봉준호의 영화 <설국열차>(2013)와 <기생충>(2019)에 나타나는 계급 양극화와 파국적 상상력

Class Polarization and Catastrophic Imagination in Bong Joon Ho’s Snowpiercer (2013) and Parasite (2019)

Bong Joon Ho’s Snowpiercer (2013) and Parasite (2019) are excellent films to engage with the theme of catastrophe in our contemporary era. Snowpiercer is a global sci-fi film in English-language, and Parasite is a local drama set in Korean realities; however, they are both about a catastrophe caused by class polarization. While Snowpiercer is a universal allegory of the current global capitalist system, Parasite is a fable that captures the Korean specificities of neoliberal capitalist society. This paper examines the ways in which global and local catastrophes are imagined and portrayed in Bong Joon Ho’s films and how they reflect and address the collective fear and anxiety. The analysis of these two films will reveal the political nature of Bong’s films and the physical and moral catastrophe portrayed in the films.