The Philosophy of Chaos in Cinema: An Analysis on the Movie Mr. Nobody
The Philosophy of Chaos in Cinema: An Analysis on the Movie Mr. Nobody

Summary/Abstract: This study analyzes the movie Mr. Nobody (Dormael, 2009) within the framework of chaos philosophy, tragedy, and complex storytelling in cinema. The movie takes place in a science fiction universe where humankind has found immortality, in 2092. The main character of the movie, Nemo, is the only and last mortal in this universe. Mr. Nobody is a movie focusing on the different life experiences that could potentially occur, moving through the choice that the main character Nemo had to make as a result of his parents' divorce at the age of nine. Within the scope of the study, besides the philosophical concepts in the content of the movie, it was also discussed how this philosophy was experienced by the audience in a fictional and narrative form. Accordingly, philosophical concepts such as existentialism and modernism that are directly and indirectly mentioned in the film, criticism of modernism, the origins and philosophy of the chaos concept, fractal structures, and phenomena such as the butterfly effect and Lorenz Curves were handled in the context of complex storytelling, which has been used as a narrative technique in cinema since the 1990s, taking into account the editing technique of the film.

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