The most intriguing thing about "Burning" is that the movie has never given a clear proof. Did Steven Won kill Kim Jong-seo, or did the latter, who loved Yoo Ah-in so much, disappear out of thin air. Although the movie has hinted a lot from many shots, it has never given the audience a clear answer.
Like the implicit title of the film, "Burning" maintains the consistent mystery of the plot to the maximum extent, using literary and artistic shooting language, the switching of scenes is smooth, the scene scheduling is leisurely and comfortable, and the suspense seems to be left to the last moment. That's what makes the movie more appealing to the audience.
Although the protagonist is Liu Yaren, the second male lead, Steven Wenyuan, is a tepid leader, gradually leading Liu Yaren to the game he set up and discovering the truth. To be honest, such a character setting is a bit hypocritical, but it is also in line with European aesthetics. Coupled with the rising suspense and conflict, the film is different from the highly developed Korean commercial films and the literary films purely based on aesthetics. After surviving the first 20 minutes of old school friends, the film is still very watchable. of.
Li Cangdong told us how to build a relatively stable script in 2 hours and 30 minutes.
The first conflict came from the emotional conflict between the three after Kim Jong-seo returned with a mysterious man named Steven Won. Inferiority makes Liu Yaren unable to express "love" in front of Jin Zhongrui, the emotion that has been hidden in his heart. In turn, Jin Zhongrui also has a good impression of the male lead, but the differences in status, hobbies, and personality make this conflict only possible. Towards the endless abyss - although Yoo Ah In's expression didn't change much.
At the same time, the male protagonist, who is engaged in animal husbandry, also has a conflict with his father who has committed multiple crimes due to violent disorder. But this conflict has not developed much. I believe it is just the movie for Liu Yaren, a symbol around the symbol of "loneliness". There is no excessive development. It is enough to stop it. It is also the screenwriter's cleverness. Don't finish this story.
Under the undercurrent of these two contradictions, the sad words that Liu Yaren said in a fit of anger made the latter suddenly disappear from the world; and the strange hobby of the second male lead. There is gradually a crisis in the quietness of moistening things. The male protagonist seems to be trapped in the center, facing an ambush on all sides, which means that he needs to deal with four problems at the same time: low self-esteem and unease (but this gradually disappears with the disappearance of the female protagonist). Diluted), the father caused an accident, the heroine disappeared, and the plastic shed was burned. The audience also gradually felt the tension of the script from these four contradictions. Such a tension structure is a good example of a non-type sheet. The director saved the continuity of the four questions to the end, and the audience's interest was naturally drawn to the end - even if it wasn't necessarily true.
However, I personally feel that Liu Yaren's role is somewhat weakened, dull, and not clear, which visually weakens the dramatic conflict.
In general, either Steven Won killed the heroine, or Steven Won and his friends were a weird organization (who hunted women), or Yoo Ah In didn't kill Steven Won at all , which can not prevent a situation of the film's mapping: as lonely and useless people, where is the meaning of their existence? Plastic sheds not only refer to women who were killed, but more definitely refer to useless people in society. Even if such people die, no one seems to know about them. The heroine's self-confession after her return illustrates this well:
The feeling of being alone when I was there was too strong. I felt that I was alone, why did I come here after running so far? But the sun went down, and on the horizon that was so far away, there was a sunset glow. It was orange at first, then bloody red, then purple, blue, then darker and darker, the sunset disappeared, and suddenly the tears flowed. Ah, looks like I've reached the end of the world. (Silence) Thinking of that, I really want to disappear like a sunset. Death is too scary, it would be nice if it could disappear like the most non-existent.
When friends gather, Liu Yaren is silent, and Kim Jong Seo sings and dances. But the body language of the people around is impatient, the eyes are dull, and the two seem to be isolated from the world. Kim Jong-seo was dancing and suddenly seemed lonely, because whether she danced in front of two men or in front of a group of people, the effect was the same: because except for Yoo Ah-in, there was no place for her in the hearts of others.
It's like that confusing dry well, as if no one ever cared.
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