The Research Of Lee Chang-don's Film

The Korean director,Lee Chang-don is known as “Green silk poet”,whose works are based on the local Korea,but also describe the emotional dilemma in common people.The conflicts between realism and poetry make his films reveal the Sartre's puzzle of “being” and Heidegger's thoughts of“poetic dwelling”.This essay has analyzed movies of Lee Chang-don from the perspectives of culture,narrative strategies and the audio-visual languages,then interpreted the power of movies.Chapter one focuses on the long-history Confucian culture,collective unconscious “hate culture” and “sin culture” which under the global perspective from Korean history,politics and culture.The absence of the“father” image and the broking of homeland all means the fall of Confucian culture.Lack of root and disorder became the vivid description of Korean mordern development.Lee Chang-don used violence against violence and denied the possibility of reconstruction of the culture of hatred.The Korean nation who lacks the awareness of original sin cannot adapt Christan to Korean Peninsula.When people questioned the lack of God,the plan of Redemption went bankrupt.Chapter two is about narrative.Ascending the conflict of human beings and reality,Lee focused on the extended spirit world and he started it with the motif of being-towards-death,emphasizing the uniqueness and critical thinking in his image world.Lee tried to use death to differentiate the circumstance of human being and analyze the significance of “being”.In the repetitious narrative,he shows the coming back of individuals and the figure lost the destination in the space narrative of home,society and nature.Chapter three analyzed Lee's movie from the perspective of the audio-visual language.He prefers to a moving full-length shot and it reveals some kind of observation as a spectator.The colorful picture shows his enthusiasm of reality.The theory of appreciating solemn makes the figures inhis movie do not fond of talking,but the singing songs say the true felling.Every picture and sound shows Lee's ingenuity.