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Based loosely on Haruki Murakami's short story Barn Burning, "Burning" is Lee's first film in eight years, and it is a bleak and almost Darwinian vision of the world, survival of the fittest laid bare in sometimes shocking brutality.
Burning is a postmodernist film about the oppression of capitalist Korean society through class and gender and probably other things too. To approach the film as a murder mystery in which you have to find out whether Ben killed Hae-Mi or not is to miss the point. The point is, Ben did kill Hae-Mi...and he didn't.
Nov 8, 2021 · Burning, Eva Orner’s new documentary, is about the climate crisis, and the Australian government’s decision to (metaphorically) let the fires burn. It is quite explicit in its claims, and...
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Mar 11, 2021 · Burning, for example, is a straight up thriller, but it’s not your average Hollywood thriller. Even if the description I just wrote above makes it sound like a South Korean romantic comedy about...
Nov 14, 2018 · Captures the Toll of Extreme Inequality in South Korea. Lee Chang-dong’s new film paints a deft and intimate portrait of a young generation beset by economic desperation.
Burning is one of the rare movies that feels like living. It captures the irreducible sense of not-knowing that lurks in the back of our minds, threatening to topple our sense of reality from the razor’s edge.
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Oct 25, 2018 · One of the most beautiful scenes in a movie this year — in many years — comes midway through “Burning.” Two men and a woman are lazing around outside a home.
