Quenching Annihilation: Exploring Cinematic Space in the Crime Film Pieta

Abstract

Pieta is a South Korean film directed by Kim Ki-duk, featuring a crime story about love and redemption between a mother and her son, starring Jeong-jin Lee and Min-su Jo. The film narrates the story of a “mother” and “son” without any blood relation, aligning with Director Kim Ki-duk’s consistent thematic choices: love and redemption, death and destruction. This article focuses on the analysis of the audio-visual language of Pieta, attempting to examine the film’s narrative space from the perspective of audio-visual language. It primarily explores the functional forms of space, analyzing the construction of physical, mental, and social spaces within the film’s scenes.