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Burning

Mystery · Drama

Burning

The truth is all in your head.

7.4(1,840) 5/17/2018 2h 28m
MysteryDramaThriller

Deliveryman Jong-su is out on a job when he runs into Hae-mi, a girl who once lived in his neighborhood. She asks if he'd mind looking after her cat while she's away on a trip to Africa. On her return, she introduces to Jong-su an enigmatic young man named Ben, who she met during her trip. One day Ben tells Jong-su about his most unusual hobby.

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Top Cast

Yoo Ah-in

Yoo Ah-in

Lee Jong-su

Steven Yeun

Steven Yeun

Ben

Jeon Jong-seo

Jeon Jong-seo

Shin Hae-mi

Kim Soo-kyung

Kim Soo-kyung

Yeon-ju

Choe Seung-ho

Choe Seung-ho

Lee Yong-seok

Moon Sung-keun

Moon Sung-keun

Lawyer

Min Bok-gi

Min Bok-gi

Judge

Ban Hye-ra

Ban Hye-ra

Jong-su's Mother

Directed by

Lee Chang-dong

Production

Reviews

Stephen Campbell

8/10

7/14/2019

_**A slow-burning mystery about economics, class, and sexual jealousy. And cats.**_ > _For a long time, I've wanted to tell a story about young people, and in particular, the young people of this generation. Some of my past projects were named Project Rage. That was because it seems that today, people all over the world, regardless of their nationality, religion, and social status, are angry for different reasons. The rage of young people is a particularly pressing problem. The millennials living in Korea today will be the first generation that are worse off than their parents' generation._ _They feel that the future will not change significantly. Not able to find the object to direct their rage at, they feel a sense of debilitation. This film is about young people who feel impotent, wi

The Movie Diorama

8/10

1/16/2020

Burning singes its psychological character study with a thrillingly igneous mystery. The cosmic fires of the sun. Its radiance encapsulating our world with warmth and tenderness. The perfect distance for sustainability. Equilibrium. Its rich beating rays corrupting the impressionable youth, granting life in the most deciduous souls. The Sun sets. And much like its vanishing point, the resonance of its warmth dissipates, only leaving numbing bitterness. Chang-Dong’s adaptation of Murakami’s ‘Barn Burning’ is an arresting piece of psychology. An ambiguous analysis perceiving the wealthy to emotionally manipulate the aspiring, culminating into a study on the human condition. A complex aura of social anatomisation that defies the genres that are seamlessly blended. A story not entirely base

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