It has been raining in Seoul for two days. Cannes is also down.
After watching "Burning" on Chungmuro Road, I felt like the weather in Seoul, with unstoppable heavy rain. I took the subway from Chungmuro Road, transferred to the express bus stop, and returned home after three stops, or rushed home. I remember very clearly, this subway line that I usually took many times in class. Shortened a lot this night. The mood burns with the aftertaste of the movie all the way, I just want to come back quickly to keep a little flame, afraid of being extinguished by the heavy rain.
But I really want to be quiet, and I want to get away from the weather and atmosphere, and then write down my feelings. As soon as I got out of the movie theater, I gave this movie three stars on the subway, and then it was changed to five stars after two stops. The extra two stars are the hindsight it brought me. The first feeling the film gave me was loneliness. The loneliness of Zong Xiu played by Liu Yaren, that kind of loneliness shocked me again and again with the camera, and I saw Zong Xiu trying his best to integrate into the life of the upper class society where Ben led the heroine into the life. , I didn't hold back my choking when I was confused and out of place in the noisy bar. The protagonist Zongxiu is a kind of youth living in the bottom of society. He lied to others to say that he was a novelist, but in fact he was doing a part-time job moving goods, and there was only a mess in the family, and a thin, invisible cow. Novelist is perhaps the profession that needs the least external image to reflect in this world. It can satisfy all the illusions or comfort of all young people who have literary and artistic dreams but do not seek improvement all day long. When Zongxiu tried to walk through the brightly dressed men and women in the club and walked out of the dance floor full of ambiguous lights, the camera suddenly cut to the scene of him cleaning the cow dung in the cowshed, and the tears I was about to shed instantly retreated. Then he looked at Zongxiu who was singing loudly, and smiled unconsciously: Yes, sweeping cow dung is suitable for him. With the disappearance of the heroine in the second half of the film, Zongxiu's cow is taken away, and the shriveled cow may be his only company. At this time, Zongxiu's loneliness reached a peak, followed by anger. Anger has become a product of loneliness, and anger is parasitic on loneliness. The lover disappeared, the cow was taken away, and the father was taken into prison. The anger needed to be vented. The target of this venting was Ben. Zongxiu appeared in the first half of the film. The dagger of his father who was hiding at home committed the crime. This choice may be the only legacy left to him by his father who suffers from emotional control disorder: it is a set of exquisite daggers, and it is even more irrepressible. anger. The title of the film is Burning, Burning in English. Ben tells Zongxiu that he often likes to burn warehouses and the images of burning warehouses that appear in Zongxiu's dreams in order to make fun in the ordinary life. All directly correspond to the topic. The elegant and exquisite Ben and Zongxiu have lived completely different lives, and what Ben burns the warehouse is exciting. Zongxiu used Ben's lighter to learn ben and tried to burn the warehouse, but deep in his heart, cowardly, he nervously put out the flame that was just starting to burn, or the warehouse and Ben were a symbol of Zongxiu's class. Ben, who came from the upper class of capitalism, burned the warehouses at the bottom. When I think of this, my hands are numb. Whether it is Li Cangdong or Haruki Murakami, the original author of the novel, aren't they all deafening creators? . Zongxiu went to the heroine's house at the end, sat by the window and began to write a novel. Zongxiu vented his anger in the novel, so I think the plot in which he kills Ben is the plot in his novel. Zongxiu used an angry dagger to pierce the body of Ben, who he thought killed his beloved woman. In the end, he did not burn the warehouse, but instead used the lighter that Ben left in his home to take Ben's luxury car and Ben's body. The clothes and even underwear that had blood stained on him were burnt clean.
Loneliness comes from desire, and desire comes from women.
The heroine is Zongxiu's young hair. The two met by chance when the heroine was doing a part-time job. She quickly walked into Zongxiu's life and quickly disappeared. She can admit plastic surgery generously, is generous with Zongxiu, can travel to Africa alone and meet Ben, and is eager to integrate into Ben's life. Ben took her to meet his friends, so the shochu she drank with Zongxiu turned into red wine, and kimchi turned into pasta. She danced ridiculously in front of Ben's friends, the camera took the people at the table, they hide their contempt, and then took a single shot of Zongxiu, panicked and uncomfortable. The camera gave Ben again, and Ben yawned. In this way, Li Cangdong threw the embarrassment to the audience intuitively and calmly. An open and free woman is always something men like Zongxiu can't catch, just like the dance where the heroine takes off her coat in the sunset, and the bird compared with her hands is the externalization of her heart. This dance under the silhouette can simply be included in one of the most beautiful dance fragments in movie history. Sunset, fields, marijuana, women, naked. Maybe she was also burning, she tried to escape her original life, burning her passion for life, and burned Zongxiu. Zongxiu released her erotic desires. During her trip to Africa, Zong Xiu was anxiously looking for the heroine for the first time. His desire had nowhere to vent, and he sneaked into the heroine's house. The light on the wall and the Nanshan Tower outside the window corresponded to the previous one. Zongxiu looked at the photo of the heroine and was released through masturbation. And fed the cat who didn't know if it existed (a cat usually represents desire). When the heroine disappeared for the second time, Zongxiu fell into a crazier search. If the heroine had made him forget about loneliness before, then searching might be the best sustenance for him to get out of loneliness. Zongxiu came to the heroine's house again, lying on the heroine's bed and fantasizing about being with the heroine. . Scene. But after the release is more desire. Desire fuels anger.
After Zongxiu came out of the hostess's house for the first time, on a rainy evening, she stepped off the bus, wearing a gray T-shirt half wet by the rain, and returned to her dilapidated home. Maybe this can only be his life. It is said that it was raining heavily on the day the film premiered in Cannes. Coincidentally, on the first day of the theater in South Korea, it rained in Seoul until now. After watching the movie, I arrived home from Chungmuro Road, and the rain fell in my heart, but it couldn't extinguish my own burning.
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