Watched Korea's Burning (2:27:53) on Netflix. This movie won several awards and was nominated as Best Foreign Film at the Academy Awards the year before Parasite.

There is something non-Asian for me about the way this movie was directed, and not because it was partially based on Wiliam Faulkner's "Barn Burning". Its cinematic storytelling and its darkness remind me of how Luis Bunuel handled his Belle de Jour. The narrative is deliberately slow but smooth, as though it is being told by a friend who is sitting close beside you. All this with minimal set-ups--most of the shots are from handheld cameras--and apparently lighted mostly only by daylight, the sun, and even the evening sky. The atmospheric sounds are also great--they are haunting, containing faraway voices and sounds that make you feel that other stories are occurring simultaneously elsewhere. 

Though the movie claims to be about the isolation that the younger generation of Korea feels, it is also about the corruption of innocence, shot tenderly among three characters. It was extremely fascinating to me as a playwright: it seems that the director/writer checked out all the locations and settings first before putting together a story.

I'm still wondering how many sunsets it took to shoot that scene on the front porch of the farmhouse.