KMID : 0367320240350010098
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Journal of the Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 2024 Volume.35 No. 1 p.98 ~ p.100
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The Last Rise and Fall Shown to us by the Man Who Chose ¡°Swollen Foot¡±: The Film The Whale
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Son Jung-Woo
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Abstract
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The film The Whale goes beyond just depicting one aspect of the life of a morbidly obese man. As the audience watches Charlie, the main character who helplessly chose to live a morbidly obese life, we are compelled to reflect on what it means for ourselves to rise from the ground as we live in a gravitational field. Ultimately, this film is in line with director Darren Arnofsky¡¯s previous masterpiece, Black Swan.
While the Oedipus complex runs through both films, this film goes one step further than Black Swan to face head-on the theme of ¡°swollen foot,¡± which is the original meaning of Oedipus. Through this move, we realize the essence of the Oedipus complex?something more fundamental than castration anxiety?something that we have been missing.
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KEYWORD
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The Whale, Oedipus complex, Mytheme
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