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There are many moments in Past Lives that discuss the concept of fate, or as described in the film, “in-yeon.” According to the film’s protagonist, “in-yeon” is something that Koreans say in order to seduce someone else. Yet these coincidences in the lives of its characters only keep bringing them together, almost like the two of them were meant to be, and it becomes too hard to really see them as chance encounters but as fate. Which very well may be the best way to describe the nature of the romance in Celine Song’s first film. It’s a love story about what could have been, but also where these people are in their present lives, and where they’re set to go in the future.
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