{"id":192269,"date":"2021-03-02T18:00:53","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T15:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-introduction-review-a-brief-deep-cut-of-hong-sangsoo-simplicity\/"},"modified":"2021-03-02T18:00:53","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T15:00:53","slug":"watch-introduction-review-a-brief-deep-cut-of-hong-sangsoo-simplicity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-introduction-review-a-brief-deep-cut-of-hong-sangsoo-simplicity\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;Introduction&#8217; Review: A Brief, Deep Cut of Hong Sangsoo Simplicity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a416905e7c36\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a416905e7c36\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-introduction-review-a-brief-deep-cut-of-hong-sangsoo-simplicity\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Introduction_Review_A_Brief_Deep_Cut_of_Hong_Sangsoo_Simplicity%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Introduction&#8217; Review: A Brief, Deep Cut of Hong Sangsoo Simplicity&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-introduction-review-a-brief-deep-cut-of-hong-sangsoo-simplicity\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Introduction_Review_A_Brief_Deep_Cut_of_Hong_Sangsoo_Simplicity%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;Introduction&#8217; Review: A Brief, Deep Cut of Hong Sangsoo Simplicity&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Introduction_Review_A_Brief_Deep_Cut_of_Hong_Sangsoo_Simplicity%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Introduction&#8217; Review: A Brief, Deep Cut of Hong Sangsoo Simplicity&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Introduction_Review_A_Brief_Deep_Cut_of_Hong_Sangsoo_Simplicity%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;Introduction&#8217; Review: A Brief, Deep Cut of Hong Sangsoo Simplicity&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n                        Like cracking a window in a stuffy room, it sometimes feels as if Hong Sangsoo\u2019s films are where festival lineups go when they need to breathe. The 2021 Berlin Film Festival takes a quick, deep lungful with \u201cIntroduction,\u201d an airy 66-minute sampler of everything the Korean director\u2019s fans admire, which is coincidentally everything his detractors dislike. But despite the familiarly strange, gossamer-spiderweb pattern of glancing encounters and dropped connections, \u201cIntroduction\u201d is not as featherweight as it might first <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ear. And contrary to its title, it\u2019s an expansion pack rather than an entry-level starter kit for the Hong Cinematic Universe.<\/p>\n<p>The filmmaker however needs no introducing to the Berlinale. He\u2019s been in competition here four times before, most recently last year, when the delightful \u201cThe Woman Who Ran\u201d brought him the Silver Bear for best director. The black-and-white \u201cIntroduction,\u201d on which he acts for the first time as his own cinematographer (in addition to directing, writing, editing and composing the plaintive little ditty that sounds out at the halfway point), is not as funny as \u201cWoman.\u201d It sadly does not feature a cat who can apparently yawn on cue. But as recompense, it has a little more gravity to it, which makes it perhaps less peripheral and more integral to Hong\u2019s ongoing, addictive project.<\/p>\n<p>Its already brief runtime is snapped in two, with the halves separated by a couple of years. Both parts are, loosely speaking, centered on a cross-generational introduction. First, Juwon (Park Miso), a student who has come to Berlin to study fashion, meets an artist (Kim Minhee) who is an old friend of her mother\u2019s (Seo Younghwa), and who will put Juwon up until she finds her own place. Two years later, back in Korea, Juwon\u2019s erstwhile boyfriend Youngho (Shin Seokho), who was so devoted to her that he <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a>ed to Berlin for a visit on a whim, meets a famous actor (frequent Hong surrogate Ki Joobong) who is a friend of <em>his<\/em> mother\u2019s (Cho Yunhee). The aging actor is also acquainted with Youngho\u2019s apparently estranged doctor father (Kim Youngho) \u2014 this we know because the opening scenes are set in the doctor\u2019s surgery where the actor has dropped by unexpectedly, delaying Youngho\u2019s own mysterious assignation with his dad.<\/p>\n<p>As always with Hong, it sounds much more complicated than it plays, especially given that this is his third film on the trot to eschew his previously trademark pretzel-shaped timelines in favor of a more straightforward chronology. Albeit one with a big gap in the middle and a dream sequence that is delivered as prosaically real.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the manner of Hong\u2019s presentation that makes his films so scintillating, or so infuriating if you\u2019re on the other side of the Great Hong Divide (crossing over is possible \u2014 I\u2019ve done it myself \u2014 but be warned, like a taste for olives or salted licorice, there\u2019s no going back). Interactions are full of pauses and awkwardnesses, some of them realistic, some of them heightened to almost theatrical effect. Hong\u2019s is the cinema of the oblique pattern, the imperfect echo, the repetition that changes meaning slightly with each new recitation.<\/p>\n<p>Motifs recur: Characters offer each other herbal tonics and cough drops, cigarettes and soju. Juwon comments on the painter\u2019s prettiness (fair enough, she\u2019s Kim Minhee) several times, just as Youngho is called upon to shyly accept compliments about his good looks more than once. And in some indefinable, metaphysical way, the beginning and the end of the film loosely rhyme, with Youngho\u2019s doctor father pleading a desperate bargain with God as the film starts, and Youngo dreaming of Juwon confessing to him that she believes a recently contracted eye ailment is her \u201cpunishment\u201d for breaking up with him near its end.<\/p>\n<p>And at different times, each of the young people offer their elders the culturally respectful option of calling them by informal modes of address. (Amusingly, Kim Minhee\u2019s painter brushes this aside saying, \u201cHere, there is no formal and informal\u201d which is only true, even in liberal Berlin, until some disapproving Frau in a pharmacy gets shirty with your overfamiliar use of \u201cdu\u201d.) But the moments highlight a central pleasure in the kind of intricate relationship drama that is Hong\u2019s specialty: the care he takes to make every interaction a prism of public and private, professional and personal, intellectual and emotional facets. And then the care he takes, with his trademark crackpot zooms and crooked pans, to make it look like he took no care at all.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor him it was important, but for you it was a casual comment,\u201d says Youngho\u2019s mother wonderingly to the actor, who doesn\u2019t recall the words he said to Youngho that day in his father\u2019s surgery that sent the boy off on a new career tangent. But this tiny little movie makes seemingly effortless work of convincing us that a comment, a story, a film and maybe even a whole filmography can be both important <em>and<\/em> casual \u2014 in Hong\u2019s case, radically casual \u2014 at the same time. 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