현대 영화 속 남성성 탐구: 드러난 위기

### 현대 영화에서 남성성의 위기 분석하기
* 🎥 '아메리칸 싸이코', '파이트 클럽', '나이트 크롤러', '택시 드라이버', '드라이브' 등의 영화는 **현대의 남성성과 그 도전**에 대한 주제를 탐구합니다.
* 🤵 패트릭 베이트먼, 타일러 더든, 루 블룸, 트래비스 비클, 더 드라이버와 같은 캐릭터는 **순응, 사회적 기대, 자신의 이중 정체성**으로 인해 어려움을 겪습니다.
* 💥 이들은 **집단에 적응하거나, 소비주의에 반항하거나, 목적의식과 영웅심을 찾기 위해 극단적인 행동**을 보이기도 합니다.
* 💔 결국 이 캐릭터들은 **현실과 인간성을 잃거나 투쟁**으로 인해 비극적인 결과에 직면합니다.
* 🔄 이 영화에서 묘사된 남성성의 위기는 **자본주의와 소비주의 사회에서 많은 남성들이 직면한 어려움**을 반영합니다.
* 🌍 남성성의 개념은 끊임없이 변화하고 상황에 따라 달라지지만, **"현대성을 거부하고 남성성을 포용하되 인간성을 유지할 수 있는 한도 내에서만"** 남성성을 유지하는 것이 필수적입니다.
* 패트릭 베이트먼의 일상, 루 블룸의 직업 윤리, 트래비스 비클의 유머, 타일러 더든의 카리스마, 드라이버의 용맹함 등 이러한 캐릭터의 긍정적인 특성을 결합하면 **남성성의 이상**에 가까워질 수 있습니다.
* 📽 비슷한 주제를 다룬 영화를 더 보고 싶다면 매일 새로운 영화를 제공하는 큐레이션 스트리밍 서비스인 Mubi에서 **'굿 타임', '폴른 엔젤스', '어나더 라운드'**를 시청할 수 있습니다.

아메리칸 싸이코, 파이트 클럽, 나이트 크롤러, 택시 드라이버, 드라이브의 등장인물을 심층 분석하여 현대 사회에서 남성성의 위기를 탐구합니다.

this video is brought to you by movie get a whole month free at movie.com. Do cinema fight club has been warning us. The idea of what it means to be a man is destabilizing a modern society. Recently, a lot of characters have gained renewed interest among young men, calling them literally me. By analyzing those movies that dive deeper into the psyche of men, maybe we can get a grip on why men find them so relatable and understand the so-called crisis of masculinity. What does it mean to be a man in a modern age? Okay, let's start with the most important theme in American Psycho: conformity. Because at its core, that's what this movie is all about. Patrick Bateman is living a fancy lifestyle as an investment banker on Wall Street. He's living healthy, eating a balanced diet, and doing rigorous exercise routines every morning. He's applying thousands of layers of beauty products to craft the perfect version of himself. Why? Because he simply wants to fit in. I want to fit in down to the haircuts, the suits, the

business cards. It all shows that these men think they're individual and unique, but they aren't. However, the lyrics of the song Heres to the Square explains that it's okay to be normal because it's not just about the pleasures of conformity and the importance of trends. It's also a personal all right, that's got it there you see. In Fight Club, they don't like conformity that much. Gentlemen, welcome. Tyler Durden is the god of masculinity, trying to break the main character free from his conformance lifestyle and boring job. The narrator is suffering from insomnia and is obsessed with creating a self-image that is socially acceptable. Similar to Patrick Bateman, he doesn't really have a way to express himself in a society where everything is a copy of a copy of a copy. All he does to feel unique is turn to consumerism and buy furniture that he felt defined him best as a person. Director David Fincher said, We're designed to be hunters, and we're in a society of shopping. There's nothing to.

kill anymore. Nothing to fight, nothing to overcome, and nothing to explore in that societal emasculation. This everyman is created. Patrick Bateman and the narrator in Fight Club create consciously or unconsciously alter egos that allow them to exhibit their masculinity and escape a culture that no longer accepts such behavior. Not the only two characters that have been struggling with this duality of a man because in Nightcrawler, Taxi Driver, and Drive, the main characters are also on the verge of frenzy just like Patrick Bateman's urge to fit in. Both Travis Bickle and Lou Bloom are trying to fit into society by getting a regular job, but because they don't really have the premier education to fit this ideal of an office job, Travis starts working as a taxi driver late at night to deal with his insomnia. After Lou Bloom gets rejected, he starts night crawling as well and finds a way to make money out of filming crime scenes. There are actually many parallels between these two movies. Not only is the poster of

nightcrawler, an obvious homage to Taxi Driver. Both characters are also very ambitious and goal-oriented men that are capable of doing anything, and I mean anything, to eventually reach their end goal. Lou lives in modern-day LA in a time where everyone is obsessed with personal gain and success. This causes him to create a form of predatory masculinity, hunting down his prey like a lone wolf every night in order to film the crime scenes and sell them to the news stations. His greed is good mentality makes him persistent and uses this to become the top predator in his business. He is kind and respectful for the sake of social acceptance but very narcissistic and tunnel-visioned for his own financial gain. Lou Bloom literally goes to that animal state of masculinity and releases the beast within man. He even looks like a hungry predator that uses his manipulative instincts to trap and catch his prey. Similarly, Travis Bickle drives around the dangerous and dirty streets of New York City at night. Travis is a forgotten

and ignored victim of the working class through the rise of capitalism in big cities. One day, he hopes to clean it all up and become the hero of the city. All the animals come out at night. Someday a real reign will come and watch all this scum off the streets. Travis feels lost by the city life, and after getting rejected by Betsy, he starts to cut and pace together what he believes is a masculine heroic identity. He starts training like a soldier, handling guns like a cowboy, and dressing up like a veteran - all pop cultural elements that form his idea of a hyper-masculine hero that'll be there for the people. But in reality, he starts to become ultra-violent and reckless. This hyper-masculinity is one that relies on ancient ideas of heroic behaviors, such as being a knight or cowboy that rescues princesses and fights the bad guys, which makes Travis live a life between fact and fiction - a walking contradiction. You saying that about me? Well, who else would I be talking about?

Travis gets caught up in this duality of a man, which is slowly sending him down the wrong path. This brings us to the movie Drive because similar to Taxi Driver, it involves the notion of portraying the masculinity of a hero versus being a real hero. The driver is a stunt man and mechanic by day, but at night he works as an independent getaway driver for criminals. A stunt driver's job is to literally maintain the illusion of the hero in a fictional film, and the driver therefore spends a good time of his life pretending to be a hero. In an interview, Ryan Gosling adds, I think Driver is somebody who's seen too many movies, and he's made himself the hero of his own action film. He's just kind of lost in the mythology of Hollywood. But as soon as the driver meets the perfect girl, Irene, it gets very interesting, and a crossover between Travis Bickle becomes more apparent. The driver starts to feel pressure because of his contradictory lifestyle. On the one hand, he doesn't want to take

part in the patriarchy of the criminal world and chooses to be a silent, emotionless, and nameless character. On the other hand, he's repressing his humanity, but meeting with Irene is his way of reclaiming it. However, it's not that easy to escape from the criminal world. My hands are a little dirty. It's all mine, just like Travis Bickle, who's surrounded by impure and evil beings, becomes obsessed with saving a 12-year-old prostitute named Iris. The driver feels a sense of protectiveness for Irene as well and will do everything, even resorting to extreme violence, to protect Irene and her child because it is exactly the purity and innocence that both of these characters have lost that they are now trying to rescue and protect. Where Travis Bickle and the driver differ is that Travis wants to leave his mark on this world, but the driver just wants to be happy and the same for his loved ones. However, they both have the opportunity to become a real hero.

opposed to being only a faceless and imaginary one. But as suggested with the lyrics of the soundtrack in Drive, a real hero is also a real human being, and that's something all of these characters have lost on the way. Patrick Bateman's obsession with trying to fit in caused him to express himself in extreme manners, and in the end, made him lose touch with humanity. I had to. She almost got away. I mean, I guess I'm a pretty sick guy. Fight Club turned into a self-operating group with a cold following that now wants to overthrow all power structures in society, caused by the narrator's alter-ego. Lublum's mind is poisoned by capitalist society and the media turned him into a beast, leaving every moral code for the sake of money. In the end, Taxi Driver's past serving in the Vietnam War combined with his insomnia causes him to lose touch with reality and leads to his descent into madness. And the driver, well, maybe he is the real hero after all, but his suppressed

emotions alienated him so much that in the end he had to sacrifice everything he had fought for. All of these movies delve into the crisis of masculinity caused by conformity in a capitalist and consumerist world. It only makes perfect sense that young men who are navigating through the world would find solace in watching these movies, as it represents an extreme example of what they experience on a day-to-day basis. This may seem unhealthy to some, but it offers men a piece of media that they can hold close in a world that so often shies away from representing these topics in a way that isn't explicitly villainizing. You're a real cowboy, that's nice. So to come back to my first question, what is masculinity in the modern age? Well, they often say reject modernity and embrace masculinity, but that is only as long as you can maintain your humanity. You look lonely. What it means to be a man will be a forever changing concept depending on the time and place you live in on this world, but for now, what I think is that

if we were to take the good characteristics of all these men, we can create an unstoppable character with the morning routine and style of Patrick Bateman, the work ethic of Lou Bloom, the humor of Travis Bickle, the appeal of Tyler Durden, and the bravery of the Driver. I think we'll get pretty close to what it means to be a man. If you want to watch and discover more movies like these, you can check out Good Time, Fallen Angels, and Another Round, which are all streaming on Mubi right now. Mubi is a curated streaming service and a place to watch beautiful cinema every day. Mubi premieres a new film from iconic directors to emerging authors, so there's always a wide variety of choices. With Mubi, each and every film is hand-selected, so it's like your own personal film festival streaming anytime, anywhere. I work anytime, anywhere. We work Jewish holidays anytime, anywhere. You can try Mubi free for 30 days at mubi.com. Do cinema, that's mubi.com. Do cinema for an entire month of great

Why Men Love "Literally Me" Characters

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아메리칸 싸이코, 파이트 클럽, 나이트 크롤러, 택시 드라이버, 드라이브 같은 영화는 남성의 순응과 사회에 적응하기 위한 투쟁이라는 주제를 다루고 있습니다.

이 영화 속 인물들은 특정 남성성에 대한 이상에 부합해야 한다는 압박감에 시달리며 내적 갈등을 겪고 세상에서 자신의 자리를 찾기 위해 필사적으로 노력합니다.

아메리칸 사이코와 파이트 클럽의 감독들은 전통적인 남성성을 억압하는 사회를 묘사하며 주인공들이 진정한 자아를 표현하기 위해 분신을 만들도록 강요합니다.

마찬가지로 나이트 크롤러, 택시 드라이버, 드라이브는 사회적으로 인정받고 성공하기 위해 극단적인 방법을 택하는 주인공을 묘사하며 현대 남성성의 지속적인 위기를 반영합니다.

'나이트 크롤러'와 '택시 드라이버'의 약탈적 남성성 묘사

루 블룸과 트래비스 비클의 캐릭터는 목표를 집요하게 추구하는 야심가이자 약탈적인 남성으로 묘사됩니다.

루는 개인적인 이익을 위해 범죄 현장의 영상을 촬영하는 교묘한 전술을 사용하는 현대 LA의 약탈적 남성성을 구현합니다.

반면, '택시 드라이버'의 트래비스 비클은 영웅적인 인물이 되기 위해 지나치게 남성적인 정체성을 채택하여 결국 극도로 폭력적이고 무모해지는, 방황하고 무시당하는 개인을 나타냅니다.

두 캐릭터 모두 권력과 의미를 추구하는 과정에서 현실과 허구의 경계를 모호하게 만드는 남성성의 어두운 면을 상징합니다.

"드라이브"와 "택시 드라이버"에 나타난 남성성의 이중성

영화 "드라이브"는 "택시 드라이버"와 마찬가지로 영웅을 연기하는 것과 진짜 영웅이 되는 것 사이의 갈등을 탐구합니다.

스턴트맨이자 범죄자들의 도주 차량 운전사로 이중생활을 하는 운전사는 자신의 정체성과 사랑하는 사람들을 보호하려는 욕구 사이에서 갈등합니다.

이 캐릭터의 여정은 잃어버린 순수함과 순수함을 구하고 지키려는 '택시 드라이버'의 트래비스 비클과 닮았지만, 동기는 다릅니다.

자본주의 사회에서 남성성의 위기

영화 '드라이브', '아메리칸 싸이코', '파이트 클럽', '택시 드라이버'의 주인공들은 모두 자본주의 세계에서 인간성을 잃고 고군분투합니다.

이 영화들은 비슷한 경험을 겪고 있는 젊은 남성들의 공감을 불러일으키며 남성성의 위기를 반영합니다.

이 영화들은 이러한 주제를 노골적으로 악당화하지 않으면서도 독특하게 묘사하여 관객에게 공감대를 형성합니다.

궁극의 남성 캐릭터 만들기 & Mubi에서 비슷한 영화 탐색하기

패트릭 베이트먼의 아침 루틴, 루 블룸의 직업 윤리, 트래비스 비클의 유머, 타일러 더든의 매력, 더 드라이버의 용감함 등 이상적인 남자의 모습을 볼 수 있는 영화입니다.

굿 타임, 폴른 엔젤스, 어나더 라운드도 언급된 영화와 비슷한 추천 영화로, Mubi에서 스트리밍할 수 있습니다.

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