#347: Internal Affairs, Pt. 2 — Decision to Leave

The Next Picture Show

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Tv & Film, Film History, Film Reviews

4.6 • 858 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Park Chan-wook’s new DECISION TO LEAVE openly takes inspiration from David Lean’s 1945 classic BRIEF ENCOUNTER (along with VERTIGO, which we also considered for this pairing), but the extramarital affair at the center of Park’s film is much more complicated than that of its inspiration — a murder mystery will do that, after all. We do our best to unpack the pileup of telling details informing Park’s slow-burn romance, before bringing Lean’s film back into the discussion to explore how these two stories connect in their respective studies of forbidden love and judgmental societies, the romanticism of stolen moments, and the metaphorical power of fog. Plus, we nod to an episode that almost was in Your Next Picture Show, sharing our brief reactions to Ruben Östlund’s TRIANGLE OF SADNESS and some of the films we considered pairing it with. Please share your comments, thoughts, and questions about BRIEF ENCOUNTER, DECISION TO LEAVE, or anything else in the world of film, by sending an email to comments@nextpictureshow.net, leaving a short voicemail at 773-234-9730, or commenting on our Patreon (patreon.com/NextPictureShow), where you can also find bonus episodes and more. Works cited: “‘Decision to Leave’ brings back dark obsessions for ‘Oldboy’ director Park Chan-work,” by Tasha Robinson (polygon.com) Outro music: Jung Hoon Hee w/ Song Chang-sik, “Mist” Next Pairing: Stephen Frears’ DANGEROUS LIAISONS and Todd Field’s TAR Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sitting quietly once you've made the house all shiny.
0:04.0	Down time can be just fine playing bangers from the 90s.
0:08.0	Tea break.
0:09.0	Lunch break.
0:10.0	Maybe listen to the outbreak.
0:12.0	Sometimes it's not time for some tombola, right?
0:15.0	It's enjoying lasagna time, chilling with a book time,
0:18.0	or time to visit your nan time go on play some other time
0:22.6	put your phone down
0:23.8	Tombollah
0:24.7	Open for fun
0:26.4	Terms apply 18 plus gamblerware
0:28.7	org
0:29.3	It's very difficult to keep the line
0:34.5	between the past and the present
0:36.1	You believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?
0:42.8	We may be true with the past, but the past is not through with us.
0:50.2	Welcome back to the next picture show, a movie the week podcast devoted to a classic film in the way it's shaped our thoughts on a recent release.
0:57.0	I'm Tasha Robinson, here again with Genevieve Koski.
1:00.1	And Scott Tobias.
1:01.2	It's about the most definitive I've ever heard you say your name, Scott.
1:04.1	Usually there's a question mark in there.
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