Geographical isolation and tradition in Korean cinema: Io Island and Bedevilled proposals
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https://doi.org/10.25145/j.latente.2020.18.05Keywords:
South Korea, Korean film, Korean cinema, isolation, film genre, Io Island, Bedevilled, Kim Ki-youngAbstract
The plots of Io Island (Kim Ki-young, 1977) and Bedevilled (Jang Cheol-soo, 2010) have some elements in common: both films tell a story about a lead character that must leave its living place in a big city and go to a tiny and isolate island where the way of living different from the urban lifestyle he or she are accustomed to. In that island –in each of these films the represented island in question is different but works very seemingly culturally and socially– the lead character will be the victim of the contrast between the urban and rural traditions. This paper explores that contrast in these two films from a cultural point of view. Moreover, it examines the ways in which the film genre is related to the geographical space in Io Island and Bedevilled.
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