Synopsis
Longing anticipation is the basic mood that fills up the screen in Daniel Burman's < Waiting for the Messiah > The overall yellow tone of the film seems to express the bleakness of the wander while pale blue tone reveals hardened spirit of the wander. The slow moving story without any major plot to speak of intensifies the tension in waiting for someone. The characters in the film are, believe it or not, waiting for the Messiah. They wander about as they wait for the Messiah, and during the wait, they make love, get wrapped up in misunderstandings, and work out their misunderstanding. But the Messiah never appears to the end. Not after the last candle is burnt out, not even long after Christmas? the Messiah never comes. Perhaps the Messiah was just a figure carved out by their imagination. Perhaps the very idea of waiting for the Messiah conceived to give them an opportunity to reflect on their frustrated and absurd lives. Look at the heartfelt dialogue of the last scene! What they needed all along was love. < Waiting for the Messiah > is a Buenos Aires version of Beckett's < Waiting for Godot >. For it? dealing of homosexuality and primal loneliness, the film brings to mind Wong Kar-Wai's < Happy Together >. < Waiting for the Messiah > is the second feature by Daniel Burman, who debuted in 1993. In his twenties, Burman's look at life is incredibly mature and insightful, especially in his depiction of life? bleakness. (KANG Sung-ryul)