Yaban: A Brutal Privilege Reckoning

You are the villain in your own country's history. That is the brutal realization at the

heart of the Turkish classic Yaban. An educated officer loses his arm fighting for his nation and

retreats to a remote village, expecting to be embraced as a hero. Instead,

the locals treat him like a total alien, calling him The Stranger.

He is shocked by their poverty and ignorance, but then the guilt hits.

He realizes the elite class didn't save these people; they abandoned them for centuries.

It is a savage reality check on privilege that still hurts today.