If the article doesn’t answer all of your questions, drop me a comment or an FB chat message, and I’ll get you the answer to your question. The number 4 is an unlucky number in Korea. While Jong-su can’t identify any evident bad traits about Ben in real life, in his book, he bestows upon him a dark side, a serial killer. I just caught this in the cinema yesterday and absolutely loved it! The well is one such event she brings up from the past, which is mysterious. The well is an outstanding element of misdirection. Question. I don't understand why Ben goes to the final rendezvous. This is. Jong-su’s mother, however, remembers a well, but she herself is a wreak and highly unreliable. That was the last scene with her. I loved this move. Much of what she says leaves both the audience and Jong-su questioning her authenticity. But, I think whether she was killed by him or still alive isn't a main point, but rather a catalyst. Now, remember, in the beginning, Hae-mi is curious what it would be like to disappear as if she never existed. However, in Jong-su’s novel, he’s decided that Ben is a killer. He's even not in her home physically, but he is in dreams and this gives him the energy to create. But Jongsu's mother's affirmation of the well's existence kinda served as a catalysis, with Jongsu eventually "rescuing" Haemi a second time by avenging her. In the beginning, Ben jokingly suggests Jong-su should write about him. Korea emphasizes on getting career jobs and that going hand in hand with your worth to society. This angle explores the metaphorical nature of the movie Burning. Maybe Jongsu is just this calf. Instead, Jong-su is quick to ask her to go with Ben and pulls her bags out of his truck. It's a film like a house of many blocks ald all of them work in many ways. At the end, when Jong-su is stabbing Ben, he doesn’t resist; instead, he hugs him. At the end, when Jong-su is stabbing Ben, he doesn’t resist; instead, he hugs him. I have no idea why Jongsu always stares at this satellite (or a tower of some sort) outside his window whenever he masturbates. The metaphorical level of this film is just godlike. With Farrah Fawcett, Paul Le Mat, Richard Masur, Grace Zabriskie. He doesn't know what to do with his life and just walks arount with round eyes, not participating intellectually in anything around him. He tells Jong-su that he’s scouting for his next target and that it is “very close” to Jong-su. His incredible, self entitled arrogance is what spelled his end. While Jong-su assumes that Hae-mi is in a serious relationship with Ben, that is not the case. Ben mentions two "nevers" in the film: never having cried, and feeling jealousy for the first time when Haemi says that Jongsu is the only one who makes her feel safe. This is also shown in how Hae-mi’s apartment is immaculate and neat. He kills women who he knows no one will look for because they are in such a ditch in their lives. The scene with Trump on TV and Faulkner vs The Great Gatsby bring in this parallel with the US: populists preying on those "forgotten" country people who feel like somebody else is winning on the economic boom. Jongsu was Haemi's hero as a kid when he rescued her from the well. Synopsis After Ben mentions that he burns down an abandoned greenhouse about every two months and that he's planning on burning one very close to Jong-su's home, Jong-su starts to pay attention to likely targets around him. In the sense, it might have been a stray that visited her room and not her pet. I will need to watch the movie again but from my first watch, that’s what I got from it. Burning is an Mystery, Drama, Thriller movie that was released in 2018 and has a run time of 2 hr 28 min. The Great Hunger dance scene is pivotal to the movie Burning not only because it cinematically captures the duality of life, both light and dark, it is also the last time we see Hae-mi. Where the disappearance of a character is supposed to play more on the emotions of the people around them, and the audience is supposed to care less on whether it actually happened or not. Ben might also represent the lure or “escape” that death might give to not being good enough. So here’s my theory about the movie: I think Ben sort of represents death or depression. While in reality, Hae-mi just left, Jung-su tries to give her disappearance a reason in his book – Ben. There was this moment when the main character asks Ben about a burned greenhouse and explains that he hasn't seen any in his area. While Ben is a cultured, wealthy guy, the novel presents a dark side by making him a serial killer. Perhaps there is a horrible consequence to Ben’s lifestyle, but definitely not as bad as being a murderer. The shots were beautiful. This could be showing how South Korea's politics have been problematic because the problems from the past(especially Japanese colonial period) haven't resolved and rather they are trying to forget that existed. If the question is how could he afford to take the apt, well keep in mind he sold the calf. He’s respectful and doesn’t mistreat Jong-su because he’s poor. He asks Hae-mi’s family, and they say that they never had a well. Haemi finding Jongsu randomly on the street. Let's call them "greenhouses", which he isn't able to burn, at least one in a couple of months, to feel himself free). But when they are with Ben's friends, they laugh at her as she mimics the tribal dance. The other angle is that Ben is not a killer, Hae-mi has just moved on and created a new life for herself elsewhere and what we see towards the end of the Burning movie is the story of the novel that Jong-su is writing. After Vivien had a miscarriage, he and his wife fell into a grieving state. I think this represents her situation. He runs into a girl who used to be a neighbour when they were kids.