Burning Man – Movie Review
Director: Jonathan Teplitzky
Writer: Jonathan Teplitzky (Screenplay)
Cast
- Matthew Goode (The King’s Man)
- Rachel Griffiths (Hacksaw Ridge)
- Bojana Novakovic (Drag Me to Hell)
- Eddie Davis (The Babadook)
- Kerry Fox (Shallow Grave)
Plot: An English chef with a chic restaurant on Bondi Beach trying to put his life and his relationship with his son back on track while surrounded by women.
Runtime: 1 Hour 50 Minutes
There may be spoilers in the rest of the review
Story: Burning Man starts when chef Tom (Goode) finds his life spiralling out of control. His wife Sarah (Novakovic) gets sick and he is left to care for his son Oscar (Heanly) alone. This sees Tom sleeping with any woman he can get his hands on and showing a destructive attitude to life.
Tom gets to look back on his life and his time with his wife, as he looks to move on to his future. He finds his life becoming more complicated as the bigger problems about his future with Sarah would go.
Verdict on Burning Man
Burning Man is a romantic drama that follows a couple’s painful journey through one of their cancer sufferings. It shows how the widowed husband ends up going down a destructive spiral. The movie gets to jump between the suffering and the aftermath, showing how he wasn’t prepared for the next stage of his life.
This is a movie that jumps around a lot, this does make it difficult to keep up. With this decision it becomes messy to watch and even with the big message involved, we struggle to stay with this movie. There is a clear message about self-destruction and what death can cause to people we love.
Final Thoughts – Burning Man is a messy time-jumping movie.