헤테로토피아 공간과 새로운 공동체의 가능성 - 영화 <개같은 날의 오후>와 <꿈의 제인>을 중심으로 -

Abstract

This study began with the question of what it would mean to pursue and realize such a heterotopia space in modern society. To find an answer, we analyzed the heterotopia spaces in A Hot Roof and Jane and examined their meanings in relation to real space. In A Hot Roof, a heterotopia space is realized as an ‘apartment rooftop’ where female residents, who have become murderers, flee. In Jane, a heterotopia space is represented as the ‘Jane fam’, a makeshift family envisioned by So-hyeon. The heterotopia spaces in these two works serve as ‘anti-spaces’, raising objections to real space. Additionally, the female residents of A Hot Roof and So-hyeon of Jane experience ‘outer experiences’, and the principle of ‘exclusion’ plays a key role in the ‘outside’ experiences of these characters. Each of them forms a ‘communitas’ through the solidarity of women resisting society and the familial bonds formed by Jane's care within the ‘Jane fam’. This new community demonstrates the possibility of realizing equality by forming connections and solidarity in complete relationships between individuals, free from the structural order of existing social norms and hierarchies. The heterotopia spaces in A Hot Roof and Jane allow for the formation of new communities outside the normative structures of modernity, though they are temporary. However, it is through the endings, where the characters return to the real space of the existing order from the fantastical space that subverts reality, that a symptomatic reading of reality becomes possible. Therefore, the heterotopia spaces portrayed in A Hot Roof and Jane are like temporary festive spaces, but their value lies in experiencing these ‘outside spaces’, which allow not only for the struggle against reality but also for the imagination of alternatives, such as coexistence. Thus, the imagination of heterotopia embodied in modern society can be found in that it essentially reflects on the contemporary era and seeks new alternatives.