How to relate to tourist attractions?
In "Right Now, Wrong Then", Hong Sang-soo has had enough of the messy multilateral relationships in the structure and returned to the various forms of an intimate relationship. This attempt makes the male protagonist and himself have an unprecedented consistency. Facing Jin Minxi, not only a lot of awkward and self-consistent scenes in narcissism, but also a concise scene is repeated again, causing all the influences to create romance factors are obvious.
Among them, starting from narcissism, he gave a lot of casual and panacea comments on the creation of the works. The self-construction was dissolved in humor, just like the joy and small interest after a chance encounter.
Going out of town to pass the time, meeting a local woman at a tourist attraction, seeing each other, drinking coffee, going to the studio to talk about works, going to dinner, going to a friend's party, is almost the most vulgar structure and route, but Hong Shangxiu joined the narcissism to the awkward compliment. They always compliment each other, but their identities are intertwined. As for the opposite sex, there is a bit of frivolous admiration in the compliment, so this compliment is credible.
There's always plenty of compliments, not only a sense of confidence and masculinity pride for the director, but a hilarious attempt to see those parts of life itself that are astonishing in this hilariously bad aftermath. Just like the director's comment on Kim Min-hee's paintings in the previous paragraph, he can comment on almost any work, especially his own.
Looking for an unusual path, but the author is very sure of the destination, but this is the result, in a line that rejects the mainstream logic, sincerely walks to a frivolous ruin, and in this frivolous found in the ruins moved.
Hong Sang-soo is also cautiously reminding the audience that romance and tenderness are not just casually catering to each other's attentiveness. And wanton expressing good feelings for the other party often disappoints both of them, which is a temptation that needs to be avoided. On the contrary, only if the two sides seize the time and be sincere when contacting each other, and do not let their expectations deviate, then there will be no real embarrassment and disillusionment. Even if the tacit understanding is very simple, it can't even support the two of them to go out and open a room on a cold night, but it is enough to make people feel aftertaste, it is a kind of full communication and feeling.
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