Aesthetic Study On Kim Ki-duk’s Films

Among the contemporary Asian films, a Korean director Kim Ki-duk’s films are always debatable and controversial. His films are repeatedly acknowledged at international film festivals, however, suffer from the tremendous pressure from public opinion, especially the rejection of the national media and the audience. This extreme gap also appears in comments about their movies. Nevertheless, the director sticks to his ideas in between art and business. Since Kim Ki-duk started directing films in1996, he has engraved eye-catching labels of individualism in each of his film. In his stories, figures’decision-making and film mirror language have a unique artistic appeal. This paper attempts a unique analysis of Kim Ki-duk’s film from the film narratology and aesthetic point of view. Despite the specific analysis, Kim Ki-duk’s films tend to be regarded as a perfective aspect by summarizing the main features of his films. This paper focuses on narrative technique on repeatability and variability, the film camera language, as well as aesthetics of death embodied in the movies.In view of the previous research of Kim Ki-duk’s movies takes focus on the marginalize’stories and the characters, this article trie; to make the oretical breakthrough basing on the former research and analyse art features and aesthetic value of Kim Ki-duk’s movies more systematically and thoroughly.Based on this point, the article sections are as follows. The introduction will introduce the motivation of this study, the purpose, object and methodology. This section will also elaborate the reason why the author chose Kim Ki-duk’s films as the subject, as well as summarize existing research and research information.The first chapter will briefly describe the director’s film career, as well as an overview of his narrative films shot so far. During sorting out the films which will also be overviewed is psychological changes in the director’s art creation.In the second chapter Kim Ki-duk films’ unique narrative elements will be analyzed by the methods of film narratology. In the third chapter, lens Language and special flavour of Kim Ki-duk’s films will be analyzed mainly from these aspects:cinematograph objective, movie space, frames, artistic conception, symbol and metaphor.In the fourth chapter, incising from the connection between death and aesthetic perception in art, I will observe the unique perspective on death and its profound meaning in Kim Ki-duk films in aspects of aesthetics of death.The last chapter is the summary of previous chapters, discussing the global and holistic broad of Kim Ki-duk films’narrative technique and aesthetics value, while noting that the important achievements of the film in art.