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Decision to Leave
Decision to Leave (Korean: 헤어질 결심; RR: Heeojil gyeolsim; lit. 'Resolution to Break Up') is a 2022 South Korean neo-noir romantic mystery film directed, co-written and produced by Park Chan-wook. The film follows married detective Jang Hae-jun (Park Hae-il), whose investigation of a man's death leads him to the man's widow, Chinese immigrant Song Seo-rae (Tang Wei). Hae-jun's investigation of Seo-rae as a suspect gradually leads him to develop feelings towards her.
In April 2022, Decision to Leave was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, where Park Chan-wook won Best Director. The film was released theatrically on 29 June 2022 in South Korea. Mubi acquired the distribution rights for several territories, including North America, where it was released theatrically on 14 October 2022. Its streaming premiere began in Mubi on 9 December 2022, where it would later become the company's most streamed film.
Decision to Leave received critical acclaim, being named one of the top five international films of 2022 by the National Board of Review. It was selected as the South Korean entry for Best International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards, making the December shortlist. Among the accolades and nominations it received are two BAFTA Award nominations at the 76th British Academy Film Awards, for Best Film Not in the English Language and Best Direction, seven wins from 13 nominations at the 43rd Blue Dragon Film Awards and three wins from seven nominations at the 59th Baeksang Arts Awards.
Insomniac detective Jang Hae-jun works in Busan and only sees his wife, Jung-an, a nuclear power plant manager residing in Ipo, once a week. Hae-jun and his partner, Soo-wan, investigate a case involving a retired immigration officer, Ki Do-soo, found dead at the foot of a mountain he often climbed. They interview his much younger wife Song Seo-rae, an emigrant from China who works as a caretaker for seniors. They suspect her because of her lack of displays of grief, a scratch on her hand, bruises on her legs and torso, broken ribs, and a tattoo of Ki's initials resembling the monogram he used to mark his belongings.
Hae-jun conducts further interviews with Seo-rae and conducts nightly stakeouts outside of her apartment building, becoming infatuated with her in the process. Seo-rae observes him outside her building, and witnesses him on one of his other investigations. Seo-rae's Monday client says Seo-rae was with her on the day Ki died, and camera footage shows Seo-rae outside her Monday client's home shortly before Ki's time of death. Questioned about her background, Seo-rae admits that in China she killed her terminally ill mother with fentanyl pills at her request. Before dying, she told Seo-rae to go to Korea to climb the mountain her Korean grandfather, an independence fighter in Manchuria, had left her. Seo-rae gives Hae-jun letters written by Ki admitting to corrupt business dealings, including a letter sent to a subordinate that Hae-jun interprets as a suicide note. Hae-jun rules the death a suicide, despite Soo-wan's doubts, and informs Seo-rae that she is no longer a suspect.
Seo-rae and Hae-jun go on a date at a Buddhist temple, visit each other's homes, and become close. At his apartment, Seo-rae burns Hae-jun's evidence photos from her husband's case, reasoning that Hae-jun's insomnia is caused by his disturbing cases haunting him. When Hae-jun fills in for a visit to Seo-rae's Monday client, Hae-jun learns that Seo-rae and the client have the same model of cell phone, and that the client has dementia and does not know what day of the week it is. On the client's phone, he sees that the housebound woman apparently walked the distance equivalent to 138 flights of stairs on the day of Ki's death. Hae-jun realizes Seo-rae switched her phone for her client's and then climbed the mountain to push Ki off. Confronting Seo-rae in her apartment, he concludes that she also forged the suicide note and, to her consternation, accuses her of getting close to him to destroy his evidence. Hae-jun says Seo-rae has destroyed his pride in his job and that, since meeting her, he has become "shattered"; nevertheless, he has covered up the evidence and instructs her to throw the incriminating phone into the sea before leaving.
Thirteen months later, Hae-jun has moved to Ipo to live with Jung-an after developing depression and more severe insomnia. At a fish market with Jung-an, he encounters Seo-rae with her new husband Im Ho-Shin, a business investor. The next day, Ho-Shin is found dead in his mansion's swimming pool. Hae-jun takes on the case and is convinced Seo-rae is the culprit. She admits only to draining the pool so that Hae-jun would not be disturbed by the blood. Sa Cheol-seong, a Chinese immigrant, soon confesses to killing Ho-Shin for defrauding his late mother of millions of dollars. Sa denies that Seo-rae played any role and reveals he had installed a tracker on Seo-rae's phone so he could find where Ho-Shin lived.
Hae-jun confronts Seo-rae at the mountain her grandfather left her. She rushes at Hae-jun after he scatters her grandfather and mother's ashes at the edge of the mountain, only to hug him as she did at her apartment. She reveals that she kept the phone with the incriminating evidence from Ki's case, and proposes that he use it to "reinvestigate" her. They kiss passionately. Hae-jun returns home to find that Jung-an, who suspects him of having worked with Seo-rae to murder Ho-shin, is leaving him.
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Decision to Leave
Decision to Leave (Korean: 헤어질 결심; RR: Heeojil gyeolsim; lit. 'Resolution to Break Up') is a 2022 South Korean neo-noir romantic mystery film directed, co-written and produced by Park Chan-wook. The film follows married detective Jang Hae-jun (Park Hae-il), whose investigation of a man's death leads him to the man's widow, Chinese immigrant Song Seo-rae (Tang Wei). Hae-jun's investigation of Seo-rae as a suspect gradually leads him to develop feelings towards her.
In April 2022, Decision to Leave was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, where Park Chan-wook won Best Director. The film was released theatrically on 29 June 2022 in South Korea. Mubi acquired the distribution rights for several territories, including North America, where it was released theatrically on 14 October 2022. Its streaming premiere began in Mubi on 9 December 2022, where it would later become the company's most streamed film.
Decision to Leave received critical acclaim, being named one of the top five international films of 2022 by the National Board of Review. It was selected as the South Korean entry for Best International Feature Film at the 95th Academy Awards, making the December shortlist. Among the accolades and nominations it received are two BAFTA Award nominations at the 76th British Academy Film Awards, for Best Film Not in the English Language and Best Direction, seven wins from 13 nominations at the 43rd Blue Dragon Film Awards and three wins from seven nominations at the 59th Baeksang Arts Awards.
Insomniac detective Jang Hae-jun works in Busan and only sees his wife, Jung-an, a nuclear power plant manager residing in Ipo, once a week. Hae-jun and his partner, Soo-wan, investigate a case involving a retired immigration officer, Ki Do-soo, found dead at the foot of a mountain he often climbed. They interview his much younger wife Song Seo-rae, an emigrant from China who works as a caretaker for seniors. They suspect her because of her lack of displays of grief, a scratch on her hand, bruises on her legs and torso, broken ribs, and a tattoo of Ki's initials resembling the monogram he used to mark his belongings.
Hae-jun conducts further interviews with Seo-rae and conducts nightly stakeouts outside of her apartment building, becoming infatuated with her in the process. Seo-rae observes him outside her building, and witnesses him on one of his other investigations. Seo-rae's Monday client says Seo-rae was with her on the day Ki died, and camera footage shows Seo-rae outside her Monday client's home shortly before Ki's time of death. Questioned about her background, Seo-rae admits that in China she killed her terminally ill mother with fentanyl pills at her request. Before dying, she told Seo-rae to go to Korea to climb the mountain her Korean grandfather, an independence fighter in Manchuria, had left her. Seo-rae gives Hae-jun letters written by Ki admitting to corrupt business dealings, including a letter sent to a subordinate that Hae-jun interprets as a suicide note. Hae-jun rules the death a suicide, despite Soo-wan's doubts, and informs Seo-rae that she is no longer a suspect.
Seo-rae and Hae-jun go on a date at a Buddhist temple, visit each other's homes, and become close. At his apartment, Seo-rae burns Hae-jun's evidence photos from her husband's case, reasoning that Hae-jun's insomnia is caused by his disturbing cases haunting him. When Hae-jun fills in for a visit to Seo-rae's Monday client, Hae-jun learns that Seo-rae and the client have the same model of cell phone, and that the client has dementia and does not know what day of the week it is. On the client's phone, he sees that the housebound woman apparently walked the distance equivalent to 138 flights of stairs on the day of Ki's death. Hae-jun realizes Seo-rae switched her phone for her client's and then climbed the mountain to push Ki off. Confronting Seo-rae in her apartment, he concludes that she also forged the suicide note and, to her consternation, accuses her of getting close to him to destroy his evidence. Hae-jun says Seo-rae has destroyed his pride in his job and that, since meeting her, he has become "shattered"; nevertheless, he has covered up the evidence and instructs her to throw the incriminating phone into the sea before leaving.
Thirteen months later, Hae-jun has moved to Ipo to live with Jung-an after developing depression and more severe insomnia. At a fish market with Jung-an, he encounters Seo-rae with her new husband Im Ho-Shin, a business investor. The next day, Ho-Shin is found dead in his mansion's swimming pool. Hae-jun takes on the case and is convinced Seo-rae is the culprit. She admits only to draining the pool so that Hae-jun would not be disturbed by the blood. Sa Cheol-seong, a Chinese immigrant, soon confesses to killing Ho-Shin for defrauding his late mother of millions of dollars. Sa denies that Seo-rae played any role and reveals he had installed a tracker on Seo-rae's phone so he could find where Ho-Shin lived.
Hae-jun confronts Seo-rae at the mountain her grandfather left her. She rushes at Hae-jun after he scatters her grandfather and mother's ashes at the edge of the mountain, only to hug him as she did at her apartment. She reveals that she kept the phone with the incriminating evidence from Ki's case, and proposes that he use it to "reinvestigate" her. They kiss passionately. Hae-jun returns home to find that Jung-an, who suspects him of having worked with Seo-rae to murder Ho-shin, is leaving him.