〈모래시계〉는 1995년 64.5%의 높은 시청률을 기록한 SBS 드라마로, 지상파 TV에서 ‘5·18 민주화운동’, ‘동일방직 사건’, ‘YH 사건’, ‘삼청교육대’ 등 1970-80년대의 주요한 현대사를 배경으로 피해/고통받은 개인들을 가시화한다. 본고에서는〈모래시계〉를 1970-80년대 국가폭력으로 피해/고통받은 개인의 미덕을 과잉된 감정으로 재현하는 멜로드라마로 가정하며, 87년 체제의 정치적, 윤리적 공백(위기)을 배경으로 강렬한 파토스가 촉발되는 양상에 주목했다. 〈모래시계〉는 1970-1980년대를 배경으로 가난과 반공주의 등의 사회적 차별을 경험하는 두 인물이 국가 폭력에 연루, 공모하면서 피해와 위험, 적대와 경쟁 속에 놓이는 고통의 역사를 재현한다. 태수/우석은 5·18 민주화운동에서 시민군/진압군으로 대립하거나 삼청교육대에서 피해자/조력자로 배치된다. 두 인물의 대립은 국가권력을 담지하는 시점에 적대적 관계로 전환되어 태수가 신체/폭력/사랑으로, 우석은 이성/비폭력/법으로 재현되다가 결국 태수를 실패/처벌/희생되는 것으로 끝난다.〈모래시계〉는 이처럼 현대사에 연루된 개인의 고통/희생을 가시화하면서 대중의 파토스를 촉발시켜 낸다. 그런데 87년 체제 직후 법정립적/법보전적 폭력을 합리화하면서 처벌/희생이 다시 반복하자 혜린은 87년 체제의 불완전성을 슬픔의 정동으로 전치시켜 내며 대중적 애도를 매개한다. 요컨대 〈모래시계〉는 윤리적 · 사회적 · 정치적 불안을 배경으로 ‘87년 체제’의 도래와 함께 잊혀지거나 외면된 가치에 대한 애도를 멜로드라마의 문법으로 재현하며 87년 체제 이후에 민주주의적 정동을 소환한다.
In this paper, 〈Sandglass〉 was analyzed as a melodrama embodied in the 87regime. 〈Sandglass〉 was analyzed as a melodrama embodied to 87 The film had a high audience rating of 64.5% when it was aired in 1995. It not only reproduced the 5·18 Democratization Movement for the first time on terrestrial TV, but also represented the affective structure of young people who “survived” through modern history of the 1970s and 1980s, including ‘DongilTextile demonstration’, ‘YH demonstration’, and the ‘Samchung Reeducation Camp’. In 〈Sandglass〉, if Tae-soo is characterized by body/violence/love, Woo-seok is characterized by reason/nonviolence/law. In the process of the two characters leaving their hometown and moving toward the achievement of desire, differences and confrontations become visible. For example, in the 5・18 Democratization Movement, they were confronted by suppression forces and civic forces, or they were located as military assistants/victims at the ‘Samchung Reeducation Camp’. The hostile confrontation between the two character began in earnest from the time Woo-seok became a prosecutor, and Woo-seok, who represents reason/nonviolence/law, punishes Taesoo, who represents physical/violence/love. Tae-soo"s death is also a punishment according to the existing legal order(‘rechtserhaltend Gewalt’), but it was sacrificed for the time to come. In other words, it is not ‘rechtserhaltend Gewalt(violence)’, but ‘rechtsetzende Gewalt(violence)’. ‘1987’, where Taesoo"s execution is carried out, is not a time background, but a teleological time called ‘87 regime’. Woo Seok"s willful attitude in his argument on the death penalty makes it clear that Tae-soo is a private individual, but also a symbol of an era. In 〈Sandglass〉, Tae-soo is a person who experiences, witnesses, or is involved in state violence in the 1980s. Pain, violence, wounds, and love in the 1980s are recorded through the eyes, ears, and wounded body. In other words, Tae-soo is a person who experienced the reality of the country in the 1980s through wounds and violence, and is an expression of the 1980s condensed by wounds and violence. What made Woo-Seok a victim of Tae-soo is Woo-Seok"s (elite male) will to judge the order before 1987. However, Hyerin reveals that Woo Seok"s judgment may also be a discourse of ‘87 regime’ that considers the confrontational structure of the 1980s/90s. Hyelin"s voice is another voice that embodies the ambivalent affective structure of the 1990s that considers ‘87 regime’.