영화 <盲山(Blind Mountain)>과 파놉티콘의 사회

Abstract

This study approaches the text of Li Yang’s film Blind Mountain from the perspectives of conception on a Panopticon-like society in Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault. He thought that individuals of modern society are rectified, disciplined and controlled by disciplines and national institutions. This study analyzes how XueMeis are monitored and controled and through which taming tools they lethargically accept being kidnapped, human-trafficked, and forced to marriage as well as this Panoptic village. The three attempts to escape from the village made by XueMei and three ensuing failures show Panopticon-like social structure of the village, BaiShiZhen(白石鎭), and attitudes of the villagers. XueMei goes through taming tools such as violence of husband and his parents, taunts of those with power and their psychological mindset, and deportation by those in trust. Nonetheless, she is not tamed and breaks the violence of taming by killing Huang DeGui, her husband. Through this process, we can witness resistance of XueMei who stands up against deprivation of sovereign freedom and acts to achieve freedom in a Panoptic society as well as her breaking points of a Panoptic society.