There’s this part in the film, it’s a great part, where the man is explaining to his German friend why it’s so difficult for him to describe the taste of tea. He says, “There’s no language for it. There are no words to adequately express the mysterious nature of tea”. And his German friend, who’s just standing right beside him with a cup of tea, says, “Yes, but I imagine things like you are walking through a forest, and there are leaves on the ground, and it just had rained, and the rain has stopped, and it’s damp, and you walk, and somehow, that is all in this tea”. I mean, I loved that so much. I loved that so much. “Somehow, that is all in this tea”. God, I watched it over and over again.
AFTER YANG (2021) dir. Kogonada
