Film Anlatısında Gülerken Düşünmek
Thinking While Laughing in Film Narrative

Summary/Abstract: Laughing is one of the oldest and most thought-provoking acts of human history, and it is an act that puts the realities of humanity on their faces. Many thinkers who think about laughter have formulated the meanings and signs that penetrate into laughter with various theories. Social theory is one of the theories of laughter that takes humanity on a journey of thought with the philosophy of Henri Bergson that marks the questioning of the act of laughter. Bergson, with social theory, presents the given and nonverbal codes of the society to the society, while pointing out the male domination within these codes, while emphasizing the suggestive aspect of laughter on the other hand. The film Aile Arası (Ozan Açıktan, 2017) is a narrative that reminds the rules of the male-dominated order, while making it laugh as a narrative that criticizes this order, and opens up areas of questioning. In the narrative of the film, the audience, who can trace the traces of happiness, sadness, goodness, and evil, tries to feel many emotions at the same time as if they are in a carnivalesque area, while also discussing the indicators of the masculine order in their minds. At this point, some places in the film narrative reveal the rules of social order that social theory looks critically at. The study opens a discussion on the patriarchal discourses of the social order together with the film narrative character, within the framework of Bergson’s detailed social theory of laughter and based on the content of the concept of carnivalesque.

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