Reviews

It was all going so well, till the last 20 minutes came... The writers just dropped a twist at the very end but didn't bothered to show us the aftermath, hence it feels rushed and lazy writing.

I personally think season 4 was not up to its predecessors, "Connor's Wedding" is rated 9.9? I mean, the fact that was possibly the less expected thing to happen in the show doesn't make it the greatest, I think Logan's death was the first and biggest mistake of a nosedive in the series script. Logan Roy was the whole deal, the heart of the story, you just don't go and cut him off to gain uncertainty and then finish a great show to a poor finale like this one.

What was Shiv thinking? "Oh, we don't know, just wanted to make a spicy twist, but we won't bother to show you what her relationship with Tom would be now"

I could go on and on with the tiny loose ends, but i'm too pissed to continue writing, like "Succession" writers were too short-minded and lazy to bring us an epic closure that we deserved, but we so didn't.

I honestly expected more, the trailer looked much more promising (like many other movies, most of them actually).

My big first problem with Yesterday was Lily James, I think she is a really annoying person and therefore, a huge miscast. My second problem and shocking surprise was the horrid Kate McKinnon... since she's always a terrible choice for a role, even in all the stupid comedies she makes, I was dissapointed that she was cast in a more serious movie and more in knowledge of who the director is, ¿what happened there Mr. Boyle?

But the main problem with this movie was the love element, it was so unoriginal, unrealistic and predictable, it totally ruined the film's soul.

Also, there's never a moral or a motivational message for the musicians, the dreamers or the viewers in general.

In the end, it seems like the plot was written on a napkin in a bar and then handled to a gen z team who developed the script, the production design, then raffled the director chair and a 'dude' won and directed it.

Btw, wth was the scene of 'John Lennon' for??

My first Lee Chang-dong's, "Burning", felt as a Hanekesque with a Lynchesque ¿twist?/ending. This masterpiece provides more questions than answers, and that is why I loved it so much, that intrigue and growing mystery filmed in beautiful pace.

Whether was all fantasy or not, we can't escape the great details in this film such as the cinematography, the script and the performances. My favorite part of the movie was Hae-mi's half naked dance in the sunset with jazz music in the background, it was just astonishing.

In the end, I was left with my questions unanswered, but it's quite interesting, I think, that the director makes you think, and think hard; to idealize your own explanation, and therefore, to get to the conclusion that you think is the best.

My own was that it's all just the novel Jong-su (if he is the writer writing about himself as mentioned in a part of the film) is writing. Near the end of the movie, he's briefly seen writing in a room that looks exactly as Hae-mi's, so that's what brought me to my belief.

Of course this is just a plain explanation, there are quite more elements to observe in the plot such as the meaning of set the greenhouses on fire (a metaphor for human purge perhaps?), the trial of Jong-su's father, the cat, Hae-mi's disappearance, and so on; All of this I can only imagine it and play in my mind with it, but it's quite difficult to put it into words so I won't make this an all written thought conclusion but a simple one. Only a thing I can be more certain about is that Ben and Hae-mi were just fictional characters that he created for his novel, or... in the beginning it was all true, in a timeline of reality: since Jong-su meets Hae-mi until her arrival from Africa and a not-well-received Ben, and since he feels jealous, he begins to write the novel with those people and he as the main characters, as a way to free his mind and ultimately kill Ben, at least in a fictionalized way. I don't know, the possibilities are infinite (alike Vanilla Sky, if you will), that's why Burning is a superb film, because it makes you reason it and enjoy the film at the same time.

Also, the score is awesome, particularly the music in the final credits.

In my *Best Films of 2018 Top Ten List*, I place Burning in spot #3.