Writer in non-heating conditions 8 years after the film about poetry, Lee Chang-don took as the basis of the plot the story of Murakami & #39; Burn the shed' and made a film about prose. The unwritten novel of young Jon-su, a graduate of the faculty of literary creativity, has not even a topic: the world around seems to the guy a complex puzzle, and the events that are taking place are disturbing and sad. His mother left him as a child 16 years ago, his father is sitting in the detention center and waiting for a sentence, a cheerful childhood friend He-mi suddenly appears in Jon-su’s life and tells him about a strange distant past he does not remember. Ben, a wealthy young man whom He-mi begins to reach after a trip to Kenya, causes John-su anxiety mixed with jealousy.
Difficulty squeezing out words, John-su as if in a cloud of fog moves from one episode of his life to another and finds only the strength to absorb images, words, sounds and colors, skillfully and tastefully prepared by the director. The beauty of scenes such as the evening on the porch of John-su’s house, where three young people try to relax as much as they can, for some reason drowns out the social motive that was introduced by the director into the class-neutral story of the Japanese. Jon-su and He-mi are not rich, and Ben lives in a luxurious house, travels the world and drives ' Porsche' John-su’s father suffers because of his desire for justice, Jon-su himself reproaches He-mi for frivolity, and Ben declares that there are no concepts for him as an element (!) ' right' and ' wrong'. Ben’s element of beauty seeps into the film, turning it into a visually luxurious creation and thereby constraining Jon-su, who, unlike He-mi, does not want to be carried away by the instinct that simultaneously exists here and in far Africa, but in which it becomes difficult to recognize himself.
John-su loves the social and moral Faulkner. Ben’s element appears to him as a social class that dictates its will to the rest, a class for which the line between work and entertainment has been erased, because in the will to power only a flutter in the chest remains significant absolutely regardless of what you do.
Wise Midja in 'Poetry' was able to defeat the elements with her poem, and the young Jon-su is so inexperienced that the novel for him is like that Africa. The defeat of John-su turns out to be the bitter inevitability of losing yourself, which you take with a sense of moral disappointment from the ending of the film, similar to the one experienced by a person who wanted to enter the capital’s university, but found himself among the students of an agricultural technical school, after which you will go out of grief to burn old greenhouses and barns.
7 out of 10
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