Burning
Directed by Chang-dong Lee
Starring Ah-In Yoo, Jong-seo Jeon, Steven Yeun
Running time: 2 hours 28 minutes
MPAA rating: Not rated
by Jaime Davis, The Fixer
How does it feel to watch everything you want, or think you want, get swept up, absorbed by someone or something else? Does it eat at you, slowly, like the consistent gnawing by a small animal? Does it pick you apart, deliberately, piece by piece, like the unmasking of a tangerine? Does it hurt you? A pulsating swell that spreads throughout you with the slow deliberation of poured honey? Or does it burn?
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