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A Study Of Stratum Narratives In Bong Joon-ho’s Films

Posted on:2023-09-08Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X SunFull Text:PDF
GTID:2555306803454464Subject:Theater, film and television
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In recent years,Korean films have made remarkable achievements in the field of global film art.As one of the leaders of Korean films,Bong Joon-ho won a number of Oscar awards for "Parasite" in 2019 and attracted a lot of discussion.In his works,he boldly expresses the awareness of social problems,constructs a narrative language that is acceptable to different regional cultures,regional spaces and even global audiences from a Stratum perspective,depicts a Stratum allegorical social landscape,and then expresses his own perception of the Stratum reality of Korean society.Thinking.Therefore,the study of Bong Joon-ho’s films is inseparable from the discussion of the social dimension.This paper mainly uses film narratology and social stratification theory as the research base,takes Feng Junhao’s seven feature films and three short films as research texts,and analyzes Feng Junhao’s films based on the Stratum characters,Stratum space and audio-visual means of expression in the images.The Stratum narrative characteristics and the meaning value contained in it.Under the influence of the surrounding artistic environment,the polarization of the social gap between the rich and the poor,and the multiple contexts of the penetration of Korean cultural values,Bong Joon-ho focuses on the social truth of the obvious Stratum stratification in Korea,focusing on the confrontation between the lower Stratum and the upper Stratum.Based on the pedigree group portraits of the characters who are opposed and dependent,it is concluded that the bottom layer and the top layer still did not get rid of their original fate after the struggle or life and death decision between the bottom and the top.The director placed these narrative characters in a space with obvious Stratum divisions,and presented Stratum tone through skilled audio-visual expression techniques,showing an alienated and spectacled Korean Stratum society,and a response to the violence and violence of upper-Stratum capital since the social transformation.Review and criticize the plight of the bottom groups.Bong Joon-ho’s films have a strong sense of social responsibility and humanitarian concern,as well as a profound experience of Korean social history,presenting allegorical social wonders,warning the characters of cultural crisis under the mental anxiety and examining post-colonialism national trauma.From the initial exploration of the narrative perspective of the middle Stratum in the first short film "The White People",to the more mature depiction of the conflict between Stratum and social power in "Snowpiercer",to the thematic expression of the shielding mechanism between Stratumes in "Parasite",It can be seen that " Stratum" is a widely expressed narrative theme in Bong Joon-ho’s films.The director uses this virtual narrative mode to present the real current situation of Korean society,analyze the social rules and order,and reveal it with a very socially critical attitude.The "injustice" of this order.
Keywords/Search Tags:Bong Joon-ho’s film, Stratum narratives, Narrative strategy, Meaning production
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