Lanthimos’un Kutsal Geyiğin Ölümü (The Killing of a Sacred Deer, 2017) Filminde Moderniteden Postmoderniteye Düşüncenin Dönüşümünün İzini Sürmek
Tracing The Transformation of Thought From Modernity to Postmodernity in Lanthimos's Film The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)

Summary/Abstract: The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017) which was directed by Yorgos Lanthimos is about a surgeon who lives a life shaped by scientific rules, his family's desperation over the spell of a 16-yearold teenager and their struggle between rational reason and metaphysical ambiguity. The characters' robotic dialogues, their indifference to the outcomes of everyday life which are specific to humans, and their acts of rational mind rather than intuition, show that the rational mind prevails in this dystopian world created by Lanthimos. However, the characters ' motor-sense mechanisms are disrupted by the penetration of magic into their worlds, and they go on the path of finding the truth by using their intuition. In this context, the film highlights the triumph of the intuitive against rational reason. Rationality, as one of the most important preconditions of Enlightenment thought towards the ideal of creating a new society, was firmly committed to the adoption of a system of thought based on the revulsion against traditionalism and the reliability of scientific knowledge. In contrast, postmodern thought, supported by poststructuralist theory, questions truth and knowledge and considers them unattainable on a slippery ground. While Modern Thought has the power to build individuals as social subjects by bringing the rational mind into circulation, postmodern thought highlights the individual's spiritual presence and gives it dominance. In this case, knowledge based on authority in the modern period is transformed into knowledge based on anarchy, which is pre-determined, pluralistic and interpreted in postmodernity. The basis of this dichotomy can be seen in Kant's positioning of human knowledge against empirical reality in understanding phenomena, and in Bergson's intelligence-intuition dichotomy. The aim of this study is to examine the change of understanding of knowledge and truth from modernity to postmodernity and the images of such a transformation from rational mind to intuitive thinking in cinema. To this end, Yorgos Lanthimos's film The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017) will be examined in the context of a conflict between rational thinking and intuitive thinking.

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