Episode 278: Schrödinger's Everything (Lee Chang-dong's "Burning" Pt. 1)

Very Bad Wizards

Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2024

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

David and Tamler fall under the spell of Lee Chang-dong’s 2018 masterpiece Burning, a movie where nothing is what it seems, or maybe it is. An alienated young man meets what seems like his dream girl from his small town, but she’s about to leave for Africa. Will he take care of her cat? Is there a cat? When she comes back she’s attached (maybe) to a slick rich guy played by Steven Yeun and then she disappears. What happened? What’s real and what’s a pantomime? Adapted from a Murakami short story that’s adapted from a Faulkner short story, this movie warrants a true VBW deep dive, so we had to do it in two parts. This is part 1. Plus another segment of our pet peeves. “Updating my priors,” “Fixed it for you,” faculty governance, and more, these are the things that really grind our gears.

Links:

Burning (2018) [wikipedia.org]

The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami (containing the short story "Barn Burning) [amazon.com affiliate link]

Barn Burning by William Faulkner [wikipedia.org]

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey everybody just a quick note David and I don't get together too often in person
0:04.9	but we will be doing that very shortly in one of the best places one of the most
0:09.6	fun places for that to happen new orlands lou Louisiana, just a little over a week from
0:14.7	right now, a week from when this episode gets released. We both arrive there
0:19.3	on the 20th at night and then we will be there through the 24th of February.
0:27.0	We are going to be at the Central APA, American Philosophical Association.
0:34.4	We are doing a panel presentation.
0:38.4	It's an invited symposium on public philosophy
0:42.4	chaired by former friend of the show or even still a friend of the show Eddie
0:47.0	Namius. Barry Lamb will be on this panel or in this symposium from Hi-Fi Nation and also a guest appearance on
0:55.4	our show, Regina Rini and also Eleanor Gordon Smith will be there. This is the
1:01.8	Wednesday afternoon 1 p.m. session at the Astor Crown Plaza in New
1:09.0	Orleans in the French Quarter on the border by Canal Street and I don't know how many people are going to
1:14.6	be at this session but if you are going to be there and you want to sneak in to see
1:18.7	our session or you even have registered and you can go in there legitimately we'd love to see you if not hit
1:26.3	us up if you're in town if you're in New Orleans at that time we can't promise
1:29.7	anything because we don't know our schedule but it would definitely be fun to meet up with some of you for a drink or to see some music or whatever.
1:38.0	You can email us at the very bad Wizards email or at our personal emails.
1:42.0	Yeah, so I hope to see some of you there.
1:43.7	We're staying somewhere in the Marony,
1:46.0	February 21st, Wednesday through Saturday.
1:49.1	All right, let's get back to the episode.
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