Li Cangdong's movie "Burning" has a magical experience. Under the slightly suspenseful tone of the theme, the whole narrative seems calm as a whole, but after watching it, it has a long aftertaste.
What is the meaning of human existence?
What is the purpose of a poor man living in an old house in the country, without a serious job, and running for his litigious father?
Living in a wealthy area, driving a luxury car, and "there is no difference between work and play nowadays", what purpose do the wealthy live for?
Shin Hye-mi is in the middle of the situation. She is so poor that she works odd jobs to pay off her debts, and at the same time, she also performs pantomimes and travels to Africa to find her inner answers.
Jump off the Little Hunger and become the Great Hunger, indulge in the communication between the horizon and the sky, lament the beauty of the end of the sunset and the sunset, and shed tears unconsciously. At dusk in Paju, Hye Mi dances in front of Jong Soo's old house, adding a touch of illusory color to the film.
For young Lee Jong-soo, since coming into contact with the equally young Shin Hye-mi, he has come into contact with a more profound and depressing spiritual world, and it is even more elusive under the sunshine, what is truth.
Does the orange in Emi's hand exist? What about her cat? Was there really a well that Emi mentioned in the neighborhood of his childhood home? Is the suddenly appearing mother real? Where is the plastic shed that Ben burned? ...
How does a rough life get around? Why did the spark of hope that was buried in the heart just disappear for no reason? Why is the material and spiritual gap between people so difficult to understand? Is there a difference between unreal and real?
After touching all this, it seems that the outline of the entire society in front of us is blurred, just like the gradation of the sunset on the horizon at sunset, soon after the magnificent fiery red, it will fall into a dim silence. "It would be nice if it disappeared like it didn't exist in the first place." - Emi once commented on the sunset scene seen on the African grasslands.
The setting sun is the burning before exhaustion. The Teen Clock Show burns his mother's clothes, and Ben says he likes to periodically burn plastic sheds. Everyone has expectations for burning, not only in the process of burning, but also in the satisfaction that the flame devours everything.
Then burn it, burn everything beautiful, ugly, real, or illusory, burn it up, burn it up, disappear in the sky, disappear in your heart.
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