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Two Types of Post-human in Recent Korean SF Films : Focusing on (2021), (2021) (최근 한국영화 속 포스트-휴먼의 두 가지 양상: <승리호>(2021), <서복>(2021)을 중심으로)

  • Yoo, Jae-eung;Lee, Hyun-Kyung
    • The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.379-384
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    • 2022
  • The year 2021 is a monumental year for the history of Korean cinema that inferiority of the sci-fi genre, by the appearance of two sci-fi blockbuster films- produced by Netflix and produced by TVing-at the same time. Coincidentally, both of movies are sci-fi films which appear post-human such as robot and clone. As can be seen in 『Frankenstein』 story, the progenitor of science fictions, the mankind have imagined beings similar to humen or post-human who are another human being for a long time. deals with the unusual subject matter of a space scavenger and a space janitor, and the main character is a robot that very familiar with human. is the story of a man who lives for a limited life protects and accompanies a clone named Seobok who was created as a test subject. This film deals with the philosophical themes like death and eternal life through the existential concerns of two characters. use Korean Shinpa -Korean specific senimental code-sentiment on narrative, and has the character of a road movie set in Korea's geographical space.