<워낭소리>의 픽션(fiction)적 내러티브 구축에 대한 연구

Abstract

<Old Partner>, the independent documentary film has recorded more than three millions of audience during 6 months(it was first released in January, 2009). The reason of its unexpected popularity was hotly debated in journalism and on internet. The reason of its success was generally diagnosed due to the film’s nostalgic atmosphere which reminds ‘the lost hometown’ and sense of guilty of middle aged audience for their abandonment of old parents. Though my research was started from simple curiosity-why the film has won such huge popularity-, I thought there should have been something more than that. Through my research, I have discovered that the film heavily depends upon fictional strategy in plotting and characterization of the heroes including animals. The former is achieved by putting the sequences in fictional order not in the order of them really happened and the latter is mainly achieved through editing and using sound. Both strategies contribute in making an effective popular fictional story form that Vladimir Propp suggested in his famous book, The Morphology of the Falk Tale. Thus, although the film is categorized as a ‘documentary’ film, it actually appears as an excellent ‘fiction’ film, using narrative strategy of popular fictional films. Therefore, the film could acquire the ‘popularity’ that popular fiction films generally enjoy as well as the ‘truthfulness’ that people normally endow to documentary films.