타자를 재현하는 영화의 윤리적 태도: 탈북자를 다룬 영화들을 중심으로

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to identify as aspect of ethical attitude with which movies approach the others or the agony of the others by analyzing how the movies in the era reproduce the North Korean defectors appearing as new others of Korean society. All characters of the Secret Reunion and Poongsan faithfully complying with the grammar of genre movies are the objects of our fantasy toward the others of ‘North Korea.’ This type of reproduction method is in use to ignite a genre orgasm by removing the realistic background that North Korean defectors might have. Next, through Dance Town, a low budget independent film, this study critically analyzed the aspects of transferring the realism, a primarily aesthetic attitude into a view of the world of the director. These movies should be the Antinomy in the point that they reproduce the agony of the others but that they block the possibilities of change in reality as they are. Finally, this study presented two types of ethical forms reproducing the others through the Journals of Musan and Duman River. The Journals of Musan shows a method of inducing questions of audience for capitalistic violence of Korean society by preparing time of ‘black silence’, and Duman River shows a method of helping the audience recognize the painful reality of the others that the movie would reproduce as their own problems. By directly conflicting with the area of politics, these two movies secure film power of helping the audience facing facts as they are in our society where the North Korean defectors reside.