카를로스 레이가다스 <침묵의 빛>의 형식 스타일과 세계관 분석-칼 테오도르 드레이어의 <오뎃트>와 비교분석을 중심으로-

Abstract

Carlos Reygadas’s Silent Light exhibits a special relationship with Carl TH. Dreyer’s Ordet, because you can perceive a certain attempt beyond homage in Silent Light. In order to make the special connection with Ordet, Silent Light bares similar situations and main conflicts from Ordet. However, Silent Light gives us an opposite conclusion and shows us a different world view by using a formal system that is quite different from the Ordet’s. Carlos Reygadas’s world view and formal system in his movies are important to study, because he has developed consistently this world-view and formal system through his previous works such as Japon and Battle in Heaven. Miracles may happen in Ordet’s world through faith in God, sacrifice, and forgiveness. However, it does not exist in Silent Light even though people desire, because people nowadays do not believe miracles. Unlike Ordet’s formal system that drives people to focus on its message and story, the formal system in Silent Light isn’t the factor that supports its story but the means of communication as itself. The long-take shots and breaking visual grammar require people to look around the things that they do not pay attention to and face up to the reality. The reason that Carlos Reygadas chooses Carl TH. Dreyer’s Ordet is not to undermine it, but it is to hold Ordet’s classical world view and formal systems. In fact, he has a great regard for the concept of redemption and belief in Ordet and this is the most important reason for his choice. He passes a judgement that Ordet can’t reflect the present time. Thus, he tries to adapt it to the present time’s circumstances by using his own formal systems. Silent Light is the result of his such attempt.