Walk Up (Hong Sang-soo, 2022)    

Hong Sang-soo

- Walk Up

2022

-Hong Sang-soo’s filmography in a nutshell[from Walk Up(2022)]

WALK UP (Hong Sang-soo, 2022)

아, 고독해 영화 대사를 인용하자면 저는 감독님 영화가 왜 좋냐면요~ 사람이 과정이라는 게 있잖아요. 뭐 예를 들어 사람이 사람을 알아간다는 게 무턱대고 아는 게 아니라 이렇다 저렇다 대화를 나눠봐야 그 사람을 알 수가 있잖아요. 차근차근 대화를 나누고 그 사람의 공기와 나의 공기가 접촉하고 바로 제 방점은 차근차근에 있는거 에요. 그 서두르지 않고, 차근차근이가 당신에 영화에는 차곡차곡 쌓여있어서 좋아해요.

당신은 이 건물에서 영화를 찍기로 하고, 이 작고 아담하지만 뚜렷한 개성을 가진 몇몇 방이 있는 이 세계관을 갖고 당신이 만나 이 여정을 찍어나기로 다짐했던 거 같아요. 방이요, 몇몇 공간에서 몇몇의 만남 무수한 태도와 무수한 자세 무수한 마음과 무수한 모순들 당신이 올려다봤을 때 방의 집합체, 저 건물이 꽂꽂하게 서있다고 느껴졌습니다. 정의할 수 없는 찰나와 마음들이 모여있는 것만 같아 아름답다 느껴졌습니다. 어느 가을이었을까요 어느 봄이었을까요 살랑살랑한 기운이 주는 정조와 차곡차곡 한 여정이 만나니 더 두 손을 꼭 모으게 됐습니다.

피지도 않는 담배를 폐부 깊숙이 마시고 내뿜어 봅니다. 그래 난 혼자 살아야 해 하며 속마음을 절절히 고백하던 침대 위 장면이 생생히 떠오르고, 어느 해 봤던 4월에 청명하고 화창한 햇빛 아래에서 몸을 부대끼던 털이 복실했던 고양이가 떠오르는 건 왜일까요 그 고백이 펴지기 위한 마음의 몸부림은 아니었을까 기지개를 위한 고백과 움츠림,과정은 아니었을까 감히 추측해봅니다. 그래서 당신과 나 우리의 이 절절한 고백이 청명한 기운 아래에서 시원해지기를 소망해 보며, 복실했던 그 고양이를 꼭 한 번 기특하게 쓰다듬어 보고 싶습니다 탑,2022

Tab aka Walk up, 2022, Hong Sang-soo

New York Film Festival 2022:

Walk Up (Hong Sang-soo), 2022

(via Exclusive: Hong Sangsoo Faces the Music in U.S. Trailer for 28th Feature Walk Up)

i got rickrolled today but it didn't work because i have adblocker installed, so youtube just told me i violated the terms of service. yesterday i was trying to edit a picture as a joke for my girlfriend, and google made me check a box to prove i'm human because i wasn't "searching normally".

it isn't just that capitalism is killing fun and whimsy, it is that any element of entertainment or joy is being fed upon by this mosquito body, one that will suck you dry at any vulnerability.

do you want to meet new friends in your city? download this app, visit our website, sign up for our email list. pay for this class on making a terrarium, on candlemaking, on cooking. it will be 90 dollars a session. you can go to group fitness, but only under our specific gym membership. solve the puzzle, sign up for our puzzle-of-the-month-club. what is a club if not just a paid opportunity - you are all paying for the same thing, which makes you a community.

but you're like me, i know it - you're careful, you try the library meetings and the stuff at the local school and all of that. the problem is that you kind of want really specific opportunities that used to exist. you are so grateful for libraries and the publicly-funded things: they are, however, an exception - and everything they have, they've fought tooth-and-nail to protect. you read a headline about how in many other states, libraries have virtually nothing left.

do you want to meet up with your friends afterwards? gift your friends the discord app. you can choose to go to a cafe (buy a coffee, at least), a bar (money, alcohol) or you can all stay in and catch a movie (streaming) or you can all stay in bed (rent. don't get me started) and scream (noise complaint. ticket at least).

you want to read a new book, but the book has to have 124 buzzwords from tiktok readers that are, like, weirdly horny. you can purchase this audiobook on audible! your podcast isn't on spotify, it's on its own server, pay for a different site. fuck, at least you're supporting artists you like. the art museum just raised their ticket price. once, they had a temporary exhibit that acknowledged that ~85% of their permanent art galleries were from cis white men, and that they had thousands of works by women (even famous women, like frida! georgia o'keefe!) just rotting in their basement. that exhibit lasted for 3 months and then they put everything away again.

walmart proudly supports this strip of land by the street! here are some flowers with wilting leaves. its employees have to pay out-of-pocket for their uniforms. my friend once got fined by the city because she organized a community pick-up of the riverfront, which was technically private property.

no, you cannot afford to take that dance class, neither can i. by the way - i'm a teacher. i'm absolutely not saying "educators shouldn't be paid fairly." i'm saying that when i taught classes, renting a studio went from 20 bucks an hour to 180 in the span of 6 months. no significant changes to the studio were made, except they now list the place as updated and friendly. the heat still doesn't work in the building. i have literally never seen the landlord who ignores my emails. recently they've been renting it out at night as an "unusual nightclub; a once-in-a-lifetime close-knit party." they spent some of those 180 dollars on LEDs and called it renovating. the high heels they invite in have been ruining the marley.

do you want to experience the old internet? do you want to play flash games or get back the temporary joy of club penguin? you can, you just need to pay for it. i have a weird, neurodivergent obsession with occasionally checking in to watch the downfall and NFT-ification of neopets. if i'm honest with you all - i never got into webkins, my family didn't have the money to buy me a pointless elephant. people forget that "being poor" can mean literally "if i buy you that toy, i can't afford rent."

you and i don't have time to make good food, and we don't have the budget for it. we are not gonna be able to host dinner parties, we're not made of money, kid. do you want some kind of 3rd space? a space that isn't home or work or school? you could try being online, but - what places actually exist for you? tiktok counts as social media because you see other people on it, not because they actually talk to you.

there was a local winter tradition of sledding down the hill at my school. kids would use pizza boxes and jackets and whatever worked, howling and laughing. back in september, they made a big announcement that this time, rules were changing, and everyone must pay 10 dollars to participate. when im not scared shitless, i kind of appreciate the environmental irony - it hasn't gone below 40. so much for snow & joyriding.

i saw a bulletin for a local dogwalking group and, nervous about making a good first impression, showed up early. the first guy there grimaced at me. "sorry," he said. "there's a 30-dollar buy-in fee." i thought he was joking. wait. for what? the group doesn't offer anything except friendship and people with whom to walk around the city.

he didn't know the answer. just shrugged at me. "you know," he said. "these days, everything costs money."

having a threesome is NOT about sexual attraction. it's about recreating and critiquing the nuclear family unit through a post structuralist lens

Walk Up (Hong Sang-soo, 2022)    

gets in charge of the bookshop for 1 (one) day: shows up in a cardigan vest and metal sleeve garters, keeps the shop CLOSED, avoids selling a single book... iconic, truly did THE MOST, 10/10 😩👌🏻

(also, the way he was this 🤏🏻 close to finally achieving the status of house husband he's been dreaming about for MILLENIA just to have the rug pulled out from under him last minute... truly DEVASTATING 😩 my girl really can't catch a break 🤧)

the whole guilt-tripping language in posts about important topics paired with how I'm still getting bitches in my notes talking about why it's actually good to tell "bad" people to kill themselves continues to prove to me that a lot of people have absolutely no concept of social justice or activism outside of assuming the worst of and then viciously attacking strangers on the internet

dungeon meshi is my favorite road-trip comedy film

i am unreasonably proud and excited about this

Tab aka Walk up, 2022, Hong Sang-soo