<십 년 대만>에 나타난 대만의 사회적 문제 = Taiwanese Social Issues in Ten Years Taiwan

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study analyzes the ways in which contemporary Taiwanese social issues are depicted in three films The Can of Anido, 942, and The Sleep out of the five segments in Ten Years Taiwan. Specifically it examines the violation of the Tao people’s ecological sovereignty in terms of the Taiwanese government’s nuclear waste disposal and the indigenous people’s reactions in The Can of Anido; through 942, it discusses what visual strategies the film employs in order to criticize the Taiwanese society’s connivance in the discrimination faced by the migrant workers as subalterns; lastly, the discussion on The Sleep reveals that its science-fiction setting despite its future temporality allegorically addresses Taiwan’s current issues.
While previous studies largely claim that this omnibus film is apolitical and eschews addressing the intimidating presence of China, this research argues that, despite its ambiguous visual language, The Sleep covertly references Cross-Strait relations, which have served as a source of trauma for the sovereignty-aspiring Taiwanese. This is evident in the continuous metaphorical allusion in the film to Taiwan’s uncertain future, even though it refrains from directly mentioning China.
Viewed through the lens of Cross-Strait relations and Taiwanese identity, this study concludes that the themes of The Can of Anido and 942, which initially seem unrelated to sensitive Cross-Strait politics, are ultimately intertwined with the issue of Taiwan’s identity crisis allegorized in The Sleep. In other words, all of the three segments, The Can of Anido, 942, and The Sleep, critically visualize the obstacles blocking Taiwan’s entry into a multicultural society, one that would legitimize Taiwan’s independent existence.