Decision To Leave Movie Review: Park Chanwooks Cannes Hit Is An Erotic Thriller In Which Nobody Gets Naked
© Provided by Indian ExpressA woman enters the life of a police detective who suffers from insomnia and lets go in director Park Chan-wook's latest film, Release Decision. Widowed women are attracted not for cultural reasons, but for a healthy obsession. This is a twisted story of longing and longing, a sexually suggestive story that no one can resist. As Wong Kar Wai in Alfred Hitchcock's Love Meets Vertigo.
Derivative tone aside, Park's visual signature remains distinctive and full of symbolism, even when the story is barely intelligible. It's hard to understand what happened in the first place. The plot is more confusing than the puzzles. Parks' major stylistic shift—characters enter and exit undetected—though it doesn't put the heroes in the same room—complicates matters further.
But as is common in hit TV series, it cuts down on any separation anxiety these characters may be feeling. Still, the scenes close together, where they share intimate moments—a hastily prepared Chinese meal and a trip to a Buddhist temple—feel less lively than they should.
Park Hae-il plays the simple-minded Hae-jun, while Tang Wei plays the glamorous woman Seo-rae, a Chinese immigrant whose husband falls while traveling at high altitudes. Seo-rae becomes the prime suspect due to her inability to display an appropriate level of grief over their deaths. Hye Joon is immediately attracted by his mysterious aura. Their chemistry is first felt in the interrogation scenes, with Park making it more of a visual than any of 30 Marvel films. And that's work not from the GDP of a small country, but from two people sitting next to each other, eating an expensive bento box.
The decision to call it quits has more in common with the filmmaker's recent output - his English debut Stoker and the psychological period drama The Handmaiden - than it does with his early 2000s exploitation films. With Bong Joon-ho and Kim Ji-won, Park ushered in a new wave of South Korean filmmaking, which paved the way for TV melodrama and YA "content". But nearly defiantly, the three Korean cinema shooters double down on their creativity.
Park's decision to leave was stylistically consistent , but perhaps not always in the film's favor. Whatever the romantic crux of the story, the allusion to police procedure disappears, and so does Park's narrative (accidentally). An anime by Seo-rae present - ils complètent leur "relation" en révélant l'esprit de l'autre, but surtout pas leur corps - Hae-joon a raison d'éviter de "resoudre" the mort suspect of his son mari pendant very long. as much as he can.
But things get complicated when his co-workers get angry over his behavior and his wife starts to smell bad. Mind Games is in the middle of a game, which is a development I won't get into here. But the plot unfolds with clinical precision in a constant struggle with an unexpected and illegitimate romance. This film is anonymous, but mysteriously unknown.
Regardless, Decision to Leave was a film with some great ideas about midlife crisis and male privilege, but director Park scrapped it. Fell on the way to his movie.
Decision to leave
Director - Park Chan-wook
Actors - Tang Wei, Park Hae Il
Rating - 2.5/5
