<기아계층의 저주>와 <사랑의 바보짓>에 나타난 미국 가족과 남성 (American Family and Men in Curse of the Starving Class and Fool for Love)

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This paper examines American family and men in two movies, Curse of the Starving Class and Fool for Love, which were made on the basis of Sam Shepard's family plays. Partly reflecting the writer’s autobiographic life story, Sam Shepard shows the troubles and sufferings of young men’s journey toward adulthood. In Curse of the Starving Class, Wesley, a young son of the family, feeling resentment and compassion for his parents who are antagonistic to each other, serves as the conservator of the farm and makes efforts to prevent from family disintegration. But Wesley’s parents, Weston and Ella, both scheme behind each other’s back to sell the property. The theme of starvation pervades the movie through family’s repeated obsession over the refrigerator. Opening and closing its door repeatedly, the family reveal the psychological poverty and emotional distress. What is noteworthy and symbolic is a kind of storytelling between Wesley and Ella about a cat and an eagle fighting against each other. Like the story, their relationship is torn by sharing no experience as a family.
Fool for Love presents the issues of love and struggle between estranged lovers, Eddie and May. Eddie came to May's stark motel room in the desert to persuade her to go to the countryside with him. She still loves him but also hates him because of his relationship with another woman. By the end of the movie, it is revealed that their love between May and Eddie is an incestuous relationship between half-siblings, which causes family disintegration and the suicide of Eddie's mother.
In Fool for Love, there is a special character called old man who appears as the absent father in the stories of his offsprings like a ghostlike presence. His love between two women causes his wife's agonizing death. Illusion or illusion of love which the old man is obsessed with, is juxtaposed with the plot of his son and daughter's love, and makes this movie more impressive. Implying that love can't be lost at any price, Shepard succeeds in building a sur-realistic or psycho-realistic movie, with the help of the violence and illusion in Fool for Love, But the male characters’ attitudes toward love and their lives on the basis of illusion, surely bring about not only the sufferings of identity crisis but also the disintegration of the family.

영어초록

This paper examines American family and men in two movies, Curse of the Starving Class and Fool for Love, which were made on the basis of Sam Shepard's family plays. Partly reflecting the writer’s autobiographic life story, Sam Shepard shows the troubles and sufferings of young men’s journey toward adulthood. In Curse of the Starving Class, Wesley, a young son of the family, feeling resentment and compassion for his parents who are antagonistic to each other, serves as the conservator of the farm and makes efforts to prevent from family disintegration. But Wesley’s parents, Weston and Ella, both scheme behind each other’s back to sell the property. The theme of starvation pervades the movie through family’s repeated obsession over the refrigerator. Opening and closing its door repeatedly, the family reveal the psychological poverty and emotional distress. What is noteworthy and symbolic is a kind of storytelling between Wesley and Ella about a cat and an eagle fighting against each other. Like the story, their relationship is torn by sharing no experience as a family.
Fool for Love presents the issues of love and struggle between estranged lovers, Eddie and May. Eddie came to May's stark motel room in the desert to persuade her to go to the countryside with him. She still loves him but also hates him because of his relationship with another woman. By the end of the movie, it is revealed that their love between May and Eddie is an incestuous relationship between half-siblings, which causes family disintegration and the suicide of Eddie's mother.
In Fool for Love, there is a special character called old man who appears as the absent father in the stories of his offsprings like a ghostlike presence. His love between two women causes his wife's agonizing death. Illusion or illusion of love which the old man is obsessed with, is juxtaposed with the plot of his son and daughter's love, and makes this movie more impressive. Implying that love can't be lost at any price, Shepard succeeds in building a sur-realistic or psycho-realistic movie, with the help of the violence and illusion in Fool for Love, But the male characters’ attitudes toward love and their lives on the basis of illusion, surely bring about not only the sufferings of identity crisis but also the disintegration of the family.

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