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Lee Chang-dong’s Possible Love: Your Stories Are Not Your Own

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Oct 27, 2026

“Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder — a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.” — Susan Sontag, On Photography

Possible Love' review: Korean drama has four of the year's best  performances : NPR

There is much in common between Lee Chang-dong’s latest masterwork and the ideas found in Sontag’s writings — particularly that of On Photography. In Possible Love, Lee Chang-d…

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