Decision to leave
8
2022
Summary
A detective investigating a man's death in the mountains meets the dead man's mysterious wife in the course of his dogged sleuthing.
“The wise man admires water, the kind man admires mountains.” -Confucius
Impossible romance and the internal conflict between desire and morality make it a captivating addition to Park’s filmography – a stunning sea-swept crime romance, about lonely people who know their attraction to one another is ill-fated at best.
It is a slow-burn study in tension between characters who are drawn to each other despite knowing from the outset that they are playing a dangerous game.
The movie also had this really good shot of ants walking over the dead mans eye. The thing that made it stand out further was that the camera was seeing or showing this scene to us from the inside of his eye. You can see through the surface of the cornea that a blurry thing is moving on its surface.
Dialogues
Jung Hae Joon: If grief envelops some like a crashing wave, there are some to whom it spreads slowly, like ink in water.
Jung Hae Joon: You know where dignity comes from? From pride. I was a proud policeman. But after going crazy for a woman, I ruined an investigation. Now I’m completely shattered.
Jung Hae Joon: Killing is like smoking. Only the first time is hard.
Song Seo Rae: Maybe I went to Ipo to become one of your unresolved cases.
Song Seo Rae: The moment you said you loved me, your love ended. And the moment your love ended, my love began.
