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maggiecheungs · 3 months

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“Yearning, by Mikio Naruse, is one of my favourite films, and I loved the way restraint became the main emotion throughout that film. The question became how to do it. I decided to go back to basics, to really play with the bare minimum in the screenplay. I didn’t want all these subtle emotions expressed through words, but at the same time I wanted to make sure the audience fully understood, and felt, how the characters were feeling.” —Park Chan-wook on the inspirations for Decision to Leave

Final scene of Decision to Leave (2022) // final scene of Yearning (1964)

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escapismthroughfilm · 1 year

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bioskoop · 2 months

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#decision to leave #kmovie #tang wei #hae il park #movie scenes #gifs

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welcome-to-the-cafe · 11 months

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Obsessed (2014) and Decision to Leave (2022)

If I had a dollar for every time a disaffected married Korean man with a respected job no longer has any love for his wife and instead falls for a mysterious Chinese woman who likes birds, I'd have two dollars, which could probably buy 1 lamb skewer in Flushing.

(Top: Decision to Leave, Bottom: Obsessed)

Both are heavy in symbolism, both mostly follow the perspective of the man, both have him go through an existential crisis as result of his affair, and both end in tragedy. Only one of them actually uses a Chinese actress though, Tang Wei, who is as frightening as ever. It almost seemed like her character in Lust Caution survived execution and grew to become a real killer.

What is interesting to me is that Korean media seems to regard Chinese women, and maybe Chinese people in general, with a kind of uncouthness, roughness, and danger that is nevertheless alluring and exotic. I think of how much Koreans love Twice's Tzuyu. In both these movies, the Chinese woman is looked down upon by Korean society at large, which in turn forces her under the care of exploitative men. Shunned by society externally, she becomes connected to a sensitive Korean man who begins to reject the society internally. The man becomes obsessed with the beautiful foreigner, the obsession driven by the taboo nature. Their affair (steamy or metaphorical) causes both to enter a downward spiral that ends in disaster and death. I will say, the execution of this affair is a lot better in Decision to Leave; the reason for demise is not a straightforward "heartbreak", but a more complex mutually parasitic/destructive relationship. Tang Wei's character claims she didn't truly begin to love the detective until he had violated his convictions as a law enforcer to allow her to escape justice for the crime he just solved. In contrast, Lim Ji-yeon's Chinese woman is very...passive. She resigns herself to her role in the society, though it was brave of her to refuse the colonel's final advances. Sometimes it takes courage to be unromantic.

These two subdued Chinese beauties also remind me of Shu Qi's character in "I Married A Gangster", who is a ill-tempered kungfu fighting bad b*tch who is in Korea for some reason. I didn't continue the movie after 5 minutes because the sword dance she was doing in the beginning that ended in her massacring the attending mafia felt very cringe and stereotypical.

This instance in turn brings up Detective Ma in Extreme Job, the relentless (male) cop who displays an arsenal of surprising talents, one of which is speaking Chinese (which is barely discernable to me) to a group of drug-selling Chinese gangsters.

We can go into all sorts of analysis about where these archetypes come from, but I won't do that; I'm just gonna admit it's a little fun being seen as vaguely unwholesome.

#kevin watches #decision to leave #obsessed #tang wei #hae il park #lim ji yeon #song seung heon #cho yeo jeong

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zumrud-watches · 1 year

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Decision to Leave (2022)

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moviedungarees · 1 year

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"Decision to leave", from the director of "Oldboy" and "The Handmaiden" had very big shoes to fill, and in my opinion it kind of did.

Movies about murder are very popular now, yet Park Chan-wook made it into not so much a mystery driven movie than a relationship driven one. Main characters are often framed on a screen together, fighting between emotions and duties. Slowly both of them are changing, and the growth of the characters is so subtle, you see it only after the movie is over.

I love the music, the acting, and the photography in this picture, but more than this, I definitely love the direction. After this movie I'm more than confident, Park is one of the greatest directors of this generation.

Still, the whole movie is a bit long and with the slow pacing it was hard to focus for me from time to time.

See you in the audience!

~ Movie Dungarees

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osugna · 1 year

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A gorgeously made and gripping romance tucked inside a murder mystery. The tension of contrasts lie at the heart of the story: desire and duty; love and suffering; mountain and ocean.

7.8/10

#decision to leave #Park Chan-Wook #tang wei #hae il park #movie #b #2022

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pygartheangel · 1 year

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