{"id":451658,"date":"2022-05-23T19:49:09","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T16:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-decision-to-leave-review-a-dazzling-and-mischievous-murder-mystery\/"},"modified":"2022-05-23T19:49:09","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T16:49:09","slug":"watch-decision-to-leave-review-a-dazzling-and-mischievous-murder-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-decision-to-leave-review-a-dazzling-and-mischievous-murder-mystery\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;Decision to Leave&#8217; Review: A Dazzling and Mischievous Murder Mystery"},"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-6a40e01ea92b9\" 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-6a40e01ea92b9\" 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-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-decision-to-leave-review-a-dazzling-and-mischievous-murder-mystery\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Decision_to_Leave_Review_A_Dazzling_and_Mischievous_Murder_Mystery%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Decision to Leave&#8217; Review: A Dazzling and Mischievous Murder Mystery&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-decision-to-leave-review-a-dazzling-and-mischievous-murder-mystery\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Decision_to_Leave_Review_A_Dazzling_and_Mischievous_Murder_Mystery%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;Decision to Leave&#8217; Review: A Dazzling and Mischievous Murder Mystery&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-decision-to-leave-review-a-dazzling-and-mischievous-murder-mystery\/#optional_screen_reader\" >optional screen reader<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-decision-to-leave-review-a-dazzling-and-mischievous-murder-mystery\/#Read_More_About\" >Read More About:<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Decision_to_Leave_Review_A_Dazzling_and_Mischievous_Murder_Mystery%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Decision to Leave&#8217; Review: A Dazzling and Mischievous Murder Mystery&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Decision_to_Leave_Review_A_Dazzling_and_Mischievous_Murder_Mystery%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;Decision to Leave&#8217; Review: A Dazzling and Mischievous Murder Mystery&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n                        Nobody does convoluted like Park Chan-wook. Far beyond the point that Theseus himself would have given up and turned to a pile of desiccated bones in some dead-end nook, the Korean master behind \u201cOldboy\u201d and \u201cThe Handmaiden\u201d will be coolly sauntering through another of his immaculately intricate labyrinths, pausing very occasionally \u2014 with perhaps the slightest trace of irritation \u2014 to make sure the laggards in the back can keep up. The process should be maddening, but instead, as his new Cannes competition title proves, it\u2019s almost magical how his trail of elegant, glinting clues leads us out, blinking, into the light again. After the world-conquering success of Bong Joon-ho\u2019s \u201cParasite\u201d and the small-screen domination of \u201cSquid <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Game<\/a>,\u201d your new, sublimely accomplished Korean thriller obsession is here, and it is Park Chan-wook\u2019s \u201cDecision to Leave.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hae-joon (Park Hae-il, beautifully combining the classic noir archetypes of lovelorn patsy and dogged gumshoe) is an ace police detective. The youngest officer ever to make Inspector in bustling Busan, he is handsome, respected and h<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>ily married to a pretty, witty wife (Lee Jung-hyun). However they do not live together, as she works in the smaller seaside town of Ipo, a few hours\u2019 drive away, and Hae-joon, being on the homicide squad, needs the vice of the big city to thrive. Though even here, things are slow: the first conversation with his lanky, callow younger partner (Go Kyung-pyo, subject of some deliciously droll background gags) sees Hae-joon complain that there aren\u2019t enough murders for them to work on.<\/p>\n<p>So when a man\u2019s body is found at the base of a nearby mountain, Hae-joon is given the case. Which is how he meets the man\u2019s beautiful, enigmatic wife Seo-rae (a riveting, chameleonic Tang Wei), a Chinese-speaking eldercare worker whose apparent lack of concern at newfound widowhood piques Hae-joon\u2019s curiosity. He gets to know her, and continues staking out her apartment at night even after her alibi has convinced him of her innocence, partly because it\u2019s the only time the insomniac detective can get a good night\u2019s sleep. Curiosity flares into a strangely respectful sort of obsession, in which every boundary of familiarity that is crossed is tacitly condoned and reciprocated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDecision to Leave\u201d is essentially a love story, and it\u2019s a deeply sexy one, though there isn\u2019t a single sex scene, and Hae-joon and Seo-rae scarcely so much as touch, bar one riffling through the other\u2019s pockets or applying sweet-smelling lotion to their callused hands. Instead their soulmate-style bond \u2014 complicated, naturally, when Seo-rae\u2019s alibi turns out not to be as solid as it first appeared \u2014 is evoked by the two actors\u2019 innately believable natural chemistry, and the stunning choreography of certain scenes, whereby their gestures and movements sync up as though their bodies have always known one another.<\/p>\n<p>This harmony continues throughout, through a change of location (the action eventually moves to Ipo) and a change of hairstyle and husband for Seo-rae. But it\u2019s present right from their first real conversation, in a police interrogation room, when, after a delivered lunch of expensive high-end sushi (much to Hae-jon\u2019s partner\u2019s annoyance) they wordlessly clean up the table with the practiced efficiency of a long-married couple who have done it a thousand times.<\/p>\n<p>It is far from the only time the staging of a scene is more loaded with meaning than the words spoken. Kim Ji-yong\u2019s superb camerawork (no surprise he was also DP on Kim Jee-woon\u2019s gorgeous period spy movie \u201cThe Age of Shadows\u201d) seems to find new heights of expressivity without, somehow, becoming show-offy: A conversation in a stairwell remains visually interesting through use of perhaps the only two new angles of coverage on that hackneyed locale that exist. There are glorious overheads (torches searching woodland at night) and slicing symmetries (a car parked on a beachside highway, sea on one side, sand on the other) and an almost insultingly cool use of reflections. TV screens and windows overlay characters on top of one another despite them being in separate spaces, which sets up the odd gently surreal flourish when Hae-joon, who will be watching Seo-rae from afar, actually appears behind her in the room.<\/p>\n<p>And there are montages, accompanied by a woodwind score (from Cho Young-wuk) lush with romance and intrigue, that deliver a delirium of imagery that would be the centerpiece climax of any other film, but here is simply a debonair aside. Even when faced with the age-old conundrum of delivering backstory while keeping the audience engaged, Park is on inventive form. One expository monologue comes layered over an otherwise unrelated, but entirely thrilling rooftop footchase. Or maybe not so unrelated: It culminates in a highly unusual standoff in which Hae-joon and his quarry have a quick heart-to-heart about what men will do \u2014 what values they will betray, what peace of mind they will sacrifice \u2014 for love.<\/p>\n<p>Though \u2018Decision to Leave,\u201d in its unknowably bewitching female lead especially, shares some DNA with Park\u2019s twisted, baroque period piece \u201cThe Handmaiden,\u201d it is also breathtakingly modern. Smartphone (and smartwatch) <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a> quickly becomes integral to the story, and not only on a functional, information-conveyance level. Given the well-documented challenges that the internet poses not just to directors in search of a pretty visual, but also to mystery writers aware that 90% of Agatha Christie plots would be solved on page one with a Google search these days, Park\u2019s ability to lean into tech\u2019s formal and thematic cinematic potential is little short of revelatory. From the agonizing delays in a text-message conversation to the role that audio and video recordings play in the emotional corkscrew of Park and Cheung Seokyung\u2019s screenplay, there is a little kernel of profundity here, in the suggestion that the deathlessness of modern tech life has fundamentally changed the way we connect, the way we remember, the way we experience love and loss.<\/p>\n<p>Human perception is fallible: Is Seo-rae\u2019s dress blue or green? Human emotions are changeable: Does she love him or is she merely a very talented, sociopathic mimic? Compared to the lossless clarity and endless replay-ability of a recording \u2014 which can here be retrieved even from a phone thrown into the sea \u2014 memory is fickle, and thoughts and motivations cannot be known outside the locked box of your own heart. Yet if the heart of a lover is unreliable, it is also, as the surprising, sad yet wildly satisfying ending to this scintillating work of genre art proves, the only thing worth having.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-tags \/\/ a-children-icon-bullet lrv-u-font-family-primary u-letter-spacing-012 lrv-u-line-height-large lrv-u-color-brand-primary\">\n<h2 id=\"optional-screen-reader\" class=\"lrv-a-screen-reader-only\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"optional_screen_reader\"><\/span>\n        optional screen reader  <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<nav class=\"o-nav  o-nav lrv-u-border-b-1 u-border-color-brand-secondary-40 lrv-u-border-t-1 lrv-u-text-align-center lrv-u-padding-b-025 u-padding-t-050@desktop u-padding-t-050@tablet u-padding-t-050@mobile-max lrv-u-margin-t-2 lrv-u-margin-b-2\" data-dropdown=\"\">\n<h4 id=\"\" class=\"o-nav__title lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-font-family-secondary o-nav__title a-content-ignore u-line-height-140 u-letter-spacing-0002\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Read_More_About\"><\/span>Read More About:<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/nav>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n  !function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n    if (f.fbq) return;\n    n = f.fbq = function() {\n      n.callMethod ?\n          n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);\n    };\n    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n    n.push = n;\n    n.loaded = !0;\n    n.version = '2.0';\n    n.queue = [];\n    t = b.createElement(e);\n    t.async = !0;\n    t.src = v;\n    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n  }(window, document, 'script',\n      'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '586935388485447');\n  fbq('init', '315552255725686');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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