8.6
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Past Lives (2023)
Past Lives (2023)
Overview
After decades apart, childhood friends Nora and Hae Sung are reunited in New York for one fateful weekend as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Center
Political: Center
Diversity: Moderate
Buddhism: Positive
Viewer Rating
8.6
Overview
After decades apart, childhood friends Nora and Hae Sung are reunited in New York for one fateful weekend as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Center
Primary
The film explores themes of immigration, identity, and cultural displacement through a deeply humanistic and introspective lens, focusing on personal experiences and relationships rather than endorsing a specific political ideology or partisan stance.
The movie features a diverse cast centered on Korean American characters and their experiences, contributing to greater representation. Its narrative deeply explores themes of immigration and cultural identity, without explicitly critiquing traditional identities, presenting them neutrally or positively.
Secondary
The film utilizes the Buddhist-derived concept of *in-yun* (fate/connection across lives) as a central narrative device, exploring its philosophical implications for human relationships with nuance and depth. While characters discuss it with a mix of sincerity and skepticism, the narrative treats the concept with respect, using it to enrich the film's themes of destiny and connection.
Past Lives does not explicitly portray LGBTQ+ characters or themes. While its universal exploration of love, connection, and identity resonates deeply with queer audiences, the film's narrative itself does not feature any direct LGBTQ+ representation, leading to an N/A rating for depiction.
Past Lives (2023) does not feature any transsexual characters or themes within its narrative. The film focuses on a decades-spanning romantic drama and the Korean immigrant experience, without any depiction or discussion of the transsexual community or related issues.
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
The film "Past Lives" is a semi-autobiographical drama where all major characters' on-screen genders align with their real-life or source counterparts. There are no instances of characters established as one gender being portrayed as a different gender.
The film's major characters, Nora and Hae Sung, are established as Korean within the original narrative. They are portrayed by actors of Korean descent, aligning with their characters' ethnic and phenotypical traits. No character established as one race was portrayed as a different race.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
7.8
7.7
Critic Ratings
9.5
9.4
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