{"id":830,"date":"2023-05-10T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/?p=830"},"modified":"2023-05-12T16:58:54","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T21:58:54","slug":"decision-to-leave-wednesday-may-10th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/10\/decision-to-leave-wednesday-may-10th\/","title":{"rendered":"Decision to Leave. To leave a us all a little confused?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/decision.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-834\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Park Chan-wook&#8217;s <em>Decision to Leave<\/em> 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&#8217;s beautiful Chinese wife, Song Seo-rae: a foreigner in Korea. She is quite &#8220;un-shocked&#8221; by the death of her husband, further cementing her prime suspect status.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Detective Jang Hae-joon, however, is seduced by her beauty and isn&#8217;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&#8230; I still love the movie, and in particular, the way &#8220;the affair&#8221; ends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks to my loyal guests for sharing a memorable evening with me, once again.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt12477480\/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"44\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/imdb.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Park Chan-wook&#8217;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&#8217;s beautiful Chinese wife, Song Seo-rae: a foreigner in Korea. She is quite &#8220;un-shocked&#8221; by the death of her husband, further cementing her &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/10\/decision-to-leave-wednesday-may-10th\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Decision to Leave. To leave a us all a little confused?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":831,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movies","category-trailers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=830"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":836,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions\/836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}