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the penalty for what she did, Dahlia suffers from the psychological damage what she lived in
the past. Dahlia is a character who cannot make sense why her mother left her when she was a
little girl but trying to gloss over them instead of trying to find answers. Dahlia seeks to
narcotize and silence the call her subconscious makes through dreams. Dahlia is a little girl
who was abandoned by her mother, Eda is like the mother abandoning. The lives of these two
women resemble to each other in terms of motherhood feeling. In both movies, it is
emphasized that maternity role of woman is sacred. Mother is to protect her child and be with
her/him all the time. She should be able to scarify herself to do this. In the final stage of the
movies, this message is very clear. Dahlia sacrifices herself for her daughter and dies, and in
her last talk Eda tells her husband that she is with her daughter, she dies for her daughter, too.
It does not matter whether they are victims or sinners; mothers are to do their best for their
children, face up to death and even die for them.
3.4. Visual and Iconographic Similarities of Films
The film Dark Water has a more coherent structure than Araf in terms of
cinematography. Jus as in its first version, there is a attempt to create an atmosphere close to
cinema form. With a fixed camera and relatively long plans, viewers are given the feeling of
atmosphere. The film has a slow tempo. This is far from the formal understanding of classical
Hollywood horror films. Influenced from the success Fareast cinema attained in horror genre,
Hollywood chose to use a minimalist narrative language in its adaptations. In stead of using
shocking visual effects, reliable, well-known objects and environmental features resembling
their original forms are used in the film. Lift, washing machine, small bag and various toys
are examples of these objects. Instead of creating special effects in the plot of the film,
passages were used in telling the story to increase cogency. Although lighting in the film
seeks to give a natural lighting feeling, it was specially designed. Especially in the outdoor
shots, rainy, cloudy times and nights were preferred. In the shots inside the apartment block,
with light design to create a dark atmosphere the spaces turned into scary, gloomy places,
thrilling was continued with the feeling of shock to happen at any time. Clothes are natural
parts of daily life. The dress of Natasha in the scenes in which she appears as a ghost is white
to contrast with her evil saying. Iconographic indications are also different from classical
Hollywood horror films with the effect of original form of the film. The bathroom and
bedroom of the house and the school appear as holy, scared spaces. The streets of the city got
wet in the rain, dark water as the foreshadower of death and water reservoir as the grave are
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