Choice to Go away is clearly Park’s nod to basic Hollywood and Hitchcock’s Vertigo specifically, and but in some ways it seems like an evolution from his earlier movies. Whereas The Handmaiden and Oldboy have been extra excessive of their use of intercourse and violence, this movie is far more delicate. Park distinguishes the movie from previous initiatives, highlighting as an alternative the centrality of the characters’ emotional journey:
“If my earlier movies have been intense, made with the purpose of offering a really stimulating expertise, Choice to Go away is a movie that subtly and imperceptibly pulls the viewers in and captures their curiosity. So there’s not a lot violence, nudity or sexual content material. Nonetheless, I needed to depict these sophisticated feelings that any human, and any grownup, can empathize with.”