Director Park Chan-wook emphasized that the new film ‘The Decision to Break Up’ is a ‘adult story’.
Director Park Chan-wook, who attended the press conference for the movie ‘Decision to break up’ held in Cannes at 11:30 am (local time) on the 24th, asked the reason why there are no sex scenes and action scenes that have always appeared in previous works, and said, “If another director made this You wouldn’t have asked the question… Why are you asking why there isn’t a scene that isn’t there?” he laughed.
He continued, “I didn’t include sex scenes and violent scenes because I didn’t think they were necessary. When I first planned this movie, I said, ‘This time, I really want to deal with adult stories for adults.’ Then people around me said, ‘A really great sex scene. I think this is coming.” I had the thought that I had to go once morest this expectation.”
Director Park Chan-wook emerged as a world-class master when he won the Grand Prize of the Jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 2004 for ‘Oldboy’. Afterwards, high-level action scenes and love affair scenes appeared in works such as ‘Mr. Kind Venus’, ‘Bat’, and ‘The Handmaiden’, which drew attention.
However, in this movie, which claims to be a ‘real melodrama’, there are no exposed sex scenes or violent scenes of violence. To this, some responded ‘Park Chan-wook’s mild taste’, and some responded “Park Chan-wook’s evolution”.
“Yesterday, while meeting and talking to distributors in various countries, a similar story came up. When each promoted this film in their own country, it was a work that shows the new evolution of Park Chan-wook.” Then (the audience) imagined the evolved violence and sex. Why don’t you do it? That’s why I told you to call it a work by a director you don’t know.”
At this meeting, the question ‘what do you think love is?’ was also asked. Park Chan-wook Gam Go-eun said, “I’m not the type of director who uses personal life or questions of life as the subject of a movie,” but “Among the various relationships that can be formed between the characters of love, that person, the human race, is the most important. I think it’s the type of relationship that I can show well.”
‘The Decision to Break Up’ is a melodrama drama depicting the story of a detective Hae-jun (Park Hae-il), who is investigating a murder case in a mountain, meeting the wife of the deceased, Seo-rae (Tang Wei), and feeling suspicious and interested at the same time. . The film, which was invited to the competition section of the 75th Cannes International Film Festival and received favorable reviews, will be released in Korea on June 29.
(SBS Entertainment News reporter Kim Ji-hye)
