초록 열기/닫기 버튼
The goal of this paper is to investigate how Pieta motif is used to represent the relationship between contemporary people and motherhood. The novel Please Look After Mom (by Shin Kyungsook) and the movie Pieta (by Kim Kiduk), both attracting global attention, are subject of this analysis. In the novel Please Look After Mom, Pieta motif appears intensively in the epilogue. In this epilogue, the writer-daughter is responsible for consisting of a various split view. Missing mom is on the overlap of the Holy Virgin Mary in Pieta and the confession of family members is likened to the Passion of the Christ. The characters’ guilt is transferred to the emotions of the readers. This conclusion, putting mother and the children on a lofty position, gives indulgence and comfort to readers. In the movie Pieta, this motif is exposed to the outside of work such as the title and the posters. As a result, the details of death surrounding the relationship between mother and son evoke the image of the Pieta. The first half and the second half is of the symmetric structure and mothering is developed as role-play of overlapped revenge and redemption. The audience is guided by this plot from the perspective of main male character, unfamiliar type of villain. After the death of the heroine, the audience face-to-face with the uncomfortable question instead of comfort when he shows the ending of the sacrifice. These two works sway between artistry and melodrama and shape the image of mother and children in korean society of this era.
키워드열기/닫기 버튼
Shin Kyungsook, Please Look After Mom, Kim Kiduk, Pieta, Pieta motif
