Burning - BEONING

Pitch

While making a delivery, a young courier, Jongsu, ran into a former neighbour, Haemi, whom he immediately fell for. Just back from a trip abroad, she had returned with Ben, a mysterious young man with money. As a disturbing love triangle began to develop between them, Ben confided his strange secret to Jonsu. Shortly afterwards, Haemi disappeared. ‘Burning’ is adapted from Barn Burning by Murakami. “This short story was rather disconcerting for me because it’s quite a strange story, but in fact nothing actually happens. However, in the end, I adopted the same point of view as Jung- mi, the co-scriptwriter, this mystery has a very cinematic dimension. We could make it into something larger and more complex. These gaping holes in the chain of events, the missing piece which prevents us from knowing the truth, refer to the mysterious world we live in today, this world where we clearly feel something is wrong without managing to define exactly what it is.” Lee Chang-dong