지아장커의 <상해전기>에 나타난 영화적 미장아빔과 역사 횡단 연구

A Study on Cinematic Mise en abyme & History Cross-strait in Jia Zhangke’s <I Wish I Knew>

<I Wish I Knew> is a visual poem by Jia Zhangke, who re-read Shanghai’s history from a present perspective. Following the gaze of a serene, dreamy camera, the landscape of Shanghai unfolds, and countless people emerge who ever lived and living there. Shanghai is one of the most complex city and has a variety of history and culture among Chinese cities. It imprints the modern history of China, which is transforming into a socialist country as well as Western culture and diverse cultures of Asian countries, on the whole of the city. Jia Zhangke brings the city’s mysterious secrets to the memory of those who lived through the age of change. This film is made up of four layers. Seventeen interviews, black-and-white photographs and video footages, the journey of an unidentified white-clad woman, and innumerable silent figures of Shanghai today. Interviewees speak of the parents’ generation and their own glory, and city workers who don’t speak anything are mixed up on multi layer and showing the face of Shanghai. And the film acts as a cinematic mise en abyme with various borrowed film scenes, which serve to reconstruct Shanghai’s history.