The Christian Faith Writing In Korean Movies And TV Dramas

Since the Christianity has penetrated into Western movies and has a great impact on Eastern movies, it has a greater and deeper connection with the art and cultural fields, whether directly or indirectly, visibly or invisibly. With the rapid spreading of the Christianity in Korea, the Christianity spirit has widely traced in all aspects of Korean society. It has become an important fact that changes the Korean spiritual outlook. The high industrialization of Korea, which makes the Korean people feel anxiety and solitude, also accelerated its people searching for the spiritual homeland with the religious faith. We can find more works with Christian Faith in Korean movies and TV dramas, which is one of the expression ways of art. The encountering of Korean movies and TV dramas creational fields with the Christian spiritual resources brings not the ossification of the theme, but the vital force and deep thinking of human nature. Unfortunately, today's research mostly takes mass media, roots of theory, directors and cultural industry as the objects. We can seldom see the illustration of specific works with the Christian Faith, Anyhow, because it is limited and difficult.This thesis, taking the relation between Christianity and western movies as research model and the research achievements as the base, presents us with the Christian"sin"and"beauty","blessings"and"salvation","love"and"tolerate"in Korean movies and TV dramas. In one hand, the author shows us the works'real value and meanings with a flesh view. On the other hand, the author leads us to explore the wideness and depth of human spirit.This thesis can be divided into five chapters. Chapterâ… is a brief introduction. This chapter can be sub-divided into three parts, including the development and spreading of Christianity in Korea, the effect towards Korean movies brought by Christianity and the Christian"sin"and"beauty"in Korean movies and TV dramas. Chapterâ…¡,â…¢andâ…£are the detailed appreciation of three important directors Chan-wook Park, Chang-dong Lee and Ki-duk Kim's pieces with three aspects, the metaphor of salvation, the alienation of faith and salvation of sexual love. Chapterâ…¤is a discussion of the real existing faith under light. The light is an important and integrant element of movie just as it is in the Christianity. This chapter takes some specific movies and the existing living hardship in advance, expressing that the"sin"could only be find under light and reflecting that the human beings could only get closer to the supreme truth and virtue and beauty by questioning, inquiring and seeking.