"BEKLEME ODASI incorporates several stylistic devices characteristic of Demirkubuz's work; the frequent use of extended fades to black; the superimposition of prison images (window bars, for example) on the characters' faces or at the back of the screen; and shots of Ahmet traveling in his cars that focus on his expressionless side profile or show him from the back looking out of the windscreen at an apparently endless urban road"