The purpose of this study is to identify the need to recover analog sensibility lost in modern digital civilization through the film Love Letter directed by Iwai Shunji. The core motifs of Love Letter are the sense of loss due to the death of a lover and the memory of first love. Modern people who are accustomed to digital civilization are expanding their sense of loneliness and isolation through mechanical encounters and interactions rather than the sincerity of relationships. The value of Love Letter is not limited to simply overcoming the pain of reality through past memories and recollections of lovers and first loves. Digital civilization only continues mechanical contact rather than human intimacy through nature, human relationships, and interactions recreated in virtual reality. Such mechanical contact and exchange cannot deeply experience the pure beauty of nature and the inner longing and pain that are reproduced in the movie. In particular, the letter functions as a medium of delayed communication that allows emotions to accumulate and deepen, unlike instantaneous digital interaction. White snow with a white snowy landscape as a background can be imitated in a digital virtual reality, but the reproduction of the precious values ??of purity, longing, and memories that can be felt in real nature may have limitations. This is because pure emotions and memories of the past cannot be reproduced by digital machines. The film further emphasizes this through visual imagery such as white snow, which symbolizes purity, memory, and emotional stillness beyond digital reproduction. The expansion of isolation, dry exchanges, and lack of emotion that humans can experience in a digital civilization society causes them to lose the essential value of life. In other words, Love Letter is valuable in that it suggests to the audience that the analog sensibility that modern people have lost can overcome the dry reality and improve the qualitative value of life.
동북아시아문화학회 [The Association of North-east Asian Cultures]
설립연도
2000
분야
복합학>학제간연구
소개
동북아시아 문화의 다양성과 정체성을 연구 토론하고, 지역내 문화 교류의 다양한 모습을 연구하고 문화변동의 큰 틀을 집적함으로써 우리 민족 문화 및 상대 민족의 문화적 터전을 이해하여 문화공동체적 특성을 계발하고 상호 관련성의 강화를 유도하는 학술활동을 통해 동북아시아의 문화발전에 이바지함.