燃 燒 (2023)
Compared to the literary work Barn Burning by Haruki Murakami, I was more influenced by the cinematic presentation of Burning by Lee Chang-dong. The scene of the burning is too impressive to be erased from my mind. Fire is extremely destructive, and fame, marriage, money, accompanied with pretension, self-esteem, and obsessions — all built on the hierarchy of capital — are all equally reduced to ashes on the ground. Whose body, whose barn, who gained more, and who had nothing. The man with the hollow inside is all a void regardless of where they stand and who they are.