Radyo, Televizyon ve Sinema Bölümü / Department of Radio, Cinema and Television

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    Toplumsal Değişimin Aynasındaki Çatlak: Elena
    (2018-12) Taş Öz, Perihan; 111982
    This study aims to analyze one of Russia’s most important young filmmaker, Andrey Petrovich Zvyagintsev’s film Elena in light of how social change effects the concepts of morality and conscience. Using sociological analysis as a methodology, this study will map out how the social changes taking place during the time period of the film are symbolically represented in characters and their stories. The characters in the film, as a mother and spouse, Elena particularly, question the concepts of conscience and morality in a striking manner through the mandatory relationships they have to uphold, in which the problems of social change are reflected. Moral philosophy has been discussed from Plato to Aristotle; from Spinoza to Kant. Amongst these discussion, the most gripping arguments have been put forth by Friedrich Nietzsche. Nietzsche underlines a morality of strength, freeing humans from a false consciousness about morality. Nietzsche’s ideas will be critically undertaken in relation to Elena in order to seek answers to how humans, expected to be a moral subject, negotiate conscience in a rapidly changing social structure. In his previous films Vozvrashchenie and Izgnanie, Zvyagintsev has successfully focused on human stories and their social contexts. In his latest, the filmmaker approaches the effects of globalization on individuals and their relationships, in a metaphoric and striking manner. His film does not only limit itself to the context of Russia, but pertains to the whole world. In this sense, it is suggested that the film holds a universal quality.