- But why are you immigrating? Na Young's father is a film director, and you're an artist. Why would you leave all that behind?
- When you leave something behind, you gain something, too.
There is a word in Korean. In-Yun. It means "providence". Or… "fate". But it’s specifically about relationships between people. I think it comes from Buddhism and reincarnation. It’s an In-Yun if two strangers even walk by each other in the street and their clothes accidentally brush. Because it means there must have been something between them in their past lives. If two people get married, they say it’s because there have been 8,000 layers of In-Yun. Over 8,000 lifetimes.
PAST LIVES (2023) dir. Celine Song