<아무르>의 거주공간과 풍경화 쇼트들에 대한 분석

An Analysis of the Shots of Living Space and Landscape Paintings in 'Amour'

In Michael Haneke's 2012 film Amour, two sets of shots are presentedambiguously at the crucial moments of main character's elderly lives. Oneis a series of landscape shots taken from the oil paintings, which havebeen hung on the walls of their living space, and the other are five stillshots of their living room, kitchen, dining room, bedroom and lobby area. Those shots were presented with a shock so that they attracts viewers'attention and make them reflect on the theme of the film, that is deathresided in their space and repressed as a sign of forthcoming disaster themain characters have to confront. This paper tries to investigate on themeaning of the shots in relation with the theme of Michael Haneke'souvre, especially those deal with suicidal acts. The shots of landscapepaintings reveal a sense of uncanny, emanated from an invisible realitythat has been existed in their living space but they have not owned, thatis death. The shots of their living space correspond with the shots oflandscape paintings, producing the paradoxical meaning of living space asa reflection on the consciousness of human being thrown into the world. And this leads us to read this space as heterotopia, spaces that have morelayers of meaning or relationships to other places than immediately meetthe eye. Furthermore, Haneke plays with the icons of horror-disaster genremovie with the space in favor of self-determination for death of the maincharacters. For Haneke, suicide might be an authentic and ethical act that rejects or intervenes the symbolic system, thus results in radical self-destruction.