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The Social Dilemma of Chinese Village Community: Focusing on the Film

중국 마을 공동체의 사회적 딜레마: 영화 <빈관>을 중심으로

  • Sun, Ming-Yue (Department of Media Communication & Advertising, Tongmyong University) ;
  • Lee, Hee-Seung (Department of Media Communication, Tongmyong University)
  • 손명열 (동명대학교 언론영상광고학과) ;
  • 이희승 (동명대학교 미디어커뮤니케이션학과)
  • Received : 2021.02.25
  • Accepted : 2021.05.20
  • Published : 2021.05.28

Abstract

This study aimed to examine the dilemma of rural China under rapid urbanization process after economic reform, by paying attention to the problem of the order of village community and the expression of individual desires depicted in the film with a rural background. To this end, the narrative analysis, which is suitable for exploring the story structure and expression style of the text, was conducted to examine the community order and ethics, patriarchy and paternity, and the expression of desires of subject. In the film, closed space and villagers, who are disciplined by community customs, local culture, and formality of the rule of manners, are depicted. The film is covered in a form of mystery movie dealing with the deaths of members of the village community. However, the film talks about the rise of the Imaginary desire of subject against the symbolic rules of community order and ethics through the puzzle pieces story according to the perspectives of the characters. In conclusion, through the narrative analysis, it was possible to examine the implications of weakened communal discipline and paternity of the countryside by the rapid urbanization of China, and implications of the lethargy and neurosis of the subjects.

본 연구는 농촌을 배경으로 한 영화 <빈관>에 묘사된 마을 공동체의 질서와 개개인의 욕망의 발현의 문제에 주목하여 경제개혁 이후 급격히 도시화되고 있는 중국의 농촌 사회가 겪고 있는 딜레마를 고찰해보고자 했다. 이를 위해 텍스트의 이야기 구조와 표현방법을 탐구하는 서사분석을 진행하여 공동체적 질서와 윤리, 가부장제와 부권, 개인주체들의 욕망의 발현에 대해 살펴봤다. 영화 <빈관>에는 공동체적 관습, 향토적 문화, 예치주의에 훈육된 마을 사람들과 폐쇄적 공간이 묘사된다. 영화는 마을 공동체 일원의 죽음을 다루는 범죄 미스터리물이라는 외피를 두르고 있지만, 인물들의 시점들에 따른 퍼즐식 서사방식을 통해 공동체적 질서와 윤리라는 상징계적 규율에 대항하는 개인 주체들의 상상계적 욕망의 발현을 이야기하고 있다. 결론적으로 영화에 대한 서사분석을 통해 중국의 급격한 도시화 과정에 따라 약화된 시골의 공동체적 규율과 부권, 주체들의 정신적 무기력증과 신경증이 서사에 함의되어 있음을 고찰할 수 있었다.

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Acknowledgement

This work was supported by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea and the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-2020S1A5B8102066)

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