영화 『나는 약신이 아니다(我不是藥神)』의 중국 사회 재현 양상

Abstract

Dying to Survive is a rare case as a Chinese film which is a realist genre that combines commerciality and workability. This study sought to break away from the two-sided perception of the analysis framework of realism-nonrealism, which is an outside view of the movie, and dual confrontational perception by which analyzing the conflict structure represented in the Movie. Through this, the focus was on how the Dying to Survive represented China s multi-layered social space in the spatio-temporal context of Shanghai in the early 2000s, including actual events. In the process of adapting the actual events, the film constructed a conflict structure different from the actual events, but represented the conflict structure on the surface in multiple layers, revealing the tension and complementary relationship between a principle of law, rationality and compassion. The film then revealed the way compassion works by illuminating the Gray Area of the under-class society in depth narrative. Through this, it extensively reproduced Chinese society in the early 2000s, the background of the film, and at the same time acquired a roundabout criticism of the reality of China in 2018, when the film was screened. As a result, this film was able to overcome the simplification of the narrative and the typicality of characters pointed out as the limit of the genre film.