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SNardella - Last episode's characterisation - 18/02/2020
by SNardella - (2020-02-18)
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This episode takes place at Sanem’s house. It opens with a Sanem who comes to the forefront. She is praparing his fragrance/profume. Immediately after  there is a shift from Sanem to Can. He is running down the stairs and when he sees Sanem, he stops and calls her name. When she hears his voice, she immediatly recognises it . So she stops too, as if she were frozen. They both keep on doing what they were doing. The scene changes from stillness to dynamism

He moves close to her, he watches what she is doing carefully: the director focusses on her profume. Afterwards, he says something; his eyes look lost and they suggest a sense of malencony and sadness. It is as if he were resigned because she seems not to listen to what he is saying. He continues speaking and even if the watcher doesn’t understand what he is saying. He probably understands it is about the profume she is praparing: Can's body language adds to meaning. Meanwhile Can is talking to Sanem he  points to a little bottle of profume on the table. On  his asking, Sanem answer only with her body language and namely moving her head. He goes closer one more time, and takes the bottle. She looks pensive and distant from reality: she cannot even look into his eyes.

He says something but she doesn't answer and that's why he  immediatly goes away. Maybe she has hurt him. Can's look seems lost now. You can understand that se has said something that might have seemed out of place, improper for his feelings. Indeed, the soundtrack changes into a heavy almost tragic one that convey's Can's suffering . She does not show immediate reaction, maybe  beacuse she wants to persuade him she is strong and self-assured, but on a second thought she remembers all the sharp and cold words she had addressed him in their latest encounters that come to the watcher through quick flashbacks. She suddenly changes her opinion and runs after  Can, maybe beacuse she wants to stop him. Even her look changes: now she seem to be worried about something: maybe she regrets what she has been telling him so far and understand she canno give him up on him.

The ladscape changes, too. The camera shifts from Sanem’s house, to a nearby pierYou can  see  Can leaving on his boat, and after a few seconds Sanem on the same pier.  Uunfortunately she has come too late. Both characters show something: he has got her kerchief in his hands while she is touching the ring she was given by him. Touch becomes therefore the point of the two lovers' bond. The director uses a parallel frame to convey the nature of their true feelings. Later you can see Can opening her novel “The phoenix”, and starting reading it again. The director uses an echo effect to allow  the watcher listening to Sanem's novel words. Meanwhile Sanem’s leaving her. But all at onc he stops reading. He seems to be angry and impatient: he stands up and throws something into the sea. The final scene conveys the figure of a lost Canin the middle of a vast sea.