여성 바라보기의 안과 밖: 영화 <바그다드 카페> 다시 읽기 = The Sphere of Inside and Outside of a Look at Women—Focusing on Bagdad Cafe

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The feministic buddy movie, Bagdad Cafe (1987) shows the amazing possibility of a perfect community by showing how two racially and culturally different women, Jasmin and Brenda, become a true friend by communicating and understanding each other. It also shows the process of finding one’s identity as a woman is made up not because of the fixed stereotype of a sex but because of various changes, renovation of an image, and the atmosphere of free communication that woman experiences.
The real power of women comes to the surface when they unite. Women recover their self-esteems and live independent lives by communicating and sharing in the community of women. The basic maternity of women is like the power of the earth that loves and cares about a new life and a new community. Women reconstruct their community by acknowledging others, sympathizing with their agonies, and communicating with all their hearts. This kind of life in a community is what makes women to recover from their low self-esteems and become the main character of their own lives.
Furthermore, Bagdad Cafe addresses a new aspect of a feministic movie by emphasizing the image of racially different women, who recognize and respect each other’s differences. Meeting Jasmin, Brenda recovers her feminity and finds true meaning of herself despite the social perception of her race and gender.
As the original title of this movie is Out of Rogenhime, Jasmin had the opportunity to look back to her life and became the owner of her own life by leaving her hometown; she freed herself from the suppression of her husband and faced a whole new situation. Thus, the desert represents a reality that Jasmin encounters after being deserted, as well as a reality that she needs to overcome.
In Bagdad Cafe, Jasmin transforms, and is transformed by, the lives of a motley band of people who inhabit in the cafe. A wish-fulfilling fantasy about culture-clash and the melting-pot, it's also firmly grounded in telling and cinematically original observations. The beauty of woman's body can be found in woman's internal conditions. This film may have some feminist elements, some sexist elements, because feminism is not simply the absence of sexism. But to actually evaluate whether a film as a whole is feministic requires much more than a tally of female characters and the conversations between them. In this point, this film, Bagdad Cafe can be a good example of feminism movie.

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