Review of Burning

Burning (2018)
6/10
Intriging, well acted but meh... I found a couple of interesting details if you care to know..
16 February 2019
Warning: Spoilers
1. The main character Jong-su appears in 99.9% off all scenes in the movie except one! He is nowhere to be found in the scene where Ben (Steven Yun) is in his apartment's bathroom getting the makeup box and applying lipstick to her girlfriend. This scene is sandwiched between the scene where Jong-su is writing (his novel?) at Hae-mi 's apartment and the murder ending scene. So you can guess that he just created the lipstick and murder scene for his novel.

2. I don't know if this is related to the plot of the movie but the actor that plays Hae-mi had (quite bad if you ask me) breast implants after coming back from Africa. If you compare her physique during her sunset topless dance with her love scene with Jong-su at the beginning of the film her physique is not the same. She was already very pretty, why would she do that?

Anyway, I love slow burning movies and I enjoyed this one.

Kudos for the director for keeping me intrigued for more than two hours. I love paying attention to details to solve a mystery or discovering something puzzling but for some reason this movie doesn't give me enough to give it higher marks.

I think I understood all the topics, subtopics and metaphors the movie wanted to transmit but at the end my feeling was meh...

I think the main issues were that the movie is overlong and the character Jong-su. This character is soooo damn dull! Some reviewers found him interesting with multiple layers in his personality. Me, I did not find anything interesting about him. He spends 15+ min running around the fields and following Ben! What kept me motivated were the other two characters and the mystery.

On a positive side the acting by the leads are very good specially Steven Yuen and the main story is intriguing.
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