퀴어 서사의 변화와 관계 맺기의 정동 — 타이완 영화 <처음 꽃향기를 만난 순간>을 중심으로

Abstract

Sexual minority discourse is gradually expanding, raising voices on diversity issues and human rights improvement. As a result, a wind of change is blowing in national policies, industrial trends, and even public opinion in the cultural world, and entities producing media content around the world are concentrating on revealing issues and issues related to sexual minorities in various ways. In this background, this study examines the new meaning and value of the narrative of the Taiwanese GL film Fragrance of the First Flower. The film avoids the common homonormative portrayal of queer representations, which embodies the desire for improvement of gay rights and confirmation of identity. Instead, it depicts the creation of feelings of love and solidarity between two characters, a girl and a woman, who exist in a multi-layered timeline, realizing a narrative of unrivaled dimension that moves between melodrama and reality genres. Fragrance of the First Flower reproduces the lives of homosexuals who exist as a complete you and I through the affective temporality that is created from a true encounter with others. The narrative of this film raises implications about how queer ethical representation can be achieved.