박경수 미니시리즈 삼부작 연구 －극적 세계의 친연성을 중심으로－

Abstract

The three-part mini-series released every year from 2012 to 2014 by dramatist Park Gyeong-su, is usually referred to as the trilogy. They are <The Chaser>, <The Empire of Gold> and <The Punch>, and these three texts take space of power, such as political/financial/legal community respectively as a major dramatic world. For this reason, the journal often referred to the three pieces as the ‘Power Trilogy’. However, the consistency of this title is not only because this trilogy has similar stories by the same author, but because this three part mini-series shares a dramatic world as follows: ① Due to an abnormal power network in which politics-capital-law are tightly adhered to, ② fragmentation and dissolution of the family are caused, ③ even simple personal desire is repressed, ④ forgoing of righteousness simultaneously conceives another corruption, ⑤ the revelations and accusations about the bitter disgrace of Korean society, ⑥ it subsequently overlaps color shaping it as an ambivalent monster. All parts of the trilogy take plot of revenge. It follows the procedure of ① family loss → ② unlawful blindness → ③ mutual destruction. A series of loss and destruction ranging from <The Chaser>, <The Empire of Gold> to <The Punch> clearly shows how personal life gets destroyed by power in modern society. Also, the trilogy tries to criticize the intolerant democracy and vulgar capitalism of modern/Korean/society or power(-holder) which is the cause of intolerance and vulgarity through: ① aggravation of conflicts through a multiple conflict and seesaw game, ② highlighting the antagonist who reminiscent a modern son of a concubine, ③ deployment of supporting actors who is inheritance and succession of power incarnate, ④ favoring the news as a means of conveying information, ⑤ and attention to ‘door’, ‘window’ and ‘room’ as an objective correlative of desire. In this context, the trilogy is a kind of ‘syntagme’ which is a confidentially connected ‘paradigme’. In other words, it is a 59-part epic drama combined and completed in three segments.