영화 속 타자성 분석-<포도나무를 베어라>를 중심으로 -

Analysis on Otherness in a Film-Focusing on <Pruning the Grapevine>-

Director Min Byunghun's third feature film, <Pruning the Grapevine>(2006) has been constantly interpreted as a kind of growth period that young theological students cannot but undergo in the narrative stream of faith and salvation. It is very interesting to substitute a philosophical thought for an analysis on the film. The philosophical thought is the concept of Other(他者) stressed by E. Levinas. In the film, several beings as alter ego with 'the Face of the Other' appear among a series of accidents in which Suhyeon, a theological student, again invokes a conflict with Sua, his ex-girlfriend and comes to feel a sense of guilt. The film symbolically expresses the process in which the subject with falsity, fear and weakness genuinely ask for the Other's or her forgiveness. Inner truths which have never been said are discovered with the technique of 'Otherness' as the uncertain and unlimited world, since a mirror device reinforcing the three-dimensional characteristics of characters, and furthermore, a large Otherness world in which the characters are engaged with each other like toothed wheels and which therefore covers the whole space-time in the film were established. By analyzing <Pruning the Grapevine>, the Otherness-centered film, this study emphasizes a limit of the subject and the necessity of Other. In addition, only altruistic attitudes with which one can face and be responsible for things different from him/her does not allow him/her to recognize the world as a target to be conquered, but to progress toward the future. It can be also found that the communication with God, which we cannot predict, would begin, only if we are not afraid of God's mask created by us and prune false grapevines.