After the passing away of their mother, two brothers visit their ex-soldier father for the first time. They carry a jar of sea water and stalks of corn to try and make him remember his dark past. When he was in the Air Force, he raped their mother while the army was raping and plundering the homes of the Karen minority.
For the majority of its brief runtime, Kaung Myat Thu Kyaw’s “Burn Boys” is an enigma. Why do the brothers carry these random things? Do they mean something or they’re included to make the movie weird and “artsy”? Are they in some way connected with the Karen twins Johnny and Luther Htoo? Are they there to let us think about them or simply to make the short more surreal? Or about the conflicts at the end of the 90s, and as such, make us piece together what...
For the majority of its brief runtime, Kaung Myat Thu Kyaw’s “Burn Boys” is an enigma. Why do the brothers carry these random things? Do they mean something or they’re included to make the movie weird and “artsy”? Are they in some way connected with the Karen twins Johnny and Luther Htoo? Are they there to let us think about them or simply to make the short more surreal? Or about the conflicts at the end of the 90s, and as such, make us piece together what...
- 4/19/2022
- by Martin Lukanov
- AsianMoviePulse
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