This film shot by Li Cangdong is a suspense film, cannes is a big hit, full of 4 points, it took 3.8 points
Although the introduction of the national version has been deleted, it does not affect the whole, but there are still viewers who feel more and more "boring" and bored after watching the movie.
The Douban score slipped from 8.8 to 8.0.
No scale, no violence, no topic, no dramatic conflict,
The whole story relies on the accumulation of lines in the clouds and fog - this is the story of the growth of boys, the unspeakable "sex",
After the bullets flew for two years, I also decided to talk to you again, trying to unveil the mysterious veil left by Li Cangdong
- "Burning"
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After the millennium, Seoul, South Korea.
On that day, zhong xiu, an unemployed vagrant, was walking down the street carrying goods and accidentally met his childhood friend Emi.
Emi had become beautiful, and he could barely recognize her.
Like friends they hadn't seen for a long time, Hye-mi and Jong-so ran to a small corner tower where no one was there, smoking cigarettes and reminiscing about the past.
Emi asked him what he was busy doing after graduation.
Zhong Xiu said that now he works part-time, runs goods, and writes articles.
Like all Cinderella, Emi is beautiful but an ordinary person.
On weekdays, I shoot commercials, work as models, work as waiters to make a living, and in my spare time, I also learn "pantomime" performances.
She performed such a pantomime (no physical performance) for Zhong Xiu: she slowly peeled off an orange out of thin air, then put one petal into her mouth, and then spit it out...
Zhong Xiu couldn't understand it, and he was busy smirking.
Emi said thoughtfully, "You know what? The Bushids in the Karahari Desert of Africa have heard that there are two kinds of hungry people, hungry people, in English, hunger, hunger, small hunger and big hunger
Little hunger is the general hungry person, the big hunger is the person who is hungry for the meaning of life, why do we live, what is the meaning of life, people who explore this problem all day long, they think that kind of person is really hungry."
Zhong Xiu did not understand, or smirked, Hye-mi did not talk anymore, asked him if he could help himself take care of the cat, she was going to travel to Africa.
Zhong Xiu nodded, and said yes.
After three rounds of drinking, it is intoxicating.
Emi falls asleep, and Jong-soo is standing by.
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The next day, Jong-so comes to Meet Emi's house by bus, and he wants to take care of her cat for her.
Emi waited at the platform for Jong-so's arrival.
Along the way, the two greeted each other and cared for each other.
The road is not long, and in a few moments we will reach Emi's house.
Like all young people who dream and live in the North, Emi lives in a rental house in Seoul.
The room was very cold, only the reflected light from the glass window of the Nanshan Observation Deck could shine into the room every day, but the time was too short...
Zhong Xiu simply listened from the side, but Emi suddenly asked her, how do you think I look.
The girl is very active, desire or like, lonely man and widow in the same room, two people just happened...
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After that night, Zhong Xiu returned home, packed some luggage, and went to Emi's house to help her take care of her cat.
But Zhong Xiu couldn't find the cat.
A few months later, the phone rang, and it was Emi on the other end of the phone.
Emi asked him to pick her up, and she was right near the airport now.
On this trip to Africa, Emi lost a lot of weight and became more beautiful, but she also brought back a boyfriend, Ben, who said that she met at Nairochemical Airport
They were Comrades Nerohua, and when there was an explosion outside the airport, there were only two Koreans, and they spent four uneasy days together.
After the greeting, Emi said that she was hungry and wanted to eat the fat sausage pot.
Ben said, I just know where the best fat sausage pot is in Seoul, South Korea?
Zhong Xiu had no opinion, and the threesome began like this.
At the table, Ben hears zhong xiu writing and asks him which writer he likes.
"Faulkner, William Faulkner, reading Faulkner's novels sometimes seems to be reading my own stories," zhong Xiu replied
Zhong Xiu asked Ben what you did.
Ben said: Can't say it and you don't understand, for me, work is play, play is work, there is not much difference.
The people who can say this are either street skaters who eat and wait for death, or they are rich second generations...
Ben clearly falls into the latter category.
His car is a Porsche, he lives in a luxury apartment, and his daily travel is also a luxury brand, but he has never said that he has money
Nor did he say where his money came from.
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One day, Ben invites Emi and Jong-soo to play together at his house.
It was the first time Zhong Xiu had seen such a beautiful and luxurious house, and everywhere was luxury and direct sunlight.
In the house where he lived, it seemed that the sun would not take such care of him, let alone luxuries...
After dinner, Ben invited the two to meet his friends.
His friends all looked like rich people, but how could the class gap be crossed?
Ben's friends, watching Emi and Jong-so always have a different look, when Emi dances, they look at her like a monkey
Zhong Xiu didn't speak, and Ben just kept that smiling face forever.
One day, Ben drove his Porsche with Emi to Jong-soo's house, who lived in the countryside.
Drinking small wine, smoking marijuana, chatting about the sky, telling the past, watching the sunset...
Marijuana, which people can never touch, is a psychedelic agent of the spirit.
Emi took off her blouse and danced in the sunset, but the sunset was fleeting, and Emi danced and cried.
Life seems to be gone at this moment...
That day, while Emi was drinking and falling asleep, Ben secretly told Zhong Xiu a secret: Tell you a secret, I will occasionally burn down the plastic shed, pick a plastic shed that no one cares about in the field, pour gasoline, light a fire, and burn out in a few minutes, as if it never existed... There are a lot of plastic sheds in South Korea, dirty and broken, as if they are waiting for me to burn them down...
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After that day, Hye-mi did not contact Zhong Xiu for a long time, and the phone did not work, and Zhong Xiu was a little uneasy.
He looked for the plastic shed to see if Ben had taken her with him to burn the plastic shed around the perimeter, but didn't tell her.
He looked for a rental house to see if Emi was at home, and he coaxed the landlord to open the door on the grounds of "taking care of the cat", but the landlord told him that there were no cats in the house.
In desperation, Zhong Xiu found Ben.
Ben told him that although I don't know, she shouldn't have traveled, she didn't have the money to travel, Emi doesn't have any money now, doesn't have contact with her family, has no friends, and Emi is a more lonely woman on the surface...
Jong-so just listened, Ben said, I'm a little jealous of you, Hye-mi said, you're the only person she trusts. Anyway, Ben took her new girlfriend to the car.
Zhong Xiu looked for Emi all over the world, but he never found it, the more he thought about it, the more wrong it became, and he suspected Ben...
He tracks him down and finds the abandoned stray cat in his home... He's getting more and more certain that Ben killed Emi...
That day, he asked Ben out and killed him from behind with a knife.
It was raining outside, and Zhong Xiu took off his clothes like a religious ritual with a sense of new life, and drove away in the light of the fire behind him
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That's the whole story, is it complicated? Not complicated, but also quite complicated.
It's not complicated because his story is simple, with less obvious intertwined character lines and less tongue twists.
The complexity is because outside the story, the visual impact of a lot of smoke, the non-existent cat, the non-existent dry well, the vanished Emi...
Li Cangdong buried too many metaphors, symbols, philosophies, it is the narrative art of virtual reality.
I believe that behind this film, many "people who write things" have more or less deeply interpreted.
For example, religion, philosophy, poetry, existentialism, practical dilemmas, rental housing doctrine...
Their interpretations are very interesting, but in fact, just like Wong Kar-wai, a lot of content was not thought of so much when Lee Cangdong filmed.
Just like Wong Kar-wai in the filming of "The Legend of Ah Fei", Zhang Guorong danced on the balcony for 30 seconds...
In fact, this shot has no other meaning, and Wong Kar-wai himself said that he was only for the atmosphere of the film, an overflowing taste.
So in "Burning", Emi is still drinking one second and taking off her clothes the next second and dancing for 1 minute...
This shot does not mean much, it is just as a tone for the atmosphere of the film, how to interpret, that is the audience's own business.
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Watching Korean movies, there is one thing that must be sorted out.
The aesthetic concepts of silence, lowness, and reticence in Korean culture have always profoundly influenced Korean filmmakers.
So most of their shots are extremely onlookers or on this, we rarely see a Korean director to interfere with the development of the plot, most of the directors are not, are using movies to peek into the plight of people and social life.
Li Cangdong's "Burning" is actually a very simple movie, but it is a very simple symbol movie.
What are symbols? Borrowing Zhao Yiheng to give a relatively clear definition of the symbol: the symbol is the perception that is considered to carry meaning, and the meaning is the potential of a symbol to be interpreted by another symbol, and the explanation is the realization of meaning.
The interpretation of meaning is the beginning of a new symbolic process, and the interpretation can only temporarily end a symbolic process, but cannot end meaning. Precisely because each extended interpretation is "perceived to carry meaning."
That is to say, the various symbols in Burning, from its setting, are a text of postmodernist symbols.
And the interpretation of the details of this movie, no matter how thorough, will never be explained, it is only a symbolic process of ending this one shot, but there is no way to end the meaning of the shot because of this interpretation.
Some people can see the world political pattern from "Burning", Hye-mi is South Korea, Jong-so is North Korea, and Ben is the United States.
Some people can see the fall of the muse in "Burning", and Emi is a complete money worshipper.
Some people can see the kingdom of fantasy from "Burning", from when Zhong Xiu said that he was reading "Faulkner's novels, sometimes it was like reading my own stories" and confessed that he was a writer.
As if all these stories were made up later by him, he just happened to meet Emi and his ex-boyfriend Ben...
Some people can see the real dilemma of class from "Burning", the low-level characters of Korean reality represented by Hye-mi and Jong-so, who are doing nothing but eager to change their destiny.
But in the face of the upper class represented by Ben, the embarrassment caused by the inability of their efforts to grow was magnified the more they resisted, and before the problem could be solved, bigger problems had already emerged.
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These interpretations are interesting, but I think it's a story of growing up:
Zhong Xiu is a boy who is pushed by the torrent of fate, in his world, he has never taken the initiative, the first time he met Emi, it was also Hye-mi's accoher, even if it was the first time to kiss and meet, it was also completed under the guidance of Emi.
So that when it came to the appearance of Ben, the third party of the feelings, Zhong Xiu was only a promise, never spoke loudly, he was always just smirking like that.
Of course, Zhong Xiu has thoughts and momentum in his heart, but in front of reality, he can't see the hope of life, he can't see the possibility of love, he can't see the meaning of survival, he is pushed by the torrent and does nothing, he is just constantly accepting reality...
However, when he sees that Emi is constantly being bullied by the so-called upper class and suppressed by Ben, Zhong Xiu is angry, and he tries to prove that Emi has never been the "plastic shed that never existed".
As the evidence became clearer, he killed Ben. This is the first time he has the consciousness of controlling his own destiny, in order to help Emi regain the value of survival, but also to prove the meaning of his existence for himself.
After driving away, a fire made his spirit baptized and reborn, and the price was naturally the unavoidable sentence of criminal law...
The dilemma of reality and the greater irresistible force are always the driving force for us.
But isn't the meaning of life to protect you and the people I love? Isn't the meaning of existence to fight against this absurd world for a better life?
Burning is a typical existentialist text, as well as a postmodernist text. It has a liberating meaning in itself.
If the person who writes something, with an article, gives you a pull, he himself can not clear the Zen, poetic, out of control, existentialism ...
If you can feel it, go talk to him, and if you can't feel it, you can just put up your middle finger and fuck you, whatever.
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