Burning | Cinema of Meaning #60
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- Опубліковано 26 кві 2023
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Thomas Flight and Tom van der Linden discuss one of the most enigmatic films of the 21st century: Lee Chang-dong’s Burning. A complex tale of morality, Freudian dynamics, and socio-political conflicts.
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This is one of my favorite movies of the 2010s. I actually had to pause the podcast 10 minutes in because it was making me want to watch the movie again.
A simply perfect movie to me
this is one of my all time favorite films and i’m so glad you guys finally covered it!
Question: do you guys collect physical media of your favorite films?
Ocassional viewer of Thomas here, not a film buff or anything, but I'm surprised that the hosts haven't mentioned Murakami's The Wind-up Bird Chronicles. Going into the film I knew it was based on a short story, but I wasn't expecting it to borrow so heavily from this book. A yearning for connection yet an inability to understand another person fully, feeling intimidated by higher status men to the point of impotence, awkward sex with business transaction overtones, a well that could just be the person's nadir, et cetera - it's all there and in a similar context. I half-expected a war story or a psychic to work their way into the film. If any of you reading this want something to read something similar that is not just the short story then make sure to check this book out, trust me, it's weird but it may provide perspective on the questions you're left with after your viewing.
I WAS WAITING FOR THIS
Never thought a movie would come close to the writing of murakami. This one definitely did.
Love your analysis videos. Was wondering if you were planning on taking a dive into Beau is Afraid?
Oddly, another movie Burning reminds me of is the Coen's "a Serious Man".
Both are centered around a lot of uncertainty and I feel both have a similar theme of masculine insecurity.
Accept the mystery..
9:30 Americans are too used to Hollywood straightforward movies and unable to catch the subtleties of the human emotion. “Burning” is not a mystery movie, it’s more like a philosophical exploration of meanings of life. The first hour in movie is not just meaningless hang around like you said, for example, Haemi said “To do pantomime of eating orange, you don’t need to pretend there’s an orange, you just need to forget that there’s no orange.”, and the African dance of “little hunger” and “great hunger”, those are all metaphors of reality and meaning of life that are directly linked to the main idea of this movie. There are much more. If you approach Korean movie as you approach Hollywood blockbuster, then you will get very little out of it.
I’m not sure how this runs counter to what the commentators said
11:11
Bro, that movie was some pretentious trash