‘탈냉전’ 시대 스파이물에 대한 연구

This article examines aspects and problems which Infernal Affairs presents in the early 2000s of Hong Kong in relation to the spy discourse and its research on the transformative process of the Cold War regime. The structure of spies, who both side of police and gangster sends, is full of suggestions for people living in the “post-Cold War” era when tension and relaxation were intertwined. The spies of both sides appear as individual at risk who tries to find ways of resolving an identity confusion, weaving the narrative of identity recovery and that of identity fraud/laundering. It is not all-around hero such as James Bond from Western spy movie, not the tragic hero such as protagonist of Hong Kong gangster movies from 1980s to 1990s at the years of detente, but the advent of new spy character in the “post-Cold War” era. The Spies who were sent by both sides are result of situation surrounding Hong Kong in 2000s, when simultaneously deploys the process of the post colonialism, nationalism, and the post-Cold War. Furthermore they are characters who consider and take issues on its complexity of situation. They confronts the issue of nationalism and post-colonialism respectively at the same time through the post-Cold War era, in company with problem of the confused identity. The situation of the “post-Cold War” enables the narrative of spies of both sides to present simultaneously. Furthermore it allows the narrative of spy who was sent by gangster to be more attractive. Infernal Affairs investigates whether people can consider this complex and multifaceted aspects from the various angle, while focusing on the overlapped and mingled identity. Whereas spy discourse at the age of Cold War was mobilized for the identity politics such as “becoming the nation”, the spy film of Hong Kong in the “post-Cold War” era displaces spy discourse and related identity politics at the age of “Cold War” and relocates the imaginary relation between nation and spy.