Park Chan-wook’s Decision to Leave is certainly a beautiful, well crafted work, adored by critics, but somewhat hard to follow. A detective investigates a murder, the prime suspect of which is the victim’s beautiful Chinese wife, Song Seo-rae: a foreigner in Korea. She is quite “un-shocked” by the death of her husband, further cementing her prime suspect status.

Detective Jang Hae-joon, however, is seduced by her beauty and isn’t really able to concentrate on solving the crime. Jang also happens to be married, and his wife looks remarkably like Song. Further confusion. Anyway… I still love the movie, and in particular, the way “the affair” ends.

Thanks to my loyal guests for sharing a memorable evening with me, once again.