<러시안 소설>, 대화적 관계 안에서의 삶과 예술

Abstract

Independent cinema has been growing steadily for recent years in Koreanfilm industry. Despite an increase in production and generalization of onlinescreening,communication between independent cinema and the public is stilllacking. Based on critical awareness of this situation, by suggesting clearly differentiatedproduction system from commercial films, <The Russian Novel> creates anunique aesthetic of independent cinema. Like most of the experience of independent cinema, this film is coming toaudiences very unfamiliarly because the story and the plot of this film areintricately intertwined as like the character said the Russian Novel is quite long,complicated and have many characters. Moreover, there is a clear difference between this film and other recentindependent films that represent a reality in Korean society in the way usingconventional codes. An interesting feature of this film is in focusing from a different standpointthe relationship between the subject and others in the center of dialecticrelationshipsbetween life and art. In <the Russian Novel>, characters in themiddle of momentous of the twenties are talking with each other and filling upan individual’s life with acceptance of others’ reaction and the result of thiscommunication is a novel. To use the words of Bakhtin, the subject does not have its own language inarea of literary and everyday utterance. Therefore, the utterance by the subjectonly can have the meaning through interaction which is others’ reaction. The subject and others are co-producers living together in special social and historicalcontext.