​From "Labyrinth of the Heart" to "Silent Burst":Spatial Narrative and Social Criticism in Xin Yukun's Films

From "Labyrinth of the Heart" to "Silent Burst":Spatial Narrative and Social Criticism in Xin Yukun's Films

KONG Jie

(1.Northwest Normal University, Lanzhou, Gansu 730000)

Abstract:  This paper takes Xin Yukun's films "The Labyrinth of the Heart" and "SilentDetonation" as the research objects. By applying the theory of spatial narnarology andintegrating concepts such as Lefebour's "social space production" and Foucault's "heterotopha",it systematically analyzes the juxtaposition strategies, symbolic metaphors, and functionalalienation of urban and rural Spaces in the two films. Explore how spatial narrative has becomea core tool for deconstructing class contradictions, the collapse of patriarchal ethics and the predicaments of human nature in Chinese society. The research finds that Xin Yukun, throughthe deconstruction of the rural patriarchal space (ancestral halls, cemeteries, villages) and thecomparison with the urban-rural space (urban capital space, rural poverty space),has constructeda visualized social critical path, innovated the narrative logic of crime genre films, and formeda "spatial suspense creation paradigm". His works not only provide a model of spatial narrativeinnovation for suspense films and TV series(such as online dramas and micro-short dramas) inthe new media era, but also strengthen the social reflection value of genre films by focusing onthe social reality during the transitional period.

Keywords: Xin Yukun; Spatial narrative; Crime and suspense film , Heterotopia

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