the Lonely young man looking for, both skrivinspiration and someone to love. About so can you maybe describe the main character in ”Burned” – and for a young man with författardrömmar can as familiar sökmålen coincide. So when Jongsu after his studies in creative writing collides with the Haemi from the native village on the street in Seoul it will be the start of a kärleksdrama that must be told.
But it will be before we see Jongsu hammering on the keyboard, and the road to the first novel – now, if it is what we are witnessing in this literary layers-on-layers-history – is lined with warning signs.
the Haemi is, perhaps, no classic femme fatale, but soon Jongsu entwined in a tangle of kattmatning and suspect gaslighting, which may habit thrilleråskådare to ana something and gets restless.
In Lee Chang-dong’s liquefied noirfilm “Burnt”, which last spring received the critic award at the Cannes film festival, has the phrase the director taken on a short story by Haruki Murakami from 1983. To the manuscript, Lee and co-author Oh Jung-mi also borrowed from a story by William Faulkner, Entitled novell sharing the title with. It is a film about the klasskrockar and pockande the desire for revenge.
. The document has been updated and moved to 2010-century south Korea, which, according to Jongsu overrun of the Gatsby characters. That is to say, the young and the inexplicably rich people, who, lacking everything what scruples called.
One of them is, without doubt, Ben, that Haemi hits on a trip to Kenya. Jongsu has taken care of her cat and hope for a romantic reunion at the airport, but turn down at the sight of Ben.
I personally will think of ”The talented mr. Ripley” – but here it is not a farmers son Jongsu trying to blend in among the upper class, but rather the Bones that want to slumma among the common people and examine their lives and mannerisms with a wry smile.
Thematically, this is the familiar chips for Lee Chang-dong – director’s last movie ”the Poet” from 2010 was also on a writing man, and more specifically a poet with a failing memory.
But it metalitterära the subject should perhaps not be over-emphasized, because ”Burned” is about class and morality. In a scene emerges the difference between the male competitors in particular clearly: Jongsu, the world is a mystery, for Ben is a children’s playground.
Ben invites Haemi and Jongsu to his luxury apartment to bid on homemade pasta. He will with the Porsche on the safari to Jongsus significantly less posh parents ‘ house, which is close enough to the border to north Korea to propagandasändningarna echoes over the surroundings.
Ben will also be presenting Haemi for their mistrustful friends who see when she demonstrates her oförställda lack of pace and formation, while Jongsu studying how Ben observes her, amused and bored at the same time. Everything in the shape with the cards close to the body and a patience that will allow us to follow how the mystery thickens in real-time.
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prisoners Jongsus tight-lipped awkwardness with a moment’s hesitation in the face of every replica. Steven Yeun, among other things, familiar from the tv series ”The walking dead”, is perfect as the confident Ben that moves tyngdlöst through life and stifles a yawn before existence.
the debutante writer Jeon Jong-seo has a more thankless task in the role of Haemi. She is, after all, nothing more than a pawn, or rather trophy, in their games. It is a classic not to say antikverad female role, even if it now belongs to the genre.
”Burned” is thus hardly innovative in all respects, but a love triangle where everything falls into place without the results ever feels predetermined. It is a feat in itself and becomes even more immersive through Lee’s slow acting director.
See more. Three south Korean mysteries: ”Memories of murder” (2003), ”Mother” (2009) and ”The handmaiden” (2016).
