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http://dx.doi.org/10.5392/JKCA.2022.22.10.172

The Body Understanding and Narrative Research of "I Am What I Am" (2021)  

Xu, Yi-Jia (세종대학교 공연영상애니메이션학과 애니메이션전공)
Choi, Eun-Kyoung (세종대학교 공연영상애니메이션학과 애니메이션전공)
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The Journal of the Korea Contents Association / v.22, no.10, 2022 , pp. 172-180 More about this Journal
Abstract
Focusing on the concept of "narrative of desire" advocated by Peter Brooks, this paper aims to analyze the construction and presentation of the body narrative in I Am What I Am, combined with the "body situation" concept of Merleau-Ponty, the pioneer of body studies. This paper first analyzes the changes in the characters' physical and mental cognition in the film through the "desire narrative" and "visual body" proposed by body narratologist Peter Brooks. Secondly, this paper summarizes the physical and mental evolution of the coward-rebel-disciple-self-breaker experienced by the teenager, and analyzes the continuous plot composed of the body in time and space through the physical situation formed by time and space, that is, the visual presentation of the juvenile's personal body picture. So the protagonist's physical desire and visual body in "I Am What I Am" are the meta-driving forces of the narrative. The film presents the subject's physical desire in a visual way, and reproduces the deduction process of the body narrative through the body situation.shift from the common surreal, magical special effects, exaggeration, deformation and other techniques of commercial animations such as "Ne Zha: Birth of the Demon Child" (2019) and "Legend of Deification" (2020) to the true-life "I am What I am". "(2021), "To the Bright Side" (2022) and other visual experiences of the same kind marks breakthroughs made by Chinese animation and is of practical significance.
Keywords
Peter Brooks; Merleau-Ponty; Desire Body; Body Situation; I Am What I Am;
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