폐쇄된 장(場)과 폭력의 구조화: 영화<안개마을>에 나타난 농촌 공간의 적폐 연구

Closed Fields and the Structuring of Violence: A Study of Entrenched Social Evils in Rural Spaces in the Film <Mist Village>

This study examines Foggy Village through Bourdieu’s framework, showing rural spaces as autonomous fields that reproduce social inequities. The village’s fog symbolizes isolation, rendering “kin preservation” an unquestioned doxa, while individual habitus internalizes norms, sustaining power through invisible symbolic violence. Violence is systemic: male habitus enforces it, female habitus perpetuates it strategically, demonstrating ontological complicity. Spatial and social structures constrain alternative actions. The final scene, where Su-ok silently leaves the new teacher uninformed, embodies the structural force of the field. Her silence visualizes intergenerational persistence of violence, showing that systemic cycles cannot be broken by individual action alone. Foggy Village exposes how structural violence persists under the guise of tradition, offering a critical lens to understand oppression in closed communities.