{"id":566486,"date":"2023-03-02T14:52:57","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T11:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-past-lives-take-one-and-film-reviews\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T14:52:57","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T11:52:57","slug":"watch-past-lives-take-one-and-film-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-past-lives-take-one-and-film-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch  Past Lives | TAKE ONE and Film Reviews"},"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-6a4e0876ed83d\" 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-6a4e0876ed83d\" 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-past-lives-take-one-and-film-reviews\/#%E2%80%9CPast_Lives_TAKE_ONE_Watch_Online%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Past Lives | TAKE ONE Watch Online&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CPast_Lives_TAKE_ONE_Watch_Online%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Past Lives | TAKE ONE Watch Online&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/takeonecinema.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/berlin23-e1677161512861.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"210\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-39054\" srcset=\"https:\/\/takeonecinema.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/berlin23-e1677161512861.jpg 175w, https:\/\/takeonecinema.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/berlin23-e1677161512861-125x150.jpg 125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\"\/><strong>During Celine Song\u2019s exquisite and delicate PAST LIVES \u2013 a deeply human film about the pain of missed chances and the hard truths \u2013 they introduce the Korean phrase \u201cIn-Yun\u201d. The concept of \u201cIn-Yun\u201d speaks about fate and predestination. It says that the lives you lived previously, and how the minute connections we make throughout our time in this world, reverberate through the layers of life until they finally coalesce for people to find each other.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>For Nora (a spellbinding Greta Lee), it\u2019s Korean nonsense and only brought up as an attempt to seduce her future husband Arthur (John Magaro). For her childhood friend, Jung Hae Sung (Yoo Teo, charming and full of beautiful anguish), who is \u201cvery Korean\u201d in both mannerisms and sensibilities, it gives him hope that his path will once again cross with Nora, their journey intertwined, having hopefully reached the 8000 layers of \u201cIn-Yun\u201d that finally allows them to be together.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s 2000, and 12-year-old Nora Moon is about to emigrate to Canada. She\u2019s leaving behind her Korean name Na Young, her childhood crush Hae Sung, and a Seoul life too small for her big Nobel Prize-filled ambitions. The two children \u2013 best friends and mutual crushes \u2013 have an innocent affection for each other and a juvenile worldview, making their impending separation all the more painful. As they depart their fateful first date, Hae Sung\u2019s single and abrupt \u201cbye\u201d shows his misguided youthful virtuousness that prevents him from engaging with his sincere emotions. The end of the date signals her leaving Korea, leaving behind her childhood as she ascends the stairs to her new world outside of the confines of the Korean culture she bemoans.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIn a narrative structure that echoes Richard Linklater\u2019s Before Trilogy, Song sets her gorgeous, intimate portrait of love, regret, and whether fate and desire align across three time frames, each separated by twelve years.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In a narrative structure that echoes Richard Linklater\u2019s Before Trilogy, Song sets her gorgeous, intimate portrait of love, regret, and whether fate and desire align across three time frames, each separated by twelve years. In 2012, the two long-lost best friends reconnect after they find each other through <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>. Their exchanges begin timid and frightful, their lives having metamorphosed from their simple 12-year-old selves. Hae Sung has spent five years doing mandatory military service. In contrast, Nora has had years in western school, slowly acclimating to those western ways that have s<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>ped a bit of her Korean identity away. She no longer speaks Korean with anyone but her mother, who doesn\u2019t even call her Na Young anymore. <\/p>\n<p>The duo\u2019s Skype conversations become increasingly frequent, their intimate conversations never turning sexual, but the carnal tension beneath is palpable. Song perfectly captures the ignorance to new love\u2019s transience and the spark of newly rekindled love, complete with cheesy grins and prolonged goodbyes in a perfectly pitched montage that involves recollecting their childhood together. Specifically that Nora \u2013 who was once a crybaby \u2013 no longer cries since \u201cnobody cared anymore\u201d, so she had to suck it up. For Nora, Hae Sung was one important person who cared not just when she cried but would provide comfort for her in his early teens. Hae Sung, now in his 20s, continues comforting those people emotionally hurt as the opening scenes of the 2012 segment show him consoling his crying friend.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a small, subtle exchange in the 2024 section of Song\u2019s intimate, tender film. Having met up in New York with the \u2018vacationing\u2019 Hae Sung, Nora mentions how she returned to Seoul years earlier and attempted to contact him. It\u2019s never said directly, nor does Hae Sung probe into her motivations for it. Still, the implication and subtext of Greta Lee\u2019s stunning performance perhaps indicate Nora was trying to see if Arthur was who she wanted. Perhaps she wants to see if the \u201cIn-Yun\u201d pull of Hae Sung was stronger than her ambitions and affection for a good man \u2013 one that can get her a green card, furthering her career opportunities. 2024 Hae Sung, who is deliberating over the idea of an impending proposal, feels like the mirror image of this. He\u2019s faked a vacation to see the girl he hasn\u2019t been on the same continent as for 24 years. For the two friends, though, there is only a shadow of a memory retained: a distortedly affectionate image in their heads of that little girl and little boy experiencing a crush and the 20-something kids who would provide such distant affection to each other that it would give Nora a literal skip in her step. <\/p>\n<p>But longing and desire can only go so far as this platonic love story complicates matters for both their settled lives. Husband Arthur \u2013 played by a career-best and wonderfully vulnerable John Magano \u2013 is on the periphery. Indeed, the opening shot shows the two friends together, facing toward each other, with Arthur just off to the side. Song even plays it for anguished laughs at Arthur\u2019s helpless misery. It\u2019s not his story, but Magano\u2019s pain is felt rippling through the fabric of what their bond means as he says to Nora while the two lie together, \u201cyour story is better\u201d (which it is). Best friends separated by huge ambitions and cultural expectations, reunited 25 years later? It\u2019s been done to death, but Song refreshingly and deftly inverts that love triangle trope in a way that\u2019s less about tempting Nora with infidelity and more about reminding her of Seoul life and the pieces of her innocence she left behind. These are mature adults sorting through their heightened emotions healthily and through respect. As they say themselves, they\u2019re no longer the babies they were. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAffair <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a> like David Lean\u2019s BRIEF ENCOUNTER and Park Chan-Wook\u2019s DECISION TO LEAVE use the idea of longing for a partner other than your own as the basis for their plots and character motivations. Instead, Song\u2019s movie tackles those minute connotations of missed opportunities by holding herself back from romanticising the duo\u2019s relationship.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Affair movies like David Lean\u2019s BRIEF ENCOUNTER and Park Chan-Wook\u2019s DECISION TO LEAVE use the idea of longing for a partner other than your own as the basis for their plots and character motivations. Instead, Song\u2019s movie tackles those minute connotations of missed opportunities by holding herself back from romanticising the duo\u2019s relationship. By embracing this Korean idea of \u201cIn-Yun\u201d, Song weaves the lives of Nora and Hae Sung together, bound not just by fate and friendship for the next thousands of layers but teaching these mature characters that the concept itself is trivial in the grand scheme \u2013 they can only live their life the way it has gone. What will be, will be. <\/p>\n<p>Song composes this lyrical, melancholic film with the confidence of a director at the height of their career. She finds pathos in the potentially mundane creases of a marital bed and a poor internet connection. Christopher Bear and Daniel Rossen\u2019s contribution \u2013 an elegant tinkling score \u2013 bolsters the emotional intensity. Shabier Kirchner\u2019s soft lights, reflections, and deep colour palette glaze the film in tranquility and highlights ideas around the refracted lives stuck in thousands of layers of longing. <\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s often spouted that great visual effects, long takes and bombastic action scenes are \u201cmovie magic\u201d, but the things that look simple are often the hardest to accomplish. PAST LIVES perfectly flows from beat to beat with aching precision and evokes guttural melancholy over and over again. Emotions are sometimes the hardest thing to achieve in film, often manipulative and intrusively persuasive, but what heights of emotion Song achieves in such little time is a masterfully refined craft: a simple, final shot of Nora crying is \u201cmovie magic\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Past Lives | Official Trailer HD | A24\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kA244xewjcI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\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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