{"id":97327,"date":"2026-11-03T17:05:59","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T09:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=97327"},"modified":"2026-11-03T17:05:59","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T09:05:59","slug":"possible-love-director-lee-chang-dong-on-class-divide-and-desire-in-his-oscar-hopeful-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=97327","title":{"rendered":"Possible Love director Lee Chang-dong on class divide and desire in his Oscar-hopeful drama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/11\/03\/06aaec08-1fa5-4433-ab68-4a019b921ddb_ee8cabfd.jpg?itok=BapNC4bp&amp;v=1793673305\" \/><\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\">The film marked the first release in eight years from <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Lee Chang-dong<\/span> \u2013 the novelist, former politician and filmmaker whose previous work, the 2018 mystery drama <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Burning<\/em>, was one of that year\u2019s most critically acclaimed. Given that his preceding film, 2010\u2019s <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Poetry<\/em>, arrived another eight years prior, new Lee projects are rare events to be savoured.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\">One might assume Lee spent the intervening years meticulously crafting <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Possible Love<\/em>, given the screenplay\u2019s layered complexity. Summarising it as a tale of two couples \u2013 one rich, one poor \u2013 barely scratches the surface.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/k-drama\/k-movies\/article\/3373060\/possible-love-director-lee-chang-dong-class-divide-and-desire-his-oscar-hopeful-drama\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The film marked the first release in eight years from Lee Chang-dong \u2013 the novelist, former politician and filmmaker whose previous work, the 2018 mystery&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":97328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[29588,3596,21178,2626,47,8816,1063,772,32377],"class_list":["post-97327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-changdong","tag-class","tag-desire","tag-director","tag-divide","tag-drama","tag-lee","tag-love","tag-oscarhopeful","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/97328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}