Park Chan-wook - Making Fun of the Audience

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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