatma Gold of the story the author heard really existed,
04:54and if she ever got to see the romanticization of her personal drama on the screens, without
05:00receiving any glory for all the success that the adapters of her personal drama managed to achieve.
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