"My heart is higher than the sky, and I am inferior." It is very appropriate to use Qingwen's verdict to interpret Shen Huimei's fate . In "Burning", the heroine Shen Huimei has confirmed the tragic color of these eight characters throughout her life.
"Burning" has a sociological core. Director Li Changdong seems to want to throw out many controversial social issues through one work, such as the contradiction between ideals and reality, youth employment, and the gap between the rich and the poor. family problems.
It is Shin Hye Mi who connects these issues.
1. Appearance of Shin Hye Mi
It's hard to tell whether Shin Hye Mi's appearance was deliberate or random. At the beginning of the film, the camera followed the back of the male protagonist Li Zhongxiu, and entered the store through the crowd. At the entrance of the store, two scantily clad women were twisting their bodies to attract passers-by into the store. This was the first appearance of Shin Hye-mi. .
With revealing clothes, enchanting dancing, and frivolous eyes, at least from the lens language, Shen Huimei can easily be regarded as a passer-by with a mask, rather than a protagonist. This arrangement of appearances echoes Shen Huimei's last silent disappearance, her existence and her disappearance are both silent.
If Shin Hye-mi is classified, she must be a straightforward girl-next-door type, simple, independent, and growing up. When Li Zhongxiu didn't recognize her, she bluntly said that she had plastic surgery and asked the other party if she had become beautiful. Then we learned that Lee Jong-soo once said that Shin Hye-mi was ugly. To a certain extent, Shin Hye-mi brought Lee Jong-soo home, which has the effect of compensating psychology and making up for the lack of self-confidence caused by her appearance.
What does the reunion with Lee Jong Soo mean for Shin Hye Mi? Is it to give him a sweetness to overturn the fact that he was once said to be ugly? Is it because of a trip to Africa and need someone to take care of the cat? Or a ray of light cast in the endless wandering life?
These factors should all be present. But it is more likely that Shin Hye Mi is just using Lee Jong Soo as a spare tire. The advantage of the spare tire is to provide a sense of security. This sense of security is that she can see the big world, and after seeing the sunset and shed tears, she can still rely on Plan B.
Several people in "Burning" have extreme contradictions in their personalities. The point of this contradiction is manifested in Shin Hye-mi's extreme humility and extreme enthusiasm. The meaning of the big and small hunger she has been looking for is beyond Li Jong-soo's understanding. Although both of them were born in a humble land, they are people of two worlds.
2. Wells, pantomimes, and big and small hunger
The three images of well, pantomime, and big and small hunger support the character of Shin Hye-mi, which makes our impression of her break away from the stereotyped image of a girl who is enchantingly writhing in front of the store.
The well is the beginning of everything. She recalled that when she was six or seven years old, she had fallen into a well next to her home, looked up at the sky at the bottom of the well and cried for hours.
Well, just like Shin Hye Mi's cat, it doesn't matter if it really existed in reality. What's important is that Jing shows Shin Hye Mi's despair, helplessness, and desire to be saved, and also reflects Shin Hye Mi's dispensable status in the family of origin. My sister's evaluation of Shin Hye-mi is that "you can make up a story and make it up like the real thing".
The implication was that she would lie, and everything she said was unbelievable.
The pantomime appeared twice, the first time was when the two reunited, Shin Hye-mi performed a pantomime of eating oranges during dinner. "The key is, don't think that there are oranges here, just forget that there are no oranges here. Just think that you really want to eat." The second time, after Shin Hye-mi disappeared, Lee Jong-soo came to the pantomime club, a group of people were going on With suggestive performances.
The pantomime is negligible in the film, but it's interesting. From the beginning of the film, Shin Hye-mi is an active and independent character, she can express her goals, thoughts and doubts without any scruples, while the pantomime timely suspends her habit of "speaking" and focuses on In terms of body expression, her last dance in the sunset is like this. The body conveys more information than words.
Hunger big and small is an image throughout the film.
For the Bushes living in the deserts of Africa, there are two kinds of hungry people in the world, little hunger and great hunger. Little hunger is a person who is physically hungry. , The big hungry are people who are hungry in pursuit of the meaning of life. The hungry people who search for the meaning of life and or life all day long are really hungry people in their opinion.
Aside from the shackles of values, Lee Jong-soo can be regarded as a little hungry, Ben can be regarded as a big hungry, and Shin Hye-mi is in between. Sadly, the identity of the little hungry makes her despise, and she also Did not become a full-fledged hunger.
Just like Shin Hye Mi, we are probably like this in reality.
3. Disappear like a sunset
Shin Hye Mi disappeared.
After returning from Africa, she described the scene of watching the sunset in the desert when she was drunk. She laughed and cried. The sun went down, and a sunset appeared on the horizon, orange at first, then a bloody fiery red, then purple and blue, and then disappeared in the bleak sky.
"Suddenly tears flowed down, ah, it turns out that I have reached the end of the world. Thinking of this, I also want to disappear like a sunset. Death is terrible, if it can disappear like it didn't exist in the first place. ."
She regrets being born into this world. The room she rented was dark and cold. The sun could only shine in once a day, and it was the sunlight reflected from the glass windows of the tall building opposite. But the room in her heart has no sunshine. She and Li Zhongxiu are both people who live on the fringes of this prosperous society. In the rented room, the toilet is next to the sink, and they have indecent jobs, small hungers that are difficult to solve, and big hungers that cannot be found.
Maybe when she was in Africa, Shin Hye-mi had disappeared from this world with the sunset. Her last life was fixed in the afterglow of the sunset. It was her great hunger to return her soul. She did not need to return to South Korea from Africa, and then return to the hardships of small hunger.
That's why Shin Hye-mi took off her shirt and danced in the sunset in her last dance, which was particularly moving. With her hands in a bird-flying gesture, the sky was as clear as wash, and the pale blue sky was dotted with orange and light purple. The music stopped and she cried too.
It would be great if it could disappear like the sunset, if it could disappear like it didn't exist in the first place.
Look, what a kind person she is, she even wants to leave silently and doesn't want to cause trouble to anyone.
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