Beoning 2018 South Korea Burning | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ben is kind, thoughtful, generous--but rich, so he can be the vortex of metaphorical hate, just like pixie girl as a metaphorical greenhouse, a metaphorical spring of life. Ben's yawns were inauthentic, though. If I were Ben I might not have noticed a big ugly truck following me in traffic (because I'm rich I don't notice these ugly plebe things) ... but down a dirt road in the middle of nowhere? I need a highfalutin' excuse metaphor for that. The watch in the box was a cheap shot. The 'stray' cat? Ambiguity is cool but malicious misdirection is a club. One small nit pick: the wack sound design of our anti-protagonist's labored breathing caused me to throw popcorn at the screen (metaphorically speaking). I found the film uninteresting and unengaging but it's a film school student's wet dream. So masterfully crafted, Lee even includes a wet dream. How meta! Summary: Jong-soo, a part-time worker, bumps into Hae-mi while delivering, who used to live in the same neighborhood. Hae-mi asks him to look after her cat while she's on a trip to Africa. When Hae-mi comes back, she introduces Ben, a mysterious guy she met in Africa, to Jong-soo. One day, Ben visits Jong-soo's with Hae-mi and confesses his own secret hobby. |