《burning》 - Modern Apocalypse

When Zhong Xiu and Huimei are in a place like a big stall, they talk about pantomime and an imaginary orange; they talk about little hunger and great hunger in Africa; they also talk about the cat that doesn't necessarily exist, which is both dead and alive. It's called boil (boiling water from the boiler) and needs Zhong Xiu to feed.

If you have a good memory, behind Huimei, there is a hard plastic Raincloth which is also common in China.

The opening of "burning" is so attractive, it is dominated by the follow-up long shot, completing the appearance from a to B. The cigarette that Zhong Xiu sucks, Zhong Xiu and Hui Mei eat cigarettes together. Two people's feelings quickly heating up, by making love to complete the boiling. Zhong Xiu's voice, hum ha, Hui Mei's saliva in a paper cup, and even her front and back look with a condom on, all have a sense of the reality and daily life of young people.

After Huimei disappeared, I looked back at their encounter in the street. Maybe Huimei didn't have plastic surgery at all. Maybe when Zhong Xiu was at school, she didn't say a word to her at all, but Zhong Xiu, who was about to burn and was in a state of fire, returned to her hometown in the countryside of pozhou in the cold wind and rain.

Zhong Xiu is more in need of this emotional encounter than Huimei, whose heart is in Africa and who is actually a Kanu.

This also explains why he could see a flash of light reflected from the Nanshan viewing platform. That's the light of life.

What's in pozhou?

For Zhong Xiu, it's an empty family. Her mother has been away for many years, and her father has been jailed for breaking the law. Father and son, from beginning to end did not have a dialogue, and always far apart.

There are endless plastic greenhouses for growing vegetables in pozhou;

Strange phone calls that keep ringing but no one answers;

The loud political broadcast from the border of North Korea

There are signs that this is a place surrounded by mysteries and lies. Maybe only one creature is real: the unfed calf for sale.

Zhong Xiu must be depressed.

The protagonist of this movie is tall and has a pair of naive eyes; he can't be disgusted when he writes a novel that hasn't started yet; he works hard, is enthusiastic, and isn't afraid of social occasions - only when he pays the bill, he will be careful to count.

The protagonists in burning are not annoying. This seems to indicate that the intention of this film may not be the so-called elimination of hopeless class solidification and the money criticism of consumerism, but a "modern Apocalypse" without war but without knowing the meaning of life.
Huimei, who went to Africa, actually wanted to escape.

With the fading of the day and the burning of the sunset, she suddenly disappeared. Except for the invisible cat, she didn't leave any mess for Zhong Xiu. No matter how stupid people can understand, Zhong Xiu is hopelessly in love with her, crazy, but hit the reality, it is difficult to say.