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Hong Sang-soo's films resemble mountains with a lot of mountaineering trails and a building with a lot of entrances. In this study, one methodology has been applied to approach Hong Sang-soo's texts through surrealism and dreams.

Surrealism meets the core of art in a sense that it searches subconsciousness and seeks illogic. Even though Director Hong Sang-soo has created his pieces in Chung-moo-ro, he accommodates surrealism cinematically regardless of the risk of lacking communications with the public. There have not been sufficient full-scale discussions on the relations between surrealism and Hong Sang-soo's texts. His texts are connected to surrealism in three aspects; the titles, the usage of collage and the scenes of dreams.

When it comes to giving titles, he named some of his films in the connotation of surrealism ; 〈Woman Is The Future Of Man〉 from a poetic phrase of a surrealism poet, Louis Aragon, and 〈Virgin Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors〉 from 〈The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors〉 by Marchel Duchamp.

Collage can be achieved by the arrays of foreign images such as “the accidental encounter with an umbrella and a sewing machine on the dissecting table.” The scene of eating cake at the house of mourning from 〈The Day A Pig Fell Into The Well〉 is a typical scene of collage. The scenes of dreams are a cinematic alteration of surrealists’ automatic writing in which the instincts comes ahead of the refinement. In Hong Sang-soo’s films, dreams appear either in a scene to show resentment or as a separate text to make an outcome from the distortion and substitution of suppressed things. An example of the former explanation is a dream of satisfying resentments in 〈Woman Is The Future Of Man〉, and the latter one shows in Bo-kyung's dream in 〈The Day A Pig Fell Into The Well〉.

The scenes of dreams coincide the purpose of expanding the spectrum of cinematic expressions and setting a caged spirit free by actively embracing the dream world of surrealism. Hong Sang-soo's texts break into two sectors of revealing desires and distorting suppressed desires. The former sector is directly connected to texts and the latter one gets independent as a separate text to form 'mise-en abyme of a film in a film' and, at the same time, ‘is concluded as double images’ as well. Both mise-en abyme and collage are added up to become a dual image with multiple meanings.

Hong Sang-soo's originality relies partially on descriptive alterations and aesthetic achievements through the sequence of dreams.