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다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Jang Joon-Hawn’s Save the Green Planet defies an easy categorization in its generic hybridity and comic character building. Stretched unevenly along the bricolage of typical B-movie milieu, the self-claimed, plebian hero, lost in immitigable trauma and vengeful madness, does not complete his savior mission. Unlike other technically empowered superheroes of the just cause, he even fails to earn the moral sympathy from the audience. Yet he dies a hero of our own time in that he, as a victim of galactic conspiracy and his own paranoid fantasy, clairvoyantly anticipates and partly impairs the monstrous conglomerate of capitalism and political corruption. Generically overturning the repressive political measures of 1980s into their cinematic opposites, the kidnapper-torturer-schemer at once problematizes the logic of infinite justice and befuddles our sense of reality. No sooner Byung-Gu’s monomaniacal revenge became pointless than the victimized industrial magnet turned out to be a real alien with the greater monstrosity. Ironically, fantasy returns as a repressed trauma precisely when the movie actualizes the imagined catastrophe. Diegetic flashbacks about Byung-Gu’s schizophrenia and CEO Kang’s imaginary ufology retroactively obtain a political significance in terms of the desire of the Other. The kidnapper and the victim mirror each other and share the same futile desire that depends on the grand catastrophic scenario controlled all along by the omnipotent Big Brother. Byung-Gu is made a superhero of our time not by his tragic sacrifice but by his very traumatic madness. Neither a winner of infinite justice nor an anti-heroic moral victor, Byung-Gu ironically represents the birth of the hero of the third kind: a ghost. A ghostly hero born in the ashes of the catastrophe, Byung-Gu will haunt us the citizen of globalization as an ineffable signifier of absent, absolute otherness. Save the Green Planet records the last heroic resistance of the traumatic madness in the face of the impending doom of global annihilation.

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