Political nature of Korean films has been pushed out into the vast stream of full-scaled consumer culture being started with an advent of democratization since 90c. If ever just a trace of political film should be followed, its political nature would ...
Political nature of Korean films has been pushed out into the vast stream of full-scaled consumer culture being started with an advent of democratization since 90c. If ever just a trace of political film should be followed, its political nature would be limited to an issue of very practical and empirical phenomenon. In other words, political film of Korea is unable to get out of a tendency of critical realism. This study intends to find out a possibility of creating a niche in limitation of political nature involved in Korean film through science fiction films.Its first reason is that SF film embodies a relation with reality allegorically through a mode of extrapolation based on an attribute of genre. Other reason is that SF genre in Korea has been almost a barren genre until recently. It means SF films has a full of potential as a film genre. For this objective, <Save the Green Planet> (2003), a film directed by Jang, Jun Hwan and <Snowpiercer> (2012), a film directed by Bong, Jun Ho, both of which show a critical attitude toward capitalistic system among Korea SF films would be analyzed as major text.