The Thin Line Between Opportunity and Crisis: Tayfun Pirselimoğlu’s Sideway Film In The Context Of Nietzschean Superman Idea Cover Image

Kriz ve Fırsat Arasındaki İnce Çizgi: Nietzsche’nin Üstinsan Düşüncesi Bağlamında Tayfun Pirselimoğlu’nun Yol Kenarı Filmi
The Thin Line Between Opportunity and Crisis: Tayfun Pirselimoğlu’s Sideway Film In The Context Of Nietzschean Superman Idea

Author(s): Ulaş Işıklar
Subject(s): Philosophical Traditions, Epistemology, 19th Century Philosophy, Existentialism, Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Serdar Öztürk
Keywords: The idea of Nietzschean superman; Nihilism; New Turkish cinema; Auteur cinema; The cinema of Tayfun Pirselimoğlu;

Summary/Abstract: Nihilism, that can be described as a problematic consequence of interactions formed with world and life by individual, is a concept which generally connotes the crisis created by the absence of meaning and values. According to Nietzsche, who uses negative paradigm indicated by this concept as base of critical approach in his theory, a human being which has no value and meaning will be able to reach a new level of moral and consciousness if and only to experience the crisis in question in first place and turn it into a opportunity immediately after. The one and only individuality that can achieve this is the superman who has the will to reveal a moral composed totally new system of values after turn the crisis into a opportunity. Various projections of nihilism which is able to come in view in daily lives of whole societies occur in a great deal of works of art. Especially, many works of art in literature and cinema, representations of individual which render in this context can be observed. One of the points these representations can be seen is that there are some ‘New Turkish Cinema’ films have been emerged in mid of nineties in Turkey. This tendency is clearly seen in Tayfun Pirselimoğlu’s film Sideway.

  • Issue Year: 7/2022
  • Issue No: 13
  • Page Range: 126-141
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Turkish