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Approach to Reality in Never Ending Story, Japanese Sex Slavery Victims Animation

일본군 위안부 피해자 애니메이션, <끝나지 않은 이야기>의 리얼리티에 대한 접근

  • Oh, Dong-IL (History & Cultural Contents, Sun Moon University)
  • Received : 2015.09.01
  • Accepted : 2015.10.26
  • Published : 2015.10.31

Abstract

Never Ending Story is an animation work about the stories of the Japanese Sex Slavery Victims who were taken by the Japanese military and forced to sexual slavery, which tormented them with painful memories all their lives. This animation work stimulates the critical perspectives of the audiences in order to ensure a history-based approach based on facts. And, unlike general character animation works which pursue immersion and empathy through illusion of life that are created by the characters, this work demands the audiences to contemplate on historical facts described in the work and make their own judgements. In order to serve these purposes, this work is characterized by its aesthetics properties and elements such as 'sympathy', 'typification', and 'alienation effect'. And, these elements effectively deliver the reality of historical facts that cannot be denied in a chronological narrative. Therefore, this study would sufficiently be of a value in reviewing the diversity in expression and the methodologies used in them, let alone the significance of the theme itself.

<끝나지 않은 이야기>는 일본군 위안부로 끌려가 평생을 잊지 못할 고통의 기억 속에 살아온 할머니의 이야기를 애니메이션으로 제작한 작품이다. 이 작품은 역사적 사실에 대한 올바른 접근을 위해 관찰자로서 관객의 비판적 의식을 자극하고 있다. 즉, 캐릭터를 통해 창출되는 생명력의 환영에 대한 몰입과 공감을 추구하는 일반적인 캐릭터 애니메이션과는 달리, 작품에서 묘사되는 역사적 사실에 대한 진지한 고찰과 판단을 관객에게 요구하고 있다. 이를 위하여 작품에는 '동조', '전형화', '소외효과'라는 미학적 요소와 특징이 두드러지게 나타나고 있으며, 그것은 연대기적으로 전개되는 스토리 구조 속에서 부정하거나 거부할 수 없는 역사적 사실의 리얼리티를 효과적으로 표현하고 있다. 그러므로 본 연구는 작품이 지닌 주제적인 중요성뿐만 아니라, 애니메이션이 지니고 있는 표현적 다양성과 방법론을 살펴본다는 점에서 충분히 연구가치가 있다고 할 수 있다.

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