Past Lives (2023)

Teo Yoo: Hae Sung

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• Hae Sung : What if this is a past life as well, and we are already something else to each other in our next life? Who do you think we are then?

• Hae Sung : I didn't know that liking your husband would hurt this much.

• Hae Sung : I liked you for who you are; and who you are is a person who leaves.

  Hae Sung : But for him, you're the person who stays.

• Hae Sung : If you had never left Seoul, would I still have looked for you?

• Hae Sung : Seeing you again... and being here... makes me have a lot of weird thoughts.

  Nora : What kind of thoughts?

  Hae Sung : What if I'd come to New York twelve years ago? What if you had never left Seoul? If you hadn't just left like that, and we just grew up together... would I still have looked for you? Would we have dated? Broken up? Gotten married? Would we have had kids together? Thoughts like that. But the truth I learned here is, you had to leave because you're you. And the reason I liked you is because you're you. And who you are is someone who leaves.

• Nora : The Na Young you remember... doesn't exist here.

  Hae Sung : I know.

  Nora : But... that little girl did exist. She's not sitting here in front of you... but it doesn't mean she's not real. Twenty years ago, I left her behind with you.

  Hae Sung : I know. And even though I was only twelve, I loved her.

• Nora : We were babies then.

  Hae Sung : Right. And when we met twelve years ago... we were babies then, too.

  Nora : We're not babies anymore.

• Hae Sung : Korea is too small of a country for you. It's not enough to satisfy your ambition.

• Nora : I think there was something in our past lives. Otherwise, why would we be here together right now? But in this life... we don't have the In-Yun to be that kind of person to each other. Because now, finally, we're in the same city for the first time in twenty years...

  Hae Sung : We're sitting here with your husband. In this life, you and Arthur are that kind of In-Yun to each other. You two have the 8000 layers of In-Yun. To Arthur, you're someone who stays.

• Hae Sung : You said you're leaving Korea to win the Nobel Prize. You still want that?

  Nora : Nowadays... I'm really interested in the Pulitzer.

  Hae Sung : You're the same as the 12-year-old kid I remember.

  Nora : Greedy?

  Hae Sung : Wants to do everything, wants to have everything.

• Hae Sung : What prize do you want to win nowadays? When you were little you wanted to win the Nobel Prize, and twelve years ago you wanted to win the Pulitzer. What do you want to win now?

  Nora : I haven't thought of things like that recently.

  Hae Sung : Really? Then think about it for a moment. There must be an award you want.

  Nora : A Tony.

  Hae Sung : You really are exactly the same as I remember you.

• Nora : Why did you look for me?

  Hae Sung : Twelve years ago? Do you really want to know? I just wanted to see you one more time. I don't know. Because you just left so suddenly... I was a little pissed off.

  Nora : Sorry.

  Hae Sung : What are you sorry about?

  Nora : You're right. There's nothing to be sorry about.

• Hae Sung : [explaining why he has not gotten married]  I'm an only child. If you're going to marry an only son, he should make more money and be better. I'm too ordinary.

  Nora : You're ordinary?

  Hae Sung : My job is ordinary, my income is ordinary. It's all ordinary. She should meet someone more impressive than me.