부산대학교 도서관

Lou Ye's film Blind Massage (2014), a director representing the sixth generation of China, is attempting to visualize non-visual senses-touch, which is rare in video content that values visual expression. Therefore, this paper closely analyzed the “visualization of touch” shown in Blind Massage, focusing on “chiasme”, the main concept of the late Merleau-Ponty’s theory, and the notion of subject based on it. First of all, we looked at how various techniques, such as the crossing of handheld techniques, various shorts, and focus out, dramatically reproduce ‘touch’, not ‘visual’, and how characters without ‘eye’s sight’ replace the sense of sight with ‘feeling hands’ with non-visual senses. Merleau-Ponty defines that even vision has tactile characteristics due to the “L’entrelacs-le chiasme” of “body-flesh(chair)” between the subject and the object. Director Lou Ye maximized the tactile nature of this perspective through the movie Blind Massage, thereby successfully embodying the visually impaired character as a subject who perceives, thinks, and expresses through tactile senses. In particular, the expression of “body-flesh” through ‘dance’ raises the problem of another language paradigm that is not visually confirmed but visually sensed. This new “body-flesh” language paradigm not only affects the visually impaired and non-visual people in the movie, but also affects the audience watching the movie. In that sense, director Lowe’s cinematic attempt can be evaluated as an impressive revelation in the media’s ‘visualization of touch’ in the future.