A Sun (2019) | Cultural Discursive Analysis 【陽光普照】

The Taiwanese film "A Sun" (2019) 【陽光普照】lends itself to multiple analyses. Here, I offer my cultural discursive analysis for two poignant scenes.

TRIGGER WARNING: verbal (and mildly visual) reference to mental health, suicide, and murder

SPOILER ALERT: description of the plot and its analysis, highly recommend watching the film first

DISCLAIMER: all movie content and music are not mine and belong to the creators of A Sun; analytical framework and instruction is cited at the end; all interpretations are my own

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Project for the class "How Audiences Experience the Ethical/Aesthetic Assumptions of Stories: Cultural Discursive Analyses" from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Spring 2021

Citation: Willig, C. (2013) Chapter 11: Foucauldian discourse analysis. In Introducing qualitative research in psychology (3rd Ed.). New York, NY: McGraw Hill, pp. 129-142.