- Sensibility: Character behaviors, particularly the reservation of Jong-Su, and some of the realities of the situation give pause, but not to an extent that dramatically reduces the quality of the film.
- Cinematography: Great visuals, particularly in the first half. Camera work is excellent. Production design and costuming are solid, helping define the characters and separate the classes of people involved.
- Energy: The film is a slow burner (pun intended). The reward for your patience is good, even if it brings a lot of questions about the ending.
- Narrative: Great characters, great dialogue, and a great climax. The film has both a brilliant realism and fantastical mystery to the characters which blend in a rare and beautiful admixture. Everyone down to the cat feels like a critical part of the story. The only thing that feels a bit out of place, and maybe an unnecessary distraction is a sequence of silent phone calls.
- T-Points: The film received four bonus points: one for a great shot in the beginning of a soon-to-be couple in a restaurant drinking, one for sunlight spotted on the wall, one for a conversation about greenhouses and bass in the heart, and one for a conversation leaving a coffee shop about a girl and jealousy.
Beautiful, slow, thought-provoking film. It's nice to see films with some long, uninterrupted shotmaking.
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