![]() ![]() The film is immaculately made, and it’s Park’s attention to domestic sensuousness that transmits a robust sapphic texture in a film that, on its face, focuses on an ostensibly heterosexual attraction who else but lesbians can make packing up takeout sushi read as pure sex? By no means as capital-Q queer as The Handmaiden, Park’s thrillingly carnal 2016 thriller, Decision to Leave, with its rich subtext, heavy glances, and nonstop yearning, finds an ironically neater home (for better or worse) in the contemporary sapphic film canon. Rotten Tomatoes, home of the Tomatometer, is the most trusted measurement of quality for Movies & TV. ![]() Meticulous in his method yet hedonistic in his desires, Hae-joon meets his match in the elegantly seductive Seo-rae (Tang Wei), who also happens to be the prime suspect of a recent murder. A classic queer conundrum: Are you into her or do you want to be her? We’ve all been there, including - I would argue - Hae-joon (Park Hae-il), the dashing and scrupulous detective at the heart of director Park Chan-wook’s spellbinding noir Decision to Leave.
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