122. Hong Sang-soo: Yourself and Yours

In this episode, we get into Ben’s favorite Hong film of all time, Yourself and Yours. If On The Beach At Night Alone is Hong’s first reflection on the scandalized reception to the reveal of his relationship with Kim Min-hee, Ben shares the theory that Yourself and Yours is secretly the one about its beginning. 

In our discussion, we try to pin down Minjung’s slippery personas, pick apart the film’s dream sequences, define the qualities of Hong’s surrealist and yet mundane approach, and ask, what does it take to be a Hong film that believes in love?

Links:

Yourself and Yours segmentation

Inexplicable doppelganger list

Hong Sang-soo Notarized: Yourself and Yours

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Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

02:00 Film Intro

04:05 General reactions

09:12 AFA Post screening discussion 

11:45 Film context

15:20 Structure / segmentation

20:28 Doppelgangers and dreams

26:06 Perception of Mnjung

31:09 The ending

33:47 Context in Hong’s career

36:25 Ben’s favorite scene

40:15 Parallel characters and Hong-isms

46:00 Reflection on discussion

53:45 Outro