I often think that Park Chan-wook's greatest strength lies in his ability to express nuanced ideas without imposition, guided by his idiosyncratic yet human characters moving through a patchwork of equally curious experiences.

The point is not to question whether someone truly had no other choice; it's to meditate on why they say and believe so.

The problem with this one is that it flows like a game of Consequences played by just one person, where each scene feels as if it's built solely from the one preceding it.
This turns the destination into something completely irrelevant to the opening, and not in a fun way, because the only person having fun is the one playing it.

It's hard to boo when a film is this cool, but sometimes, a film that keeps dodging greatness by an inch is a lot more annoying than a film that just sucks.

This is that film.

Park Chan-wook films are like visual poetry.

Taking his film apart is (usually) pointless, as it's the summation of all their parts that turns his films into magic. It's like how Wong Kar-wai's nostalgic style can never be copied - it's not about just using his step printing technique, but about where, how, and why he's using it in combination with everything else that's on screen.

In that sense, Decision to Leave is also about experiencing an emotion, and less about watching, hearing, or reading a story.