'Director and co-writer Park Chan-wook’s dazzling, confounding, gorgeously crafted variation on a dangerously familiar film trope takes its component parts and comes up with something no one has ever built before,' writes critic Michael Phillips.
World-weary detective falls for sphinx-like widow in a murder case. Talk about the usual suspects! We have seen this setup once or twice.
We’re flung headlong into the story. Busan homicide detective Hae-joon is working two cases, and for a while we’re don’t know much to invest — or how much “Decision to Leave” will invest — in Plotline B. The A plot finds a mountain climber dead at the bottom of a peak outside Busan. His Chinese-born widow, Seo-rae , is conspicuously unemotional regarding her late husband’s fatal fall.
The detective has been married for 16 good-enough but increasingly distant years; his wife works in a power plant in a perpetually foggy seaside town a few hours from Busan. When the story zigs and zags to this locale, Park shifts gears to a different kind of movie. So many good filmmakers never seem to shake their influences and inspirations when they take on a genre. Park is different, and better.
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