If you have ever watched a Park Chan-wook film, you will have seen a detail on screen and wondered: why is he showing this? And just at the right moment: That's why!
We are used to thinking that good cinematography is a display of the most various cinematic techniques. And filming details is very cool. However, it rarely helps the story in any meaningful way.

Today’s question is: when is the right time to show a detail?
When you want to study the use of details in cinema, you can look at Hitchcock, you can look at Kubrick, but I think the greatest master of this technique is a director who's still making films: Park Chan-wook.
And there is one trait in Park Chan-wook's use of details that always gets me: tragedy.

Films shown
- Stoker
- OldBoy (2003)
- Jackie Brown
- Kill Bill Vol. 1
- Seven
- Requiem for a Dream
- A Clockwork orange
- Decision to leave
- Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
- Lady Vengeance
- The Handmaiden
- I'm a cyborg but that's okay
- Joint Security Area

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