Abstract:

Loneliness is an emotional state that can occur anytime and anywhere since the existence of humanity. Although this feeling is known by everyone, of course, it can be experienced in different ways according to the characteristics of each individual's own life form. Lonely individuals may develop this feeling when they are unable to establish a satisfactory connection with others or are dissatisfied with their own position, and this is often not directly related to the actual number of people around them. Despite all this, it is not correct to say that being alone is essentially a positive or negative situation. What is important here is how the person is alone, how he/she experiences loneliness and how he/she manages this feeling. The study aims to question how the feeling of loneliness, which has representations in the modern world and is a subjective phenomenon, is constructed in cinema. It is thought that the universe of cinema has an important effect on conveying different forms of loneliness through characters and understanding the essence of loneliness. For this reason, the movie Azizler (2021), which stands out with the theme of loneliness, was chosen as a sample and analyzed with the critical film analysis method. Thus, the ways in which the three main characters in the movie experience the feeling of loneliness were examined, and the transfer of different states of loneliness to the audience through the characters was discussed.

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