Photo: Bartosz Świniarski Iranian-American director Alireza Khatami’s brooding thriller The Things You Kill , playing in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at Sundance, takes place in and around an unnamed city in Turkey, so the temptation might be great to view the film in a sociocultural context — especially as it tackles issues of patriarchy, tradition, repression. That wouldn’t be wrong, exactly. But with its overtones of Kafka, Dostoevsky, Lynch, and Hitchcock, the film could take place