{"id":12612,"date":"2018-05-05T20:00:58","date_gmt":"2018-05-06T01:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=12612"},"modified":"2018-05-05T16:32:50","modified_gmt":"2018-05-05T21:32:50","slug":"on-the-beach-at-night-alone-2017-hong-sang-soo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/12612","title":{"rendered":"On the Beach at Night Alone (2017, Hong Sang-soo)"},"content":{"rendered":"

“What I want is to live in a way that suits me.”<\/p>\n

A philosophical movie starring Kim Min-hee, who has become my favorite actress at playing drunk. Part one is a half hour long and set in Germany, actress Younghee hanging out with a friend (Young-hwa Seo, Hill of Freedom<\/a><\/em>‘s letter-reader) – turns out the actress is fleeing Seoul after an affair gone bad. They go music shopping, then eat pasta at Mark Peranson’s house (with a La Chinoise<\/a><\/em> poster in the kitchen). In the dreamlike final scene, Younghee is left on the beach at night alone for just a minute then is seen being carried away unconscious, presumably by the stalker we’d previously seen walking at them It Follows<\/a><\/em>-style.<\/p>\n

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Part two opens with the lights coming up at a movie theater and no mention of the beach incident. She has returned to her hometown in Korea and meets up with some old friends, first at a coffee shop some of them run, then for a dinner party. First there’s Hae-hyo Kwon (the prickly guy in part one of In Another Country<\/a><\/em>) then meek Jae-yeong Jeong (main dude in Right Now, Wrong Then<\/a><\/em>). She’s staying at a fancy hotel with friend Seon-mi Song (The Day He Arrives<\/a><\/em>), who decides to be Younghee’s assistant. Younghee is taking a break from her career and daily routines, evaluating her life, but doesn’t seem to be doing too badly – rumors are the director she recently broke up with is worse off. Back at the beach alone, not quite at night but perhaps the early evening, she dreams a meeting with the director (I think he’s the professor from Oki’s Movie<\/a><\/em>) after his crew stumbles across her, and he wants to read her a book passage about love with the crew sitting awkwardly around.<\/p>\n

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The stalker from part one reappears as a window washer:<\/em>
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It’s a good Hong movie, probably not my favorite, but viewers who follow his personal news were mostly stunned that he made this Kim Min-hee movie about the aftermath of a scandalous affair with a film director right after getting caught having a scandalous affair with Kim Min-hee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“What I want is to live in a way that suits me.” A philosophical movie starring Kim Min-hee, who has become my favorite actress at playing drunk. Part one is a half hour long and set in Germany, actress Younghee hanging out with a friend (Young-hwa Seo, Hill of Freedom‘s letter-reader) – turns out the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,91,122,1814,2427,229],"class_list":["post-12612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-filmmaking","tag-germany","tag-hong-sang-soo","tag-kim-min-hee","tag-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12612"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12631,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12612\/revisions\/12631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}