영화 『인생 후르츠』에 구현된 생태의식 연구

Abstract

The work aims to shed light on the ecological consciousness and the themes drawn by the nature-friendly gaze in the film Life Is Fruit. The film was produced and aired as a TV documentary in Japan in 2016 and released as a film in January 2017, drawing 300,000 viewers in an unusual move for an independent film, which has been running for more than a year. <Life is fruity> can be interpreted and viewed from an ecological perspective in that it does not deal directly with future social disasters or environmental disasters, but rather shows the nature-friendly and ecological picture of the elderly couple. Especially, it shows the problems of urban development hidden behind modernity and technological progress, environmental pollution, energy consumption, human communication through analog methods, ecological agriculture and technological civilization, and the value of slow speed. The story of the two couples who cultivate their old lives by cultivating a garden outside of the city not only highlights the reality of the movie, but also embodies the aesthetic of slowness while seeking peaceful coexistence between nature and human beings, so discussions from an ecological perspective are fully possible. To this end, I analyzed the film in three categories of deep ecology. First, the symbolic space as an eco-topia, second, life-equal consciousness and love, third, the process of self-realization and the view of solidarity with others. <Life is fruity> goes beyond the enlightening consciousness exposed by some ecumenical literature or films, in that it has a existential theme of nature and human exploration beyond a person's life. 󰡒When the wind blows, the leaves fall off. The ground becomes fertile when the fallen leaves fall. When the land becomes fertile, the fruit comes out.” The poetic narration of “step by step, slowly” is the principle of nature: circulation and regeneration within the life community.