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MBolzan - Short Story and Differences and Similarities (Corrected)
by MBolzan - (2020-02-16)
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Can is ready to leave. By now he is almost sure she does not love him.

Sanem wouldn’t let him go otherwise. She does not believe it was not him. However, he wants to leave her one last gift in music.

A year later Sanem wrote a novel, astonished for Can’s leaving. The book was translated into many languages and had great success. Can left her and the country, and she doesn’t know if hadn't died yet, she has missed him and so did Can. She has never been able to forget him, she feels alone and she doesn’t imagine a life without him. So she had decided to call Can, but she had never got a callback. Sanem faces a difficult period, falling into depression.

Nobody knows where he is. Meanwhile, Can left by his boat and he never needed to land somewhere. During the year he travelled all over the world, but he hadn't missed Sanem. Like her, he has never been able to forget her, even if at the same time he will never forgive Sanem for not trusting him.

When Can’s father, Aziz Bey, got sick and asked his friend Mrs Remide to help him find his son, Can goes back to Istambul and he decides to find him.

Although the two guys want to escape from each other, fate would never divide them.

In a cloudy day, Can came back to Istanbul, on his yacht. The changed him, he had long curly hairs a disproportionated beard. Two guys helped him to dock. When he was getting off his yacht, he saw an old friend. They spoke about his return, where he has been and why. But it starts raining and he tries to repair himself. In that same rainy day, Sanem didn't know about Can's come back. She was signing lots of books, books that she had written. The sky got black, and it started raining cats and dogs, so they both tried to get a repair. The wind started blowing, and she decided to go to the cinema for seeing one film. Meanwhile, Can, when he was walking disorientated, saw the cinema, so decided to get into for a film.

When he had entered, he saw a girl with beautiful hair, buying the ticket for a film, he sniffed her hair but didn’t know that girl was Sanem yet.

 

DIFFERENCES

She goes to the port, probably because it reminds her to him. While Can returns to his boat where he finds Sanem's gift. Sanem decides to write, probably a letter, and insert it into a bottle that he throws into the sea, I believe in the hope that he will reach Can, who in the meantime is reading the book published and given to him by Sanem.

SIMILARITIES

Both are shocked to have seen the other and are looking for a moment to reflect, but they continue to think about each other and both end up doing something that remembers the other; Can reads the book of Sanem, while she writes him a letter

How are the two scenes different and similar at the same time?

The director builds two scenes in which the main characters are separate and distinct, but supports them in the projection.
The first scene shows Can, the man, who enters his yacht and finds a gift wrapped in elegant purple paper, discards him and abandons himself to his thoughts, while the gift wrapping falls into the water.
The second scene depicts Sanem, the girl, seated near the port intent on staring at the dark horizon, as if she were far from the present and concentrated only in her thoughts. After taking the last tablet from the bottle, she takes a piece of paper out of the bag where she writes a message, and after closing it in the bottle she throws it into the sea.

The scenes therefore have some differences, such as the place in which they are set (he on a yacht, she near the port), and this could represent the different social status to which they belong.
Despite these differences, however, they are also very similar, the director in fact narrates them in a parallel way alternating them.
Both are lonely in the night and totally absorbed in their thoughts.
They have a deep sense of loneliness on their faces and they seems to be missing someone.
The director builds the scenes at night because it is the moment of the day in which each of us finds himself reflecting with himself, the moment in which we are alone and many times a great sense of sadness and loneliness assails us.
So the director wants to connote them as two people wrapped in a great loneliness.
Both have an object in their hands which then falls into the water.
To him falls the paper in which the book was wrapped, she throws the bottle into the sea.
In this case the director wants to compare their mood to the two objects.
The man's object falls involuntarily and gently into the wind, as if to compare the feelings he has towards the girl: he falls hopelessly in love with it, but being afraid of his emotions he remains in his solitude.
Instead, the girl hurls the bottle into the sea with desolation as if to be resigned and hopes for something that she does not believe totally possible.

 

How are the two scenes different and similar at the same time?

The director builds two scenes in which the main characters are separate and distinct, but supports them in the projection.
The first scene shows Can, the man, who enters his yacht and finds a gift wrapped in elegant purple paper, discards him and abandons himself to his thoughts, while the gift wrapping falls into the water.
The second scene depicts Sanem, the girl, seated near the port intent on staring at the dark horizon, as if she were far from the present and concentrated only in her thoughts. After taking the last tablet from the bottle, she takes a piece of paper out of the bag where she writes a message, and after closing it in the bottle she throws it into the sea.

The scenes therefore have some differences, such as the place in which they are set (he on a yacht, she near the port), and this could represent the different social status to which they belong.
Despite these differences, however, they are also very similar, the director in fact narrates them in a parallel way alternating them.
Both are lonely in the night and totally absorbed in their thoughts.
They have a deep sense of loneliness on their faces and they seems to be missing someone.
The director builds the scenes at night because it is the moment of the day in which each of us finds himself reflecting with himself, the moment in which we are alone and many times a great sense of sadness and loneliness assails us.
So the director wants to connote them as two people wrapped in a great loneliness.
Both have an object in their hands which then falls into the water.
To him falls the paper in which the book was wrapped, she throws the bottle into the sea.
In this case the director wants to compare their mood to the two objects.
The man's object falls involuntarily and gently into the wind, as if to compare the feelings he has towards the girl: he falls hopelessly in love with it, but being afraid of his emotions he remains in his solitude.
Instead, the girl hurls the bottle into the sea with desolation as if to be resigned and hopes for something that she does not believe totally possible.