영화<죽여주는 여자>의 제의적 국면에서 나타난 ‘금기위반’과 ‘경계해체’에 대한 연구

Abstract

The objective of this study is to define the meaning of “taboo violation” and “border dismantling” in a South Korean movie, The Bacchus Lady, using a mythological approach adopted by Rene Girard in his book, La Violence et le Sacré. The film received great attention when it was first released in 2016 for casting light on Korea’s complex social and political scene, calling attention to sensitive issues surrounding social class, ethnicity, generation, capital, multicultural conflicts, the handicapped, and sexual minorities, as well as gender and otherization. The Bacchus Lady was a significant film in that “others” in Korean society were newly represented on screen. However, it got mixed reviews; some argued that the film completed the myth of motherhood in a patriarchal society, while others acclaimed it restored the sense of community ethics. Clearly, “motherhood” is a double-edged sword, full of contradictions. The current study the film as a place of “subversion” with confrontational ideas and thoughts, not as having taken an ideological approach of a motherhood myth. “Violence and the sacred,” Girard’s view of the ancient mythological world, was employed to show that a contradictory concept of “sacred violence” does exist. The film sets an eye on the liberation of “post-modern” violation beyond the clash point of violating taboos and the sacred, This can be seen as an ancient primitive subversiveness blurring the boundaries of the mainstream and non-mainstream, crime and good will, and reason and sensibility.