In addition to the film noir side of things, this obviously has one foot in the doomed, star-crossed, geographically-challenged couples pantheon with things like JR&tB's favorite Lovers of the Arctic Circle.
― Capital Radio Sweetheart (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 28 October 2022 15:24 (one year ago) link
Saw Decision to Leave without reading anything about it beforehand. Instantly thought of Hitchcock… Vertigo yes, but also Tne Birds, with which it shares a blue-green color palette. In fact, blue vs green is an important plot point in the film. The plot did lose me, though I’m not good with complicated plots in general (cue people to say the plot wasn’t at all complicated… well to me it was). The subtitles often felt stilted to me, though I saw the film with a Korean friend who said the translations were spot-on.
― Josefa, Sunday, 30 October 2022 20:30 (one year ago) link
"cue people to say the plot wasn’t at all complicated"
don't worry, that certainly won't be happening! So there might not be some better subs when this gets a dvd release.
― calzino, Sunday, 30 October 2022 21:04 (one year ago) link
it is a very complicated fast moving plot!
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Monday, 31 October 2022 02:09 (one year ago) link
Again, check your phone once and you've missed a crucial millisecond.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 31 October 2022 02:11 (one year ago) link
Including milliseconds on phones.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 31 October 2022 02:12 (one year ago) link
the moment where they jumped ahead thirteen months and now the lead actress is being beaten up by "slappy", happened so abruptly and with so little explanation that I heard someone in the audience loudly say "WHAT?" and then i realized it was me
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Monday, 31 October 2022 02:25 (one year ago) link
A dissenting voice: https://www.vulture.com/article/decision-to-leave-movie-review-directed-by-park-chan-wook.html
― Regex Dwight (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 31 October 2022 13:17 (one year ago) link
The kind of film where if you bend down to tie your shoelaces or something you miss a subtle editing choice your hands get wet because you're standing in an apocalyptic tide
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, October 19, 2022 4:56 AM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink
― sloop johnnin' skater (geoffreyess), Thursday, 3 November 2022 15:19 (one year ago) link
Lol!
― (We're Not) The Experimental Jet Set (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 3 November 2022 15:28 (one year ago) link
Trying to watch THIRST before it leaves Criterion.
― The Dark End of the Tweet (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 27 November 2022 22:56 (one year ago) link
https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/what-i-learned-translating-decision-to-leave
― A Kestrel for a Neve (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 27 December 2022 00:26 (one year ago) link