{"id":2172,"date":"2020-06-05T15:06:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T12:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/yourself-and-yours-movie-review\/"},"modified":"2020-06-05T15:06:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T12:06:00","slug":"yourself-and-yours-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/yourself-and-yours-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"#Yourself and Yours Movie Review"},"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-6a34832fd1005\" 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-6a34832fd1005\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-5' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-5'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-5' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-5'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/yourself-and-yours-movie-review\/#Simon_Abrams\" >Simon Abrams<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/yourself-and-yours-movie-review\/#Yourself_and_Yours_2020\" >Yourself and Yours (2020)<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>Yourself and Yours<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/review\/primary_image\/reviews\/yourself-and-yours-movie-review-2020\/yourself-and-yours-movie-review-2020.jpg\"><\/img><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section>\u201cYourself and Yours,\u201d the latest black comedy by Korean writer\/director Sangsoo Hong to receive an American theatrical release (it was filmed in 2016, and released later that year, as well as in 2017), is an exhausting, and mostly frustrating display of emotional scab-picking. Which is dis<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>ointing, though not quite unexpected, given that \u201cYourself and Yours\u201d is a film written and directed by Hong, a prolific and vigorously self-lacerating writer\/director whose self-mythologizing films somehow became even more self-absorbed after 2016, when Hong unsuccessfully filed for a divorce with his wife. This is the sort of unproductively detailed confessional fantasy that only depreciates in hindsight; the more we know about its subject, namely Hong, and his well-publicized affair with actress Minhee Kim, whose absence in \u201cYourself and Yours\u201d is glaring.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section>\n<p>\u201cYourself and Yours\u201d now feels like an unsteady bridge between Hong\u2019s pre- and post-2016 work since it\u2019s a characteristically disjointed <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> of vignettes about a drunken artist (Joohyuck Kim) who\u2019s obsessively worried about his partner (Yooyoung Lee) and what may or may not be her ulterior motives. Watching \u201cYourself and Yours\u201d in 2020, after five of Hong\u2019s six succeeding films have been released in America, is a bit like revisiting the scene of a crime years after it\u2019s been thoroughly picked over: there\u2019s some evocative stuff here, but even Hong\u2019s worst recent films are more gratifying than this.<\/p>\n<p>In \u201cYourself and Yours,\u201d frustrated painter Youngsoo (Kim) fixates on his withdrawn girlfriend Minjung (Lee) and her alcoholism. Kind of; sort of. Youngsoo doesn\u2019t actually know if Minjung is drinking heavily behind his back, though a couple of his friends have said as much to him anyway. Some of them, including Jaeyoung Park (Haehyo Kwon), try to confront Minjung, but she always eludes her accusers, possibly because the woman that Youngsoo and his friends confront says that she\u2019s Minjung\u2019s twin sister. I mean, who knows, maybe Minjung really does have a twin sister? That\u2019s just the first of several fruitless questions and pronouncements that Youngsoo hashes out over drinks with his gossipy buddies, and then while stalking Minjung outside her apartment, followed by some more drinking at nearby cafes, and then some more daydreaming about what Minjung\u2019s sister (or maybe it\u2019s Minjung?) does when she\u2019s not with him.<\/p>\n<p>Hong lays into Youngsoo\u2019s neuroses with the same wry sense of humor and barbed romanticism that has made him a critical darling. But several scenes in \u201cYourself and Yours\u201d only seem to exist to show us the various fruitless convolutions of Youngsoo\u2019s paranoiac fantasies, all of which involve Minjung (or a Minjung-like woman) meeting and rejecting her insistent, but superficially shy would-be suitors\u2019 attempts at \u201c[understanding] her completely.\u201d So some scenes back up Youngsoo\u2019s theory that \u201cIt&#8217;s all fake! All shitting and eating! True love! Only true love is worth anything. The rest is all formality, all crap!\u201d Others scenes confirm Hong\u2019s fascination with his characters\u2019 stream-of-conscious emotional process: &#8220;Everything in life is necessary! Nothing is useless.&#8221;\u00a0But while several of Hong\u2019s supporting characters\u2019 points-of-view are considered, most of them are obviously extensions of Hong\u2019s bruised ego, like the young barflies who speculate that Minjung isn\u2019t \u201cpitiful\u201d since she \u201csees a new man every night,\u201d while another says &#8220;It&#8217;s Youngsoo who&#8217;s pitiful. Our great Youngsoo, reduced to this.\u201d August Strindberg (or maybe Albert Brooks), this guy ain\u2019t.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section>\n<p>Youngsoo and Jaeyoung\u2019s dismal late-night tail-chasing sessions are only funny if you really like the one joke that Hong vigorously runs into the ground: these guys can\u2019t escape themselves, so every potentially romantic encounter becomes a new stage for their overwhelming anxieties. Even the funniest expressions of that theme\u2014a park-side meeting where Minjung conclusively dismisses Jaeyoung by saying: \u201cI don&#8217;t feel anything for you. Can&#8217;t be helped. Anyway, don&#8217;t call me anymore.\u201d\u2014are easy to shrug off. Likewise, Hong\u2019s subtly disorienting transition between sketch-like scenes is only sometimes effectively disorienting: Hong\u2019s signature use of long takes and his attendant fascination with pregnant pauses (and his actors\u2019 awkward body language) only adds unnecessary extra steps for moviegoers who have already gotten his joke, and are now waiting for him to go somewhere with it.   <\/p>\n<p>Youngsoo\u2019s stasis may be a theoretically rewarding punchline to Hong\u2019s acidic black comedy, but there\u2019s only so much to be gained from watching ugly, unaware characters drowning in their sorrows while lazily grasping for each other. First he says, \u201cI really love you. Nothing else matters.\u201d Then she says, \u201cWas it hard for you\u201d and seems to mean it, but only because she\u2019s obviously a projection of her creator\u2019s self-regard. \u201cDon\u2019t cry,\u201d he says: \u201cI understand.\u201d Your mileage may vary when it comes to this tedious sort of masochistic Cassavetes role-play, but that doesn\u2019t make Hong\u2019s latest American release any more illuminating, or less punishing.<\/p>\n<p><em>Available on Virtual Theatrical release today, 6\/5.<\/em><br \/><\/br><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure>\n<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Simon Abrams\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/user\/primary_image\/simon-abrams\/featured_Simon_Abrams.jpg\" title=\"Simon Abrams\"><\/img><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div><figcaption>\n<h5><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Simon_Abrams\"><\/span>Simon Abrams<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>Simon Abrams is a native New Yorker and freelance film critic whose work has been featured Esquire, the Village Voice and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section> <\/section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Yourself and Yours movie poster\" itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/movie\/movie_poster\/yourself-and-yours-2020\/large_yourself-and-yours-poster.jpg\" title=\"Yourself and Yours movie poster\"><\/img><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Yourself_and_Yours_2020\"><\/span> Yourself and Yours (2020) <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p> 86 minutes <meta content=\"PT86M\" itemprop=\"duration\"><\/meta><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<article target=\"_blank\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/blog_post\/primary_image\/features\/connecting-to-a-lost-score-by-johan-johannson-personal-effects\/thumb_pe.jpg\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p> about 22 hours ago <\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<article target=\"_blank\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/blog_post\/primary_image\/far-flung-correspondents\/malcolm-x-spike-lees-timeless-sermon\/thumb_x-image.jpg\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p> 2 days ago <\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<article target=\"_blank\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/blog_post\/primary_image\/interviews\/the-words-are-so-good-daveed-diggs-on-central-park\/thumb_Central_Park_Photo_010104.jpg\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p> 2 days ago <\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<article target=\"_blank\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/blog_post\/primary_image\/features\/short-films-in-focus-lowland-kids\/thumb_lowland-kids-2.jpg\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p> 3 days ago <\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/reviews\/yourself-and-yours-movie-review-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more Like this articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/social-media\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Social Media category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>if you want to watch Movies or Tv Shows go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/dizi.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dizi.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a> <\/span> for forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Yourself and Yours&#8221; \u201cYourself and Yours,\u201d the latest black comedy by Korean writer\/director Sangsoo Hong to receive an American theatrical release (it was filmed in 2016, and released later that year, as well as in 2017), is an exhausting, and mostly frustrating display of emotional scab-picking. 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