"Appetency" And "Social Norm"

The relationship between appetency and social norm is complicated. Appetency is the animal instinct of humankind, while social norm is the side of humans' sociality. It is difficult to separate them apart completely because they are born as twins and always conflict in the life. Many directors are likely to express the un-comfortableness through their conflict. So is Ki-duk Kim, the famous Korea director.When watching his movies, we feel painful for his attitude to the appetency and the social norm. Ki-duk Kim can not make a choice between them. He is in a dilemma. This attitude is the focus we discus in the paper.The paper is divided into 4 parts. The first part is about the history of Ki-duk Kim and his movies. Then the next two parts discuss how can Ki-duk Kim express his attitude about appetency and social norm, especially a clear conception of "appetency", "social norm" and "sense of guilt". The concept of "sense of guilt" is an important point of this paper. People always pay attention to express how the appetency accepts defeat under the strong press of social norm, while why the social norm has such great power usually be neglected. But in this paper, we will give an explanation. Based on this , the last part comes to a conclusion: the attitude of dilemma expressed in the movies made the audience feel uncomfortableAppetency and social norm both have their values. The paper points out it is the recognition of social norm in life that makes humans feel not free, but not the social norm itself.