Review of Right Now, Wrong Then (2015) by Franz C — 06 Apr 2018

With a running time of two hours, the picture is divided into two. At sixty minutes, we have seen all there is to see in the meeting of strangers. At minute sixty-one, we are thrusted back into the story, title card included, where Cheon-soo is looking around an unfamiliar place-but now familiar to us-just as he did when we first laid eyes on his unconfident demeanor.

And therein lies the magic of the film: It is a second chance to look at something... but this time more closely, more intensely. We note of similarities and differences, obvious and subtle: the placement of the camera, when it decides to go in for a closeup, how characters react to one another and what they choose to reveal or keep hidden depending on the flow of conversation.

We have all been in a situation where we wondered what might have happened if we have done or said something differently, had been more honest, more daring or straightforward.