The 2018 Korean film "Burning" was called the biggest jewel of the Cannes Film Festival by some fans, so what kind of charm does "Burning" have that fans will never forget?
The heroine Emi (Jeon Jong-sook), the heroine who dances in the sunset, never appears in the movie again after the dance, where did she end up?
In fact, "Burning" tells a chilling crime story, and Emi's son Brother Ben (Steven Yuan), whom Emi met while traveling in Africa, is a perverted serial killer with an antisocial personality.
On the surface, he looks polite and gentle, but in fact, every two months, he will find a young woman who lives at the bottom and rushes to make a living, and then kills them after winning their favor.
When Emi and the male protagonist Zhongxiu (played by Liu Yaren) went to Ben's house for the first time, Zhongxiu found a lot of feminine items in the drawer of Ben's dressing room, such as hair cards, which were actually the trophies Ben took from the victim. Generally, perverted serial killers have the habit of collecting victims' belongings.
It was precisely because Jong-so went to Ben's house for the second time and saw the sports watch he gave to Emi in the drawer that Jong-so was sure that Emi was killed by Ben. And in this family, Zhongxiu found a stray cat and boiler raised by Emi, which strengthened his idea.
Then When did Jong-so begin to suspect that Ben had killed Jong-so? From Jong-so once received a call from Emi, Emi on the other end of the phone did not speak, but there was a crackling sound of burning grain. Zhong Xiu felt that everything seemed wrong.
Because not long ago Ben said that he said that burning greenhouses every two months, although burning greenhouses is illegal, but because greenhouses are generally relics of the old times abandoned in the countryside, ordinary people will not pay attention, so even the offending police will not care.
After Emi's phone hung up, Jong-so searched the greenhouse near her home, but found nothing.
In fact, every two people will find a prey to gain their trust, and burn them to death with the greenhouse.
The forgotten nature of the greenhouse and the fact that the police will not investigate deeply also compare the targets he chose to be people living at the bottom of society, and even if they disappeared, the world would not have any reaction, let alone expect the police to open a case for them.
When Emi disappeared, she also had a large foreign debt.
And the Association jokingly called them very interesting people, they were special people, and he was attracted to some of their qualities. For example, Huimei, who is obviously penniless but will save money to travel to Africa, and the duty-free shop female cabinet sister who was looking for after Huimei.
Ben would even introduce them to his friends, seemingly to integrate them into his own life, but in fact he was showing his friends what the life of these people who rushed to live was like. After all, they will not experience their life situations and interesting experiences in their lives.
Those who seem to be running hard to live because Ben and they have lived at the finish line since birth.
Ben and Ben's friends basically choose to listen at friends' gatherings, and those who are chosen by Ben will tell about the lives and lives they think are blooming.
Another interesting image in "Burning" is that Emi really fell into the well when she was 7 years old and was saved by Jong-so? In fact, it is very likely that Emi liked and trusted Jongxiu at that time. Because Emi once told Ben that Jong-so is the person she trusts in the world, this even caused local jealousy.
My understanding is that Emi did fall into the well when she was 7 years old, but she was the only one who remembered it all the time. No one cares about it, whether it's Jong-so who saved her, or Emi's family. Emi's family, because they don't remember the incident, even insisted that there was no well near their home.
In fact, this can also show from the side that Megumi has been an easily ignored person since she was a child, she has always received limited attention, and she has not felt safe since she was a child. That's why she will always remember Zhong Xiu, who saved her when she was a child.
It can also be said that her affordable beauty has always been in the well, and she has never found the meaning of her existence in anyone. Because of her loved ones, the people she cared about couldn't even see the well.
This is also a metaphor for the innate alienation of people who have no sense of existence. They are sensitive people, but this desolate life makes them even more unable to find the meaning of existence.