George Miller is known for the 'Mad Max' franchise but his whimsical, fantastical side deserves respect, too.
But if these moments can be dismissed as some sort of weird lucid dream, what comes next cannot. When she buys an old bottle from the back of an Istanbul shop and takes it to her hotel, she makes a discovery while cleaning it. A djinn -- an immortal spirit in Arabic mythology -- appears, though those in the West might call him a genie.
On the other hand, he needs her to make a wish or else he's doomed to be trapped in a netherworld or in a bottle, as he has been for much of the last 3000 years. So the film is largely an intellectual parry between the two of them about life, choice, love and happiness. While the end of the film doesn't hold up as well as the beginning and middle, it nevertheless succeeds as a unique, modern-day fable about two lonely people -- or, one person and one djinn. As it toggles between fantasy and romance,"Three Thousand Years" never feels like formula.
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