MISOGYNY AND DEFORMED BILDUNG IN BURN-

ING
女性嫌惡 ( 憎惡 ) 與歪曲成長

WOOSUNG KANG 姜于聲 SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY

 CINEMATIC UMWELT OF LEE CHANG-DONG

 Tight Causality 因果律

 Human Perseverance or Resilience 彈性
 Suffering and Mourning of the Marginal

苦痛 , 哀悼 , 周邊人
 Cinematic Punctum + Ethical Affectivity

映畵的 刺戟 + 倫理的 感應 ( 感能 )
THE WORLD OF BURNING

 Broken Causality & Shattered Reality

 Ethical Ambiguity & Narrative Fragments
 Cinematic Equivocalness
 Lack of Social Antagonism
 A group portrait of Younger Generation
THREE APPROACHES

Narrative Loose Ends?

 A Real Story of Jongsu (a Harukian world)

- Oedipal drama, love triangle, male rivalry,

 A Real Story of Jongsu & His Fictional World (Haruki + Jongsu)

- Bildung as a writer, wish-fulfilment, a Faulkner in Haruki world

 A Pervert Fantasy of Jongsu (a Faulknerian world)

- Film as fiction, anger of youth, pathetic Survivalism

JONGSU’S FANTASY
 THREE OUTSIDERS

Past Present
Repression Foreclosure

Jongsu Ben
Masculin Lack of
e Bildung Lack
Haemi
Lack
Nothing
Future
Disavowal
HAEMI’S DANCE
JONGSU’S DIVIDED WORLD OF FANTASY

Creating by Writing Destroying by Burning

Love with Haemi Self-punishment for Parents
To be a Man like Ben Loser’s Revenge to H & B
PERVERT SURVIVALISM

Plotting Courtly Love and Rescue Fantasy

 Fantasying Haemi as an ideal woman w/o sexuality
 Respecting Ben as a model masculinity (ex, a Porsche, a chic flat, marihuana, ennui…etc.)

In Reality, as a Loser Inquisitor

 Making Haemi a slut (“Only whores do that!”)
 Turning Ben into a cruel, yuppie monster
LESSON OF THE MOVIE

 A perverse Story of a young Misfit (cf. Kiwoo in Para-

site)
 Anger, hatred, and misogyny of young men in Korea
 What went wrong with these young men and women?
 Social message: “Hey you, don’t you see they are burn-
ing?”