신성한 메데아의 탄생: 파졸리니의 영화 『메데아』

Abstract

Pier Paolo Pasolini's Film Medea, which is less an adaptation of the Euripides play than an interpretation of it, includes a lot of themes such as the sacred and the profane, man and women, reason and emotion, civilization and barbarism, the first and third world. This article analyzes the film from the perspective of the sacred and the profane. Pasolini gave attention to the ancient Myth of Medea, because he saw in it the root of problems of contemporary society that has lost the sacred. It is his fundamental idea that modern people who has lost the sacred and that the capitalistic society which puts top priority on material value causes necessarily the tragedy. So the Myth of Medea ends tragically in his movie. Pasolini describes vividly the process of collapse from the sacred to the profane world. It must of necessity be that the sacred is ruined in a civilized and profane world. But Medea recovers in the end the sacred and revenges herself on her antagonist. Through it Pasolini tried to express that the traces of the sacred is still present in a modern world. Pasolini has visualized in Medea his mythological world view that the catastrophe of modern society is rooted in the separation of the sacred and the profane, so salvation is only possible when we return from the profane to the sacred and from the division to the wholeness.