"Is vengeance justified? Is it effective?", he said. Park's focus on revenge and forgiveness touched a nerve in post-9/11 America, Brian Hu, a film professor at San Diego State University, told AFP. "Parasite didn't come out of nowhere, and Oldboy in many ways set things in motion for what came later," Jason Bechervaise, a professor at Korea Soongsil Cyber University, told AFP. Park's Cannes entry comes nearly two decades after his "Oldboy" that won the festival's second-highest prize in 2004 and helped catapult South Korean cinema onto the global stage - years before "Parasite" which won both the Palme d'Or and best foreign film at the Oscars. He added, laughing: "But I knew before coming to Cannes that I'd get asked about it here." 'Vengeance justified?' "And I thought, is there a law that says only Visconti gets to use this piece? No there isn't, so I went ahead." "I tried to find other classical pieces that could work, but this piece by Mahler was just ideal," Park said.
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The film's mesmerising soundtrack includes the Adagio in Mahler's 5th Symphony which was immortalised as a soundtrack in the 1971 movie "Death In Venice" by Luchino Visconti. 'Not a romantic': Park Chan-wook on the Cannes red carpet LOIC VENANCE AFP "I'm not a romantic, but I'm very interested in the expression of emotions," said Park. The detective story increasingly meshes with the mutual attraction engulfing the main characters, and the resulting erotic tension that is heightened by the constant proximity of death. "That's what I wanted to represent in a movie," he said. Park said the film drew inspiration from the methodical police work contained in the Swedish "Martin Beck" crime thriller books. "Decision To Leave" tells the story of a detective who, investigating a man's fatal fall from a mountain, comes under the spell of the victim's wife whom he suspects of having caused her husband's death. We don't have a tranquil or zen character, we're temperamental and that's reflected in our films and series." 'Is there a law?'
"That goes for both the film-going public and film-makers. "We went through extreme situations and that has changed our character," he said.
In the running for the coveted Palme d'Or, meanwhile, is "Decision to Leave" by director Park Chan-wook, who told AFP his country's turbulent postwar history had shaped the collective personality of South Koreans, and made for interesting film production. The Hollywood Reporter called "Hunt", which tells the story of two South Korean secret agents who compete with each other to unmask a North Korean mole, a "twisty espionage thriller", while The Wrap noted an abundance of "double agents, buried secrets and lots of broken arms". "And that's just the beginning," he told AFP. "It feels like a golden age for South Korean productions," said Lee Jung-jae, the superstar actor in Netflix's "Squid Game", whose debut as a director, "Hunt", has screened out of competition at Cannes.
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