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This study is designed to evaluate the train journey in the film What's Useful (Pelin Red, 2017) and the city journey within the framework of the flaneus concept that represents the female look of the protagonist Leyla. The concept of Flaneur has an eril identity and is theoretized by the German literary critic Walter Benjamin, inspired by the poems of the French poet Charles Baudelaire. The concept marks the urban, intellectual, observational individual of the modernization and mass culture of the 19th century Europe. The person who travels and observes in Paris, which is the foundation of Baudelaire’s poems, generates thought from this experience in Benjamin’s theoretization. As a person who can do the critical reading of the period through the streets, the eril figure has this privilege for a long period of time. The cultural and economic transformations of the century have cleansed the city traveler’s privileges from single gender. The concept of Flaneus represents the power of the language to stimulate the atherical patterns. In many fields of art, flaneus interpretations have exceeded and multiplied this view of the eril figure with the urban and critical view that Benjamin has theoretized. The art of cinema is also suitable for multiple reading and in this regard has a dynamic that multiplies and renews itself in every view. With this point of view, in the analysis of the film, the journey and observations of the main character Leyla will be regarded as a modern flaneuse reading, the train journey will be attempted to capture how observation and observation in the crowds in the cities and metropolitan areas will reflect the spirit of the age from the eyes of a woman.