Known for his intense subject matter and fancy actions sequences, Park Chan-wook’s newest film, Decision to Leave is anything but extreme - at least on the surface.
This video contains major spoilers for Decision to Leave, which is streaming exclusively on MUBI in the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, India and Turkey. Watch it with 30 days free at
Park is often misunderstood as a director who prefers style over story; but in my opinion (and he says so too in his interviews), I think his style is always chosen meticulously to serve the story, and if it wouldn’t do any good to amplify the theme of the film, he wouldn’t unnecessarily use it. The same goes with everything else you often see in his films, including violence and action. While Decision to Leave may seem like an obvious story with blatant symbolism, it functions more like a visual poem that expresses its emotions with its rhythm, colour, tone, images, and sounds.
It’s a constant clash between complexity and simplicity, clarity and obscurity, mountains and oceans, Hae-jun and Seo-rae...
Beautiful.
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“Lightless Dawn” Kevin MacLeod () Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
“Ritual” Kevin MacLeod () Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
Timestamp
0:00 Introduction
1:08 A Boring Scene
2:00 The Trick
5:15 The Spoiler Shots
6:26 Misdirection
7:43 Actions
8:20 Repeating Ambiguity
8:40 Colors
10:18 Vertical Movement
12:14 Eyedrops
13:25 The Final Mystery
14:42 Decision to Leave
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