Decision to Leave
Pop Culture Happy Hour
NPR
4.5 • 11.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | In the moody mystery, decision to leave, a man is found dead and the prime suspect is |
| 0:08.5 | his enigmatic widow. |
| 0:10.5 | Boundaries are blurred and morals are tested when the detective assigned to the case becomes |
| 0:14.1 | romantically attached to the suspect. |
| 0:16.7 | This is the latest movie from a known South Korean director, Park Chan-Wook, who took on |
| 0:20.9 | the prize for best director at this year's Cannes Film Festival. |
| 0:24.4 | It's twisty and provocative and features simmering performances and striking imagery. |
| 0:28.8 | I'm Gwen Weldon. |
| 0:29.8 | And I'm Aisha Harris, and today we're talking about decision to leave on pop culture |
| 0:34.0 | half-gour from NPR. |
| 0:35.8 | It's just glad and I today, so let's get into it. |
| 0:43.8 | Decision to leave stars Park Ha-il as Ha-jun, a meticulous detective investigating the |
| 0:48.2 | case of a man who plunged to his death from a rocky cliff. |
| 0:51.8 | Tonguey plays the dead man's wife, So-Rae, and she's this mysterious Chinese immigrant |
| 0:56.4 | and caretaker who doesn't seem all too broken up about becoming a widow. |
| 1:00.6 | Ha-jun's suspect she may have murdered her husband and begins to observe her during |
| 1:04.0 | regular stay-gats of her home and job. |
| 1:06.6 | Naturally, when it comes to these genre thrillers, he becomes enamored with her. |
| 1:12.6 | This of course complicates things, especially when it comes to Ha-jun's relationship with |
| 1:16.4 | his wife, who's played by Lee Jung-hyeong. |
| 1:18.8 | The movie also stars Guk-hyeong-pil as a young and comically-brosh deputy, Soo-wan. |
| 1:23.5 | Decision to leave is directed by Park-chang-wook, who previously made Old Boy. |
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