With thousands of jobs being just variations on the assembly lines of the Industrial Revolution, Kenan’s job might top the list with its painfully boring repetitive nature and lack of breathing space. Kenan, the leading character in Tolga Karaçelik’s debut feature Gişe Memuru (Toll Booth), is a clerk in a tollbooth connecting the endless highways spread throughout Turkey. Day in and day out, his job is to collect the money from the vehicles and raise the guard fence, letting cars and trucks continue along their route. Serkan Ercan’s Kenan is a character who keeps his frustration under a composed expression and a poised attitude. With a permanent frown upon his face, he never smiles. But what tollbooth worker smiles? As he drops in the tollbooth plaza at the start and end of his shift, he has minimal exchanges with his colleagues.
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