It is also a movie narrated around the rich and the poor, but it is a completely different way of expression from "Parasite". It does not have a strong plot, and there are not many direct and plain expressions. Depressed, hazy, full of metaphors, like a pair of vast eyes watching from a distance.
This film expresses many things in an "inexpressible" way, leaving a lot of room for thought and discussion. In the film, Emi, who is in the middle and lower classes, travels to Africa and sees people who are hungry for food, "little hunger", and people who are hungry for the meaning of life, "great hunger". Dancing; after smoking marijuana, she took off her shirt in the wilderness at dusk and raised her hands like a bird, as if she had taken off the bondage of the world and sought freedom. She is a very peculiar existence in the film, a girl who can fall asleep for ten seconds, a girl who looks at the end of the world and sheds tears, and a girl who retains a lot of fantasy and whimsy beyond the world.
Zhong Xiu and Ben are a pair of tension in the film. Zhong Xiu, who is at the bottom, always suppresses a sense of inferiority and discomfort when facing Ben. He loves Hui Mei but sends Hui Mei to Ben's Porsche without saying a word. Returning to the shack in the countryside with his truck, he knew that Ben's approach to Emi was not out of genuine love, but it was difficult for him to stand up and take Emi away. At the same time, Ben is always so calm. He smiles and walks lazily among various parties, bars, and gyms. When Zhongxiu first met him, he asked him what he did, and he said "Play". Why are people's living conditions so different? Zhong Xiu, who has always wanted to write novels, said that he still doesn't know what to write, and the world is a mystery to him.
But Ben is also not a thin and conceptual existence of the rich class. He has indifference, indifference and indifference to the world, a kind of arrogance of the rich and indifference to other small existences in society. He said he would find a useless plastic shed every two months and burn it down. The plastic shed here is also a metaphor for those humble and insignificant forms of existence in the society. Those at the bottom, it stimulates Zhong Xiu. Zhong Xiu said, "Those are useless and unnecessary. Is it your judgement, eldest brother?" Ben said. , he does not need judgment, just as the rain washes away all things, the rain does not need judgment. Zhong Xiu said, won't this be caught? The police in South Korea don't care and don't care about these things, Ben said. Ben's class is like the rain in the sky, the existence of all things on the ground is not existence to them, and can be easily washed and washed, like ants. But at the same time, Ben also has a sense of alienation from the high society he belongs to. He frequently dozes off at the gatherings of the rich. In his eyes, Huimi, who is different from his rich friends, is a very interesting existence. He often comes to the countryside, Drive the car to an empty place with no one, and look at the sky, mountains and lakes independently from the verdant weeds.
At the end of the film, similar but not similar to "Parasite", Zhong Xiu stabbed Ben to death with a knife and threw the dead Ben into his Porsche, just like Ben burning a useless plastic shed, Zhong Xiu poured gasoline on it, Lighting a fire, he got back into his big truck and drove away, the Porsche behind him ablaze with that little spark. There is also a memorable scene here. After Zhong Xiu threw Ben into his Porsche, he took off, threw, and burned all his clothes. In the end, he was naked and barefoot in the snow. Zhong trembled back to his truck and left naked. This scene reminds me of Emi in front of me, who took off her shirt and turned into a bird. I don't know what kind of response and implication, I haven't figured it out yet.
The entire film of "Burning" is shrouded in a layer of hazy repression, and even the final "climax of the conflict" is calmly and repressed in silence. Compared with "Parasite"'s dramatic, intense conflict, high density, and straightforward setting, "Burning" is far less beautiful than "Parasite", but its calm, depressing and hazy presentation makes it poetic. Sexual expression, it has a wider space for white space and aftertaste. In this regard, it is indeed better than "Parasite".
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