Abstract:

Cinema presents the representation strategies of female characters in a different way to spectators. One of the titles that feminist film theories bring into question is the representation mechanism of female characters. While female characters are presented in mainstream cinema in such a way that they serve the patriarchal view, whereas, in the films outside the mainstream, female characters are presented with such narrative strategies that these strategies allow the breaking of the discourses of the patriarchal view. While Pelin Esmer's film is a film narrative outside the mainstream, it presents different female characters apart from the stereotyped female characters of the mainstream cinema. The attitudes of the two female characters to life and the way they experience life are presented in such a way that they make people question the discourses of the mainstream cinema.  In this context, the attitudes of female characters towards life in the film narrative, public and private spaces, the character traits they represent and their approach to the phenomenon of death will be discussed based on the article of the feminist film theorist Teresa de Lauretis entitled Rethinking Women's Cinema: Aesthetics and Feminist Theory (1985). The presentation of the death phenomenon that the story takes to the focus center is opened up for discussion with the concept of anamorphosis, which Slavoj Zizek interpreted based on Jacques Lacan. In this study, both the presentation of female characters in the narrative and the making sense of the death phenomenon by the characters are questioned with the concept of anamorphic view. In this context, the study aims to question the relationship between female characters and death with a philosophical approach and to enable the thinking of the representation strategies of characters from multiple perspectives.

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