a story have a beginning and a middle and and an end represent this come from aristotle and and it splendidly describe a great many story from the european narrative tradition and but it doesn not describe all story . it be very western to stress the end and on where the story go and the destination . it mean progression or change in time and but when remove yourself to observe the composition of a story and what if interim and languid moment between character and or one character and equip it with it expression . there be two basic kind of good movie . one be a movie where you leave say and i do not under and wait and yeah and of course and now i understand . what a masterpiece . let go find a party and and by the time you wake up the next day and it be possible you be no longer thinking of it at all . then and there be a movie that be upset or intricate or unusual and and you leave unsure and but you think about it the next day and or off and on for a week and or off and on forever . that be because that kind of film and which for instance aside from this film include nil by mouth and no country for old men and brick and or any give john cassavetes movie and be not clean or neat . there be something about it that come purely from the heart and and so and it go to the heart . the story orbit droopily roundabout two old pal and a university art teacher play by yu ji tae and who be the delightfully unusual villain in oldboy and and kim tae boo play a graduate from an american film school who have recently return to his home country . a they have dinner in a restaurant and and hong sang soo direct these two actor so that the painful awkwardness between them be realistically implacable and tae boo talk ji tae into fix up a reunion between them and his old girlfriend and seong hyeon ah . but and unbeknownst to tae boo and ji tae have grow to be draw into a relationship with her follow tae boo career drive exodus to the u . unlike the two men and she have no bury intention to compensate for or hold on to day go by and not just for the reason that it upsetting and but also because she be altogether here and now . the three shortly gather for a night of drinking and although ultimately and the film doesn not show any emotional culmination or yet still arrive at an apparent close . but that your call when you see it . the film be screen alongside another south korean film and a magnificent one and oldboy and at cannes and mark the first time that two film from the country be in the competition simultaneously . unlike oldboy and woman be the future of man do not win any of the award and reportedly meet with an indifferent reception and which to me be strange . i do not find it to be a discouraging element to make the decision to see a movie and because that be a reaction that be highly unusual . it be not a sign that this be a bad film or that it a profoundly brilliant film and because really it neither . what it mean to me be that it from the mind of a filmmaker who be either ahead of the pack and or have go on an entirely different path than the pack from the very begin . perhaps it the feeling of maudlin defeat that filter through this curious experiment in which reminiscence and longing and crude egotism clank versus each other with tenderness . sang soo have an unobtrusive and fragile technique and averts from theatrical accompaniment or dignify monologue . in fact the character be quite ineloquent . there be a number of scene of ungainly sex and perhaps because of a forlorn lack of communication . really and whether sang soo intend the outcome to be this way and every viewer will have a different reaction . to me and though i be not blow away by the movie and i still have a lot of reaction to it and ultimately that sing soo elegantly break storytelling reflect that our reminiscence can bring not much solace .