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Madame Freedom Movie Analysis

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For any country, one’s culture is an important aspect. Culture can be portrayed in many different ways and one of those ways is what is seen on the big screen – cinema. Cinema changes and progresses as time goes on and what happens socially and politically in the state. Korean cinema experienced the transformation of the Korean family. The history of Korean cinema industry is considered to be dynamic as they were able to build the market from absolutely nothing to one of the biggest cinema industry in the world. Korea went under what is known as “compressed modernization” which was a time when every aspect of the society and culture was developing at such a fast pace and consistently changing. After the Korean war and due to the major economic …show more content…

This movie portrayed women in a different light that was not quite seen before. Previously it was known that Korea lived under strict patriarchy formulating gender roles for males and females. This film was released after the Korean War, which was a time where hundreds of people were suffering. It was also at this time that modernization was taking place and Western values and views were starting to appear in Korea. South Korea as well a lot of other Asian countries lived by Confucian values. Despite Confucianism losing most its power in the state, it still was a foundation for a lot of values and ethics that define social stability and hierarchy when it came to gender relations, work, and family life (Kim & Finch 43). Due to the rapid modernization and outcomes from the war, it slowly started to change men’s role in the hierarchy – it was not due to Korea’s own will or choice but external forces were imposing this change onto them. Madame Freedom is the story of a wife who starts to develop Westernized desires and eventually has an affair while still married to her husband, who is also having an affair with one of his students. After the destruction of the war in the 20th century, Korea was going through modernization and it was a time where women started to feel liberated and were comparatively free in society unlike the men who were slowly losing power as family heads. This is why films like Madame Freedom, showed women living out their desires and seen more liberated than ever before. Women who were oppressed under Confucian values previously started to express Westernized desires for luxury items and hobbies like dancing and enjoying themselves. The home as portrayed in this movie is an uncomfortable place caught between the patriarchal system and Westernization. Patriarchy was challenged due economic struggles like the I.M.F. crisis that took a drastic toll on many Asian countries,

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