Malabou’nun Plastisite ve Yeni Yaralılar Yaklaşımı Bağlamında The Father Filmi
The Father Movie in the Context of Malabou’s Plasticity and The New Wounded Approach

Summary/Abstract: This study investigates The Father (2021) movie within the focus of the contemporary neurophilosopher Catherine Malabou’s “plasticity” concept. The main character Anthony of The Father movie, which is about the relationship of an Alzheimer’s patient in need of nursing care and his daughter, in the course of providing the necessary nursing care service, is analyzed in this study within the frame of “the new wounded” approach, a term developed for people who have certain brain pathology where Malabou argues that it emerges as a result of plasticity’s disruptive characteristics. In this study, The Father movie, which takes the viewer into the character’s mind through the means of cinema, is analyzed in terms of its contributions to the philosophy of film in view of embodying philosophical propositions. Furthermore, it is established that the movie enables the viewer to experience the phenomenal experiences of an Alzheimer’s patient and, according to Malabou, thus enables the viewer to think and encounter the case of the new wounded which is “unthinkable and unrepresentable”. Moreover, it is ascertained that the movie’s authentic style, through its sense of experience on the viewers, holds great potential in turning them to “plastic viewers” in Malabouien terms. Accordingly, inspiring from Malabou, the terms “elastic viewer” and “plastic viewer” are introduced and the differences between them are underlined.

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