Right Now, Wrong Then
A deliciously intricate comedy of manners that exposes the fissures in male-female relationships and in cinema itself.
Quite by mistake, art-film director Chunsu arrives in Suwon a day early. With time to kill before his lecture the next day, Chunsu stops by a restored, old palace and meets a fledgling artist, Yoon Heejung. She's never seen any of his films, but knows he's famous. They talk. And together, they go to Heejung's workshop to look at her paintings, have Sushi and Soju.
Their romantically-charged chance meeting continues all the way to a brilliant and achingly funny end point, at which time... we begin again. But now some things appear different...
Winner of the Golden Leopard and Best Actor (Jung Jae-young) at the Locarno International Film Festival.
"This doubled up story is thoughtful, introspective, and reflective on how subtle changes can affect outcomes large and small." - Bradley Gibson, Film Threat
Running Time
121 mins
Year
2015
Kanopy ID
3214052
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WHAT IS the audience supposed to feel when they watch a Hong Sang movie? Are they supposed to be happy? Are they supposed to be sad? Is it supposed to be poetry? Honestly I think it's one thing BOMFOG. If you ask me. I was drawn into this movie because of the title. Right NOw, Wrong Then. ...Read more
WHAT IS the audience supposed to feel when they watch a Hong Sang movie? Are they supposed to be happy? Are they supposed to be sad? Is it supposed to be poetry? Honestly I think it's one thing BOMFOG. If you ask me. I was drawn into this movie because of the title. Right NOw, Wrong Then. This title makes me think of regret and the state of the world right now. Divorce rate : The divorce rate among highly educated couples is 11%, while the divorce rate for lower income couples is 17%.
Read lessi am disappointed I did not notice is with subtitles, cannot read the letters
At first, when the story began to unfold again in the 2nd half, I thought it was too drawn-out. But they re-told the story with new conversations where honest words and feelings won out. It was uplifting, refreshing, and thought-provoking in a way that 'Groundhog Day' was not (although ...Read more
At first, when the story began to unfold again in the 2nd half, I thought it was too drawn-out. But they re-told the story with new conversations where honest words and feelings won out. It was uplifting, refreshing, and thought-provoking in a way that 'Groundhog Day' was not (although Groundhog Day was good in its own way).
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When you think about it, it's a miracle that two particular people should meet at all, let alone make a meaningful connection. A million little incidental details have to align, both in their environments and within themselves, in order to ensure that they are in the same place at the same ...Read more
When you think about it, it's a miracle that two particular people should meet at all, let alone make a meaningful connection. A million little incidental details have to align, both in their environments and within themselves, in order to ensure that they are in the same place at the same time and open to the vulnerability required to form a bond. Through a delightful experimentation in form, Hong Sang-Soo's RIGHT NOW, WRONG THEN illustrates this peculiar delicacy inherent to human relationships. Not since Gaspar Noe's Irreversible have I seen a film to so compellingly toy with audience expectation through narrative form. But rest assured, Sang-Soo's film is nothing like Noe's: RIGHT NOW is playful and mischievous, conjuring a parallel universe rather than a haunted one, wherein things are ever so slightly, but oh so meaningfully, different.
Just as romantic encounters are burdened by expectation, so to is the audience in a theater. After our first run through with Ham and Heejeong, we think we know all there is to know, privileged as it were by dramatic irony. However, during the second run it becomes clear that we aren't the omniscient audience we thought we were. There are layers to our two main characters yet to be unearthed, sides to them that appear different when seen from another angle (literally and figuratively). Sang-Soo reveals the fault in our preconceived notions and expectations in a film that is equal parts totally out of the ordinary and hilariously, delightfully familiar-- particularly for anyone who has tried and failed (and tried again) to take a chance on a stranger.
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