Questioning ethical possibility: thigh slicing as ritual for the initiation of compassion and filial piety in Kim Ki-duk’s Pietà (2012)
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DOI: 10.1080/17564905.2019.1661653
Abstract: ABSTRACT Filial piety forms the core of human relations in Confucian morality. One form of filial piety is ‘filial cannibalism’, a term for incidents in which children offer their own flesh to their parents out… read more here.
Keywords: kim duk; compassion; thigh slicing; filial piety ... See more keywords