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  Review by Hungkat ★★★★½ 37

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  "The moment you said you loved me, your love is over. The moment your love ends, my love begins."

  It begins with the mountain and ends with the sea. The two contrasting images always accompany the film. Like Seo Rae's dress, some people think it's green; others see blue. The wallpaper in her home shows patterns of mountain peaks, but upon closer look, they look like thousands of waves crashing into each other. The mountain and the sea seem so close, yet are always out of each other’s reach. If the wise love the water and the benevolence the mountains, the lovelorn will always choose to stay behind in the earth. No one ever wanted to leave but always having to pass by.

  Pcw’s in the mood for love

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  Review by k(arst)en ★★★★★

  feeling shattered

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  Review by davidehrlich ★★★★½

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  Here’s a sentence I never expected to write: The most romantic movie of the year (so far) is a police procedural. Then again, I wasn’t aware that “Oldboy” director Park Chan-wook — whose operatic revenge melodramas have given way to a series of ravishingly baroque Hitchcockian love stories about the various “perversities” that might bind two wayward souls together — was making a detective thriller. In that case, the heart-stirring potential of the Korean auteur’s new detective saga would have been as obvious as the identity of its killer.

  It’s a good thing, then, that “Decision to Leave” isn’t a whodunnit — as you’ll be able to discern from the pathetic effort its protagonist makes to solve his latest case.…

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  Review by 24framesofnick ★★★★ 8

  Horny ass motherfuckers

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  Review by David Sims ★★★★½ 6

  more like decision to love

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  Review by mathew ★★★★½

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  nooo don't kill yourself you're so sexy aha

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  Review by crimsen 泓 ★★★★½ 10

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  i buried my affection in deep ocean, come find me

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  Review by Josh Lewis ★★★★ 6

  Way funnier than I was expecting, in part because it takes its noir femme-fatale gf/Hitchcockian obsessed-man bf dynamic completely emotionally seriously but in order to sustain it on a narrative level has to keep having its characters make increasingly ridiculous decisions. The best part is easily the editing which latches itself subjectively into the intense fixations and headspace of the tormented insomniac at its center and as a result basically moves at the confused, unhinged rapid pace of his mind including jolting jump cuts, wipe transitions, screen overlays, digital zooms, and crossfades. 

  It's borderline hallucinatory slapstick at times but in a deliberately energetic, exciting way that gets you swept up in the yearning these two have to preserve their perverse…

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  Review by nolan ★★★★½ 4

  stupid sexy camerawork

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  Review by Lucy ★★★★½ 2

  another off-kilter love story from one of the only true visionary filmmakers working today… calmer than the handmaiden, but stings all the same. and tang wei’s performance might be the most i’ve fallen for a femme fatale in… maybe ever

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  Review by kj ★★★★

  i would also buy you expensive sushi and cook homemade fried rice for you as forms of foreplay

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  Review by Jay ★★★½ 1

  “we love a bad girl dont we”
  “yeah but not a murder suspect, hae-jun“