Abstract:

The history of humanity consists of continuous fights for establishing hegemony. Practices of struggle that evolve around the axis of the volition to establish hegemony within social life are mainly shaped over the distinction of us versus them. In the simplest sense, those included in “us” are considered “good”, and those outside “us” are considered “bad”. In this context, definitions made over us and them transform otherness into a problem, and the stigma of being other gives rise to practices of marginalization. In this sense, approaches around otherness and marginalization lead to a problematic interaction between different social fractions, and this issue in question curbs the opportunities of establishing healthy communication. In this situation, individuals belonging to different social groups, classes and fractions who are under the influence of marginalizing thoughts are drifted towards existential crises by not being able to establish healthy social relationships. Several films that describe the position of the individual and their conflicts with the society in the context of the aforementioned problems are being made. Thus, it carries important in terms of comprehending the problem to understand films that thematize the effects of marginalization practices on the individual. In this study, the film named Çoğunluk (2010) [Majority], which was written and directed by Seren Yüce, was subjected to a descriptive analysis with a qualitative approach with the purpose of understanding the existential crisis created on the individual by practices of marginalization that are established on the axes of culture and identity.

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