네오리얼리즘의 미학적 지향에서 바라본 장률의 영화미학 = Zhang Lu`s Film Aesthetics from the Viewpoint of Neo-realism`s Aesthetic Orientation

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This paper attempts to look into filmmaker Zhang Lu`s aesthetics through Italian Neo-realism. Neo-realism tried to break from the narrative-centric strategy of Classical realism and place unedited real life on the screen. This orientation tends to remove mis-en-scene, interpretation(acting), and narrative from film. Andre Bazin called this aesthetic orientation of Neo-realism towards new reality phenomenological realism. It is here where Zhang Lu`s film aestheticsis located. Zhang Lu wants to present reality as it is through his film. This is why the paper attempts to research into Zhang Lu`s film aesthetics within the framework of Neo-realism`s aesthetic orientation. This paper looks through the space, character, camera, and narrative structure of Zhang Lu`s films. The space of Zhang Lu`s film is not just a background of events. It is the event itself. Space becomes a filmic entity that interacts with characters and camera in Zhang Lu`s film. To make space a filmic entity, Zhang Lu`s film use long take and long shot. Actors are not requested to act in Zhang Lu`s film. They are requested to be as they really are. They are in a form of the rhythm of motion and voice in Zhang Lu`s film. Zhang Lu`s camera has a kind of self-consciousness. And it also reflects characters` consciousness. So we can say Zhang Lu`s camera is a kind of a semi-subjective consciousness. Lastly the narrative of Zhang Lu`s films is not composed of cause and effect. It is composed of casual encounters. This gives each scene of Zhang Lu`s film greater autonomy in its life. From above discussion, we can find out that Zhang Lu`s film is not oriented towards narrative, but oriented towards experience of reality itself. And this is the reason why we can locate Zhang Lu`s film aesthetics in the aesthetic orientation of Neo-realism, phenomenological realism. There are differences not to be ignored between Zhang Lu`s film and Neo-realism as a historical trend of film. But from a viewpoint of aesthetic orientation, the two can communicate with each other.