Burning (2018) — dir. Lee Chang-Dong

A rich and deeply thought film, mired in ambiguities, questions not quite answered in the half-light—but on another level it's very much about picking up your crush from the airport and she gets off the plane with Steven Yeun. Devastating. (spoilers under the cut, more movie thoughts on letterboxd)

Haemi is still a classic Murakami woman, and this has all the usual criticisms you could level at that. The dichotomy is in how men look at her, whether she is a disposable toy or jealously, clumsily fumbled at. But she has the great hunger, still gone unsatisfied. This is a film about young people, a shiftless, lost generation. Both Jong-su's parents are useless to him, selfish, uninterested in his life. These kids with no jobs, their elders ineffectual, stubborn, proud. Not really all that friendly. Go burning greenhouses. It's Jongsu who does the burning. A glimmer of sun off the Seoul tower, phallic, freighted with desire. Then, undressing as Haemi did for him and Ben, as the sun set, he burns Ben. Their final clinch more passionate and breathless even than Jongsu's other penetration, of Haemi. The Kalahari bushmen burning a fire from evening deep into the night, working the small hunger into the great hunger.

All these things that aren't quite there. The invisible cat an excuse to fuck, really, but leaving scat all the same. Phone calls that are merely silence. The tangerine, not willed into being but not-negated. Everything is there beneath the surface if it is not denied. It is in Panju, and also in Seoul. (Or is Ben's "simultaneous existence" the antithesis of this, all-being, total positive, both there and here, not between, not half or either but both? Making offerings to yourself, god and worshipper.) The well, remembered or created. Haemi herself, appearing as if a miracle and then vanishing just the same.

Burning burning burning, the film makes us wait so long to finally set something alight, but it is back there too, in the past, waiting behind us, beneath and around as the sun falls out of the sky into void.

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