A Lonely Girl in the Streets of Uncanny: Vigilantist Nature of the Death

Abstract

In this study, within the scope of Ana Lily Amirpour’s movie A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014), the traces and reflections of the elements in the periphery of “death” and “uncanny” are searched on the large scale characterization of noir and post-apocalyptic cinema. The term “uncanny” which is in time evolved into the meaning “the place, object or feeling was formerly safe, but now becomes dangerous” with referance to Freud and “vigilantism” means “to take justice into your own hands, where justice does not exist” are used as a guide. Contextual pattern is, insecure relationship of two cities and communities in conflict with each others in a fiction without temporality and as a result of this, protagonists’ try for a new pursuit. In the narrative, which culture of fear and uneasiness rule over, the director makes an effort to secure the justice featuring the woman in male-dominant societies and methodologically uses the inner duality of good-bad (evil).