Making an Oscar nominated film doesnx27;t make Celine Song better than Park Chan-wook. Therefore calling English world as the centre of the world of arts is a false statement to me. Apart from that, I resonate with the agony of living between triple identities as an immigrant: the identity as an Korean who is unconditionally accepted and too much loved by the motherland; the identity as an American who is a self-made success and forever forward-looking; and the identity of American Korean who belongs neither side. They title it as Past Lives as if one could leave behind the old days. Yet Nora's tears in the end seems to be a loudest cry proving the opposite: the past will grow on you and you will have to grow with the past.