Hong Sang-soo’s cinema is one in which his characters consistently avoid reality, whether by constructing explanatory narratives and patterns or by turning other people into emotionally projected images. Woman on the Beach (2007), I argue, openly diagnoses this tendency and finds instead what one of its characters calls “the real thing.” Placing this film in the context of Hong’s oeuvre as a whole, I explore Hong’s overarching interest in trying to see “the real thing” instead of imaginatively constructing it. And thus, in a career frequently compared to Rohmer’s, Woman on the Beach, with its search for this almost mystical encounter with reality, emerges as Hong’s variation on Rohmer’s own search for what’s real in Le Rayon vert (1986).

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“关于奇迹”：在洪尚秀的《沙滩上的女人》和埃里克·侯麦的《Le Rayon vert》中看到“真实的东西”

洪尚洙的电影是一部他的角色一贯回避现实的电影，无论是通过构建解释性叙事和模式，还是通过将其他人变成情感投射的图像。我认为，海滩上的女人（2007 年）公开诊断了这种趋势，并找到了其中一个角色所称的“真实事物”。将这部电影放在洪的全部作品的背景下，我探索洪的首要兴趣是试图看到“真实的东西”，而不是想象地构建它。因此，在一个经常与侯麦相提并论的职业生涯中，海滩上的女人寻求与现实的这种近乎神秘的相遇，作为洪对侯麦自己在 Le Rayon vert (1986) 中对真实事物的探索的变体出现。