간첩영화로 본 2010년대 새로운 내셔널리즘 주체성 연구—영화 '의형제'와 '베를린'을 중심으로

Abstract

The most popular material of popular Korean movies is ‘a spy story’ by far. Already, the national identity of Korea has been established on the premise of ‘separation,’ and generations that grew up after the Cold War and neo-liberalism are also not free from the influence of such historical growth. This study aims to analyze how Chinese librarians implement the process of changing the perception of North Korea that communication and war end, and to examine the identity of Korean nationalism in the 2010s. The integrated nature of the media of the movie serves as a forum for diagnosing capital, political intentions, and the desire of audiences as consumers through an era. In particular, “Secret Reunion” and “The Berlin File”, that chose to be the subjects of the study, not only transformed the spy into a central figure, but also received high public acclaim. The two movies are not the traditional view of interpreting spies as “a symbol of North Korea.” They try to look at the North’s sign itself through the process of giving them a sense of identity. Also featured are middle-aged South Korean agents in the form of Buddy Movie Format and forming romantic ties with them. The relationship between past agents forced out of power and North Korea’s spy shows how the film unites the main body. Through analyzing the central characters of the two movies, we can see why spy movies are still meaningful to us in the 2010s. At the same time, we can see how national identity is constructed and how it changes, and how screens function as public veils. In the end, the two movies show the incomplete ending of the main characters on their unfinished journey. The process allows us to ‘receive’ that we are a generation that passes through the paradox of division and unity.