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- 2019
The Loss of Sincerity and the Delusions of Innocence in Yavuz Turgul’s Cinema in the Sample of “Muhsin Bey” and “Yol Ayr?m?”Keywords: Toplumsal D?nü?üm,Zamana Direnme,Nostalji Abstract: The stories about the neighborhood, which are described in many of the Ye?il?am films, including people who share poverty, sadness, joy, hope, find little space on the screen after 1980’s. The narratives of solidarity, innocence, and sincerity, which are the main themes of these films, become elements of a nostalgic imagination of the past after the 1980’s. This melancholic atmosphere is one of the characteristics that defines Yavuz Turgul’s cinema which is the subject of this study. Within the scope of such an understanding of cinema fed by the social transformations and the director’s own personal history, the struggles of the individuals who are the bearers of the values of the past are discussed to resist the pessimistic, individualist and degenerated time. The themes of innocence, sincerity, loyalty and solidarity are the elements of questioning “the spirit of time” in these films. In this study, Turgul’s Muhsin Bey (1987) and Yol Ayr?m? (2017) films are analysed in relation to their social context. The director’s approach about the topic is examined in these two films focusing on the problems of sincerity and innocence. Although these films were produced in different times, they were preferred because of the thought of completing each other in terms of sincerity discussion. These films were analyzed by taking into account the characteristics of stories and characters, in retalion with sociological context
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