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A critique of everyday life through Chungking Express and a case study on İstanbul
(İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi, 2007) Üçoluk, Ece; Temur, Başak Doğa
Mainly starting with the industrial revolution the world evolved into a modified epoch where everyday life has gone through thorough changes and gained vital importance in social sciences. Especially in our era, where globalization standardizing everyday life in all over the world molding it into sameness, the theory of everyday life has become a key subject that could unveil the actuality it conceals under the curtain of the mundane. This study sets out to examine, analyze and criticize the concept of `everyday life? first by theoretically and secondly by applying to three films, which are The Truman Show (Peter Weir, 1998), To Die (or Not) (Ventura Pons, 2000) and especially Chungking Express (Wong Kar-Wai, 1994). Finally, a short film, Jigsaw Puzzle, has been produced in order to complement the everyday life duality with respect to what Wong Kar-Wai puts in Chungking Express. The rationale behind this study is to raise an awareness towards the obscure concept of everyday life which conceals artifical manipulation under its common facets