HUMAN AND VAMPIRE: SPINOZIST REPRESENTATION OF BEING IN FILM ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE

American director Jim Jarmusch, who shot his first significant film in 1980, is a prominent name in destroying the logic of film that was identified with Hollywood and the emergence of modern independent cinema. This study that addresses Only Lovers Left Alive, among the important films of Jarmusch that displaced usual conceptions in cinema, focuses on “human being”. According to the Western understanding, human being, originating from Antiquity and gaining value with the Renaissance and the Enlightenment Period, is a free individual who uses his/her own mind and makes his/her own decisions. Humans distinguish themselves from the rest of other living beings, and they declare their dominance. The modern world that they have created is the most developed and civilized one among those throughout the history. While the human is aggrandized in this way in the intellectual field, upon looking at the real life, it is observed that wars, hunger and nomadic life are becoming widespread. The first question that comes to mind in this case is as follows: whether human being is actually a “dominant” creature? This study focuses on Jarmusch’s film that has opened the traditional human being up for discussion with the idea of “vampire” together with the views of the famous thinker Benedictus Spinoza on being and human being. It shows how this film that has transformed the idea of vampire created by humans according to themselves centring around their own existence has rebuilt the human perception in parallel to the thoughts of Spinoza