NEW YORK — Park Chan-wook understands “Decision to Leave” isn’t the motionpicture you expect from him.
The South Korean filmmaker hasactually discovered stateside success with intriguing thrillers “Oldboy,” “Stoker” and “The Handmaiden.” But the twisty “Decision” is nearly completely totallyfree of bloodshed and bodice-ripping as it informs a story of prohibited love inbetween a wed investigator (Park Hae-il) and an attractive murder suspect (Tang Wei).
“There’s not as much nudity, violence or intriguing components that individuals (usually) designate to my works,” Chan-wook states, speaking through a translator at a Midtown hotel earlier this month. Here’s what else you requirement to understand about the Oscar confident.
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“Decision” (now in theaters in New York and Los Angeles; expands nationwide throughout October) starts with a dedicated longtime police called Hae-jun (Hae-il) as he examines a entrepreneur’s deadly fall from a mountaintop. The male’s evasive widow, Seo-rae (Wei), is called in for questioning and reveals little feeling about her hubby’s death, even laughing throughout the authorities interrogation.
Suspecting Seo-rae of murder, Hae-jun carriesout nighttime surveillances outdoors her home and makes home calls to probe her evenmore. He unintentionally befriends her in the procedure and ultimately falls in love, however thinkstwice to act on his sensations.
Chan-wook thinks all his movies are love at heart, however he purposefully leans into rom-com tropes with “Decision.” Like numerous lonesome rom-com heroines we’ve seen priorto, Seo-rae falls sleeping in front of her TELEVISION with a pint of ice cream every night. Her “meet-cute” minute with Hae-jun is throughout an interrogation, when he orders a takeout sushi supper at the authorities station and they have their “first date.” Later, they’re captured in the rain and share yearning looks under an umbrella.
“Even for this movie, when I’ve stated, ‘I (made) a romantic funny movie, as constantly,’ individuals laugh at me,” Chan-wook remembers. “But that’s how I view a lot of my movies: ‘Oldboy,’ ‘Thirst,’ ‘I’m a Cyborg, But That’s OKAY’ – these are all films about love. I constantly attempt to include funny to that as well.”
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With the character of Hae-jun, Chan-wook likewise desired to develop a investigator who’s simply a routine person: He’s often inefficient at combating and chasing down badguys, and goes through the movements when it comes to sex with his practical spouse (Lee Jung-hyun). The movie reveals the nitty-gritty of his task and how Seo-rae shocks him out of his regular.
In lotsof murder secrets, “the investigators are typically too violent or too clever,” Chan-wook states. “Of course, these are required aspects to make the motionpicture more intriguing. But in the investigator books that I grew up checkingout, the characters are much more sensible. Also, when you’re making a love story, you’d rather make a love story about a typical individual. Nobody discovers a love story of, for circumstances, Bill Gates enjoyable.”
“It’s a really various criminaloffense movie than what we’re utilized to,” Hae-il includes. “It begins really tedious with daily life and shifts into this roller rollercoaster of feelings.”
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In writing about “Decision,” lotsof reporters haveactually compared the movie to “Parasite,” Bong Joon-ho’s 2019 finest photo Oscar-winning social thriller. “After the world-conquering success of Bong Joon-ho’s ‘Parasite’ … your brand-new, sublimely achieved Korean thriller fixation is here,” Variety stated in its evaluation. Entertainment Weekly presumed that “Decision” might be “Korea’s next greatest cinematic export consideringthat ‘Parasite,’ ” while NPR agrees “the Korean movie market has another possible hit.”
Like “Parasite,” “Decision” had its world best at France’s Cannes Film Festival in May and hasactually been chosen by South Korea as its authorities entry for this year’s best foreign language movie Oscar. But the 2 motionpictures couldn’t be more various in design or tone.
“I guess it’s simply an automated response since they’re Korean movies,” Chan-