〈리틀 포레스트〉의 영화적 스타일과 ‘과정’의 의미

Abstract

This paper attempted to understand how the style of the film responds to the message of the importance and meaning of ‘process’ presented in the Japanese film 〈Little Forest〉. Lighting on the ‘process’ is a message that gives modern people who are accustomed to the results room to reconsider the ‘process’ and extends not only to material things but also to human relationships. The film expresses this message in the style of a movie, not a story or conversation. Style elements such as narration, split screen, and cutaway are becoming devices that draw concentration and empathy for the ‘process’ through the audience’s visual experience. Each stylistic element delivers the process and continuation to the audience, giving them an audiovisual effect of sharing experience and time, unlike ordinary movies that experience a quick succession of causes and effects. The experience of process and continuation leads to human relationships, becoming a force to overcome the conflict and escape that the protagonist experienced in the city. Cooking appears as an important element of showing this process and continuation, and it becomes a subject that can be thought of by extending to human relationships, not just eating habits, in repetitions and variations that characterize everyday life. Attention to this ‘process’ leads us to think about the pathological problems of modern society called performance society and fatigue society. And through this, it can be an opportunity to recognize the self-identity accumulated through repetition and change of the ‘process’, not the self swept up by the trend of the times.