아오야마 신지(靑山眞治)의 초기작 연구: <헬프리스>, <유레카>에서의 무력감과 폐색감을 중심으로

Abstract

Shinji Aoyama’s early works “Helpless” and “Eureka” were the dominant emotions of Post-war Japanese society in the 1990s, the helplessness and sense of blockage. His film deals with signs of violence and murder by Japanese youths who have lost their identity as Japan has been reduced from a safe society to a society of danger by the Great Hanshin Earthquake and Aum Shinrikyo. Aoyama says the reason for the event or the invisible mechanism of transferring it is more frightening than the event itself. As the title suggests, “Helpless” is a movie about the helplessness of the Dankai generation and the unjustified violence, murder, and mental wandering of young Japanese people. “Eureka” is a movie that shows the physical movement of those who dramatically survived the murder of a bus kidnapper to escape the sense of blockage of mental trauma. Both films depict the formation of a similar-family form, starting with the collapse of the family. Movies are deeply correlated with the connections of stories through space-time aspects or social crimes. Aoyama’s interest is in Japanese society in the 1990s, which ended the era of high growth and abundance. And it is a gloomy prospect of modern Japanese youth living through it and of broken social mechanisms.