Burn The Stage: A review

Burn The Stage: I Think I Understand Better Now

By

Marsha Night

To be honest, I thought that the film was just going to be a cinematic version of what we saw in the YouTube documentary, about one minute in I realised that was not the case.

For those of us who have seen the Wings tour on the YouTube documentary, some of the scenes were familiar throughout the film but these scenes seemed to be from a different view point - closer and focused on the boys’ relationship with each other, and themselves.

We got to see how BTS wind down and let off some steam in the middle of a tour - some of the footage was from the crew and others from the boys own cameras.

I am trying to keep it very short and vague as to not go into enough detail to spoil it for people who have not yet seen it but happen upon this review.

I have taken away quite a lot from this view into BTS' life, and decided to write my thoughts down below. 

What I will say is that their world is a really scary place to be and it seems to be a never ending balancing act between who they are as individuals and who they are as BTS.

They have an extremely hard time and are particularly harsh on themselves for things that cannot be helped or isn't really their fault because they feel they need to be perfect, for each other and us.

They are pushing themselves to dangerous (but consented and guided) limits physically and mentally daily to keep up with the image they created and we have come to expect.

They are amazing individual people with such a good moral grounding, they are all so young but living with such a weight and are keeping it together because they are together.

As a group, as BTS they are a force of nature, bouncing off each other with talk, ventures and familiarity that you see when family are together.

They love each other fiercely. If one hurts, they all hurt. No one is above another. They have a bond of family, they are brothers.

Their world revolves around ARMY. They state that non of their dreams and visions would have happened if it wasn't for ARMY supporting them through the years.

They have such love for ARMY and regard them to be the highest award of all. They say that ARMY is part of the reasons why they want to continue making music for many years to come.

To close this off  and wrap it up for you these are my last observations:

Bang Pd has his head and his heart in the right place. He cleary cares about BTS and acts as a voice of reason and also comfort to them.

Each individual member stood out in this film, but I really need to say this about one who really came through the film and suprised and calmed me all at the same time.

Min Yoongi.

I knew a side like this existed in him, but not to the extent it was. Also as you may hear his voice throughout the entirety of the film, you will realise just how deep (emotionally) Yoongi is, how much passion and love he has for the group and his craft.

His words had me in tears - it was just an emotion I'd never seen or heard from him before, and it made me realise just how separate the members actually are as themselves from their characters in BTS.

Overall, a really good heartfelt invitation and showing of BTS as BTS, and BTS as Kim Namjoon, Kim Seokjin, Min Yoongi, Jung Hoseok, Park Jimin, Kim Taehyung, and Jeon Jungkook.

Marsha