Analysis of the Characterization of a “Can” (minutes 28-1.19)

This work is meant to analyse the characterisation of one of the main characters of the tv series “Erkenci Kus”, Can.

To create Can the director used mostly the showing technique, thus an indirect characterisation. Indeed only in a little bit situation someone gives a description or talks about Can, the director mostly shows the character acting in different situations and the watcher has to create his own idea of Can.

Watching just a part of the first episode the way in which Can is characterized create in me the idea of a solitary person that however loves his family too. Indeed the reader can understand, from a speech between Sanem and Cengyz and then in a dialogue between Can and his father that he’s a photographer, he stays for months in dangerous places alone and three times a year returns to the father’s agency.  The solitude in which Can lives is also connotated from another dialogue between Can and his father, that invites his son to pass more time with Polen, probably Can’s girlfriend, that he sees only three times a year.  The Dedication of Can through his father is created by the decision of the protagonist, after the praises of his father, to remain in Turkey to administrate the agency quitting his job and then by his insistence in convincing his father leave for his journey, after finding out it’s a pretext to go having a surgery.

From the way Can is characterized I Imagine him as a confused and undecided person, with inner wars created by the contrast between what he would like to do, his dreams, and what other people would like him to do.  This feeling is created in me by the gaze of Can in some situations. An example of these situations can be the scene in which Can, after kissing Sanem, embraces his girlfriend Polen, continuing reflecting with perplexity on the identity of the girl she had kissed.