Park Chan-wook says he never intentionally channeled Hitchcock for Decision To Leave
Park Chan-wook's new noir thriller has garnered more than a few comparisons to Hitchcock's Vertigo
There’s been one name—and in particular one film—that has been paired with Park Chan-wook’s noir romance thriller Decision To Leave, over and over again: Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo. However, in an interview with A.V. Club, The Handmaiden director says the auteur’s film never explicitly came to mind when crafting his newest feature.
When asked about the specific references he turned to when writing Decision To Leave, Park says, “I never thought about Vertigo or Hitchcock when I was making the film. Not just for this film, but generally in my creative process, I don’t do that. I’m never thinking about a particular film or filmmaker.”
Like most of us, Park does not remember every detail of every movie he’s ever seen, and cannot sort through them like a Rolodex in his mind for inspiration.
“I think it’s related to the fact that I have bad memory,” Park continues. “I don’t clearly remember the films that I’ve watched, so it’s difficult to pull out of those.”
