EDEBİYAT VE SİNEMADA ÜTOPYA VE DİSTOPYA

Year 2013, Volume: 1 Issue: 34, 204 - 223, 01.06.2013

Vesna Suljıc

Abstract

Sinemacılıkta ve edebiyatta bilim kurgu genellikle kıyamet sahneleriyle ya gelişen teknolojinin insanlar üzerine zararlı etkisini ya da yaşamın muhtemel başkalaşmış şekilleriyle insanoğlunun evrendeki azmanlığını öngören bir tür olarak algılanmaktadır. Teknolojinin zararlı etkisi genellikle anti-ütopik; azmanlaşma hem anti-ütopik hem de ütopik görüşleri oluşturmaktadır. Matrix’in Yapısökümü başlıklı makale, 1999 yılında Andy ve Larry Wachlowski’nin yönetmenliğini yaptığı Matrix filmi bu tür filme özellikle vurgu yapar. Bu filmin hedefi geleneksel bilim kurgu anlayışının sadece eğlendirmek gibi kısıtlı amaç için değil; aynı zamanda birçok yorumu da ihtiva etmesinde yatmaktadır. Bu çalışmada yapı sökücü metot uygulanarak filmde gösterilen ana temaların ikili zıtlıklarına odaklanılacaktır. Görsel ve dilsel malzeme yapısökücülüğe uğratılarak, tutarsızlıklar, yanlış ifadeler ve çelişkiler başka bir tartışmanın konusu olarak ortaya konacaktır. Sonuç olarak, ana metinlerde ve alt metinlerde var olan ve aynı zamanda var olmayan görsel ve dilsel unsurlar incelenecek ve karşılaştırılacaktır.

Keywords

Bilimkurgu, Ütopya, Anti-ütopya, Edebiyat, Sinema

UTOPIA AND DYSTOPIA IN LITERATURE AND CINEMA

Abstract

Science fiction in literature and cinematography has been usually perceived as a genre which either exposes the dangers of growing technology and its effects on mankind, usually in an apocalyptic setting, or which foresees an expansion of humankind into the Universe and possible encounters with other forms of life. The former usually carries a dystopian, while the latter both dystopian and, although rarely, utopian views of the future. In the article Deconstructing The Matrix, particular attention will be paid to one film of this genre, The Matrix, directed by Andy and Larry Wachlowski in 1999. The purpose of this work is to demonstrate that a perspective of the conventional perception of the genre as mostly entertaining is a limited one, and to provide arguments for multiple interpretations of the work. The work will be analyzed by applying a methodology of deconstructive analysis and will be focused in more detail into binary oppositions of the main themes presented in the film. Finally, by deconstructing the visual and linguistic material, it will be suggested how and where the inconsistencies, misstatements or contradictions open up the material for further questioning. The visual and linguistic elements which are present and also absent from the core text and the subtexts will be consequently examined and compared.

Keywords

Science Fiction, Utopia, Dystopia, Literature, Cinema

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