Fatih Akin’s Modern Tragedy of Deprivation: Aus Dem Nichts (In The Fade)

Year 2024, Volume: 9 Issue: 16, 142 - 158, 30.06.2024

Deniz Kurtyılmaz

https://doi.org/10.55004/tykhe.1413651

Abstract

Fatih Akın's cinema takes a clear political stance on the experience of being the other, especially since the director himself, as an immigrant, has experienced being a stranger first-hand. Aus Dem Nichts (Parampararça), which is discussed in this article, also stands out as a production about the view of the other. The film's story draws heavily on real events and opens up Germany's long criminal file on xenophobia for discussion. However, Akin does not intend to condemn Germany alone and emphasizes that xenophobia is fundamentally a matter of a lack of empathy. Akın also manages to create a modern tragedy through a narrative in which the issue of deprivation is central. In other words, Akin raises questions about the moral dilemmas of a human being by extending the concept of absence to deprivation. In this article, Aus Dem Nichts is analyzed through the method of discourse analysis. When the narrative of the film is analyzed from a philosophical perspective, it is seen that Fatih Akın successfully presents a modern tragedy through 3 main axes emphasizing different types of deprivation.

Keywords

Fatih Akın, Aus dem Nichts, Paramparça, Yoksunluk, Yabancı Düşmanlığı

Fatih Akin’s Modern Tragedy of Deprivation: Aus Dem Nichts (In The Fade)

Abstract

Fatih Akin's cinema takes a clear political stance on the experience of being the other, especially since the director himself, as an immigrant, has experienced it first-hand. Aus Dem Nichts (In The Fade), which is the subject of this article, stands out as a production with a sober discourse on the view of the other. The film's story draws heavily on real events and opens up Germany's long criminal file on xenophobia for discussion. However, Akin also emphasizes that xenophobia is fundamentally about the absence of empathy. In other words, the director goes beyond making a stereotypical movie by considering this absence as not only political but also anthropological. Violence against foreigners, far from being a political choice, is about an indifference to the presence of another, and is much more widespread than we realize. In this article, Aus Dem Nichts is analyzed in the context of mise-en-scene criticism. A philosophical deconstruction of the film's narrative and style reveals that Akin has successfully presented a modern tragedy of deprivation.

Keywords

Fatih Akin, Aus dem Nichts, In the Fade, Deprivation, Xenophobia

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