10 Days of a Bad Man

How easy it has been for us to encounter evil in our lives? And in the battles fought for victory, which of us have managed to emerge unscathed? As the adaptation of the second book of Mehmet Eroğlu’s trilogy, ‘The 10 Days of a Good Man,’ titled ‘The 10 Days of a bad Man,’ is released on Netflix, we immerse ourselves in a universe where justice is questioned, and the concepts of good and evil are reexamined.

Centered around Istanbul, the detective film series ‘The 10 Days of a Good Man’ delves into the conflict between inherent goodness and evil in human nature. The second film in the series, ‘The 10 Days of a bad Man,’ features Nejat İşler in the lead role, with a cast including İlayda Akdoğan, İlayda Alişan, Rıza Kocaoğlu, Hazal Filiz Küçükköse and Nur Güner.

In the second film of the series, we encounter Sadık, who has lost everything, struggling in the liminal space between good and evil. As the adrenaline increases, and evil starts to creep within us, Sadık brings justice through Adil or Öcal to this senseless order. However, life has never been easy to be entirely good or entirely bad… The life based on struggle affects Sadık, leading him to search for ways out within himself. While facing dark obstacles one after another, Sadık does not abandon his essence and what he knows.

Plunged into a major depression, Sadık gradually becomes like Hamlet in ‘The 10 Days of a Bad Man,’ turning more and more into Raskolnikov. Through this tragedy, Sadık, like Hamlet, finds common ground in a world of revenge, betrayal, anger, and madness intertwined with reality. Justice is an intricate path for both Hamlet and Sadık. In a world where everyone lives in a way that influences everyone else and where deceit happens behind our backs, clinging to goodness hasn’t prevented the doors of evil from opening.

Referencing Agatha Christie, Sherlock Holmes, Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, and even the classic series Columbo of its time, ‘The 10 Days of the Bad Man’ elevates melancholy amidst the concepts of goodness, evil, reality, and truth. Yet, at the end of the road, the light never diminishes for Sadık. It continues to shine relentlessly, even when he doesn’t notice. Through characters like Sadık, who can’t let go of feelings that unify like truth, justice, and love, ’10 Days of a Bad Man’ introduces us to the question once again when the film ends: ‘What makes a person evil? Their thoughts or their actions?’

As the waters where goodness becomes increasingly blurred with evil, explore becoming a gray human, delving into the essence of concepts like goodness, evil, reality, truth, and justice in the universe of ‘0 Days of a Bad Man,’ where our playlist awaits.

Let’s reunite in “Goodness is a Social Construct,” where we meet once again with Nejat İşler, the lead actor of the film “The Good Man’s 10 Days,” as we pursue the question, “How possible is it to remain a good and virtuous person in the pursuit of justice?”, İlayda Akdoğan and İlayda Alişan join beside him on this journey as he navigates between staying loyal (Sadık) and being fair (Adil).