Past Lives

this movie was so tender, yet watching it felt like hugging a sharpened knife. i think i never came across a movie like this one. the love pictured there was brilliantly done, it felt so real. the music, the acting, the dialogues and the cinematography seemed to blend all together so effortlessly, it was so easy to watch and to see yourself behind every detail. i don’t have words to express it better but wow. the whole in-yun thing was wonderful. i literally quite fell in love with it. the title of the movie made so much sense since then and put such a poetic meaning behind it. i thought it really brought to light what the movie was silently conveying to us since the beginning. i also have to say that the fact that this movie made us like the husband really shows how much of a good movie it really is. he loves his wife so much and he is giving her the space and comfort she needs to grief someone she once loved, i could kill myself over that (no need to mention how PRECIOUS the you speak in korean in your sleep scene)  god i cannot not speak about this one scene in the bar. it absolutely destroyed me. i had to actually pause the movie, write it all down and then i replayed this exact scene maybe 5 times after that. *« - But the truth i learned here is, you had to leave because you’re you. And the reason i liked you is because you’re you. And who you are is someone who leaves. […]  - I think there was something in our past lives. Otherwise, why would we be here together right now ? But in this life, we don’t have the In-Yun to be that kind of person to each other. Because now, finally, we're in the same city for the first time in twenty years. - We're sitting here with your husband. In this life, you and Arthur are that kind of In-Yun to each other. You two have the eight thousand layers of In-Yun. To Arthur, you're someone who stays. »* the words are so simple, yet they were perfectly chosen. they expressed everything that longed to be said. it’s incredible to witness how much of a relief they were for both of them, hearing them and saying them. even if there is still this lingering feeling that there’s something left, but i think that part can’t be expressed through words. although, to me it felt like it kinda made its way before hae-sung left in the cab, when they silently stood up in front of each other. and this very ending ? them saying goodbye the same way they did as kids ? making us realize that the hope we carried throughout the movie, just like hae-sung specifically, was just a mere mirage coming with the realization of the foreshadowing of them as kids already parting their ways while a part of them want to take the same path ? vile. incredibly well done but still vile. yet i wouldn’t change a thing, it was so beautiful. the way that they made this parallel clear but yet it’s the same but so different, they’re not babies anymore. if the sentence « so close and yet so far » was a movie.  what was so special about this movie is that the in-yun philosophy leaves room for hope, even if the movie is mostly bittersweet. because how beautiful it is to think that this one person you love that can’t be with is the one you wake up to every morning in another life. to think that maybe it didn’t work out in this life but because of this life you are more likely to make it real in another. it was one of the 8000 layers of in-yun. it allows both of them to go on in this life in which they did and will find so much love and happiness because they trust that they’ll find or have already found each other in another.  will watch it again 100%, i already want to force everyone i know to watch it