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Cinema Therapy to Improve the Respect for Human Rights -Focused on If You Were Me: Anima Vision

  • Korean Language & Literature
  • 2010, (73), pp.261-288
  • Publisher : Korean Language & Literature
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature

Il-Soo Yoon 1

1강원대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

If You Were Me: Anima Vision, which was planned and made by National Human Rights Commission of Korea is designed to point out the sense of discrimination, and to improve the sensitivity of human rights which differenciates between the difference and the discrimination. It is made under the consideration that it is necessary to have a cultural approach for the improvement of the sensitivity. The Commission shows a strong will of the improvement by way of the catch phrase, 'Power to renew Korea'. Therefore, it can be said that the animated film has a high effectiveness as a text for Cinema Therapy studies to improve the respect of human rights in view of its subject, character setting, drawing technique, color. Cinema Therapy generally proceeds in sequence of 'Warming-up→Watching the movie→Survey→Discussion․Presentation. As the omnibus-formatted text of this study program gives an opportunity to think about the aspects of the abuse of human rights which happened in the various fields, to watch the movie itself becomes Warming-up. In particular, Nap deals with the disability discrimination, The Woman's House deals with the discrimination of gender role, Woman of Too Fat and Big Bone deals with that of appearance, Bike Trip deals with that of foreign worker, Be a Man deals with that of educational background. Animal Farm comprises all omnibus stories in that it deals with the minor social weak. Therefore, it is used as a main text for the making-out of the questionaire to research the opinion concerned with the respect of human rights of the participants. It is composed of the respondents' opinion about the film's contents, their experience of being the social string and the social weak, the view of life. The result of putting the responses together shows that the desire of belonging is strong, and that there are many discriminative behaviors for the minor social weak, such as a transfer student, a mixed-bloods, the disabled person. Also, it is found out that the behavior of making the social weak into a person of otherness results from the sense of difference, and that the will to live together by the understanding for other person's position through this Cinema Therapy is revealed strongly.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.