Have you been out there in the job market lately? It’s pretty awful. But if you’re in desperate need of work, how far would you go to slay the competition? Would you literally SLAY the competition? Well, Lee Byung-hun would go that far in Park Chan-wook’s hilarious satire, No Other Choice.
Squid Game‘s Byung-hun stars as a man who has spent his entire adult life working for a paper company. But when he’s abruptly laid off, and has no means of providing for his family, he sets out on a murderous plan to eliminate all competition in the crowded job market.
What follows is a roller coaster of bloody hijinks, mixing violence and dark comedy in the Chan-wook style. It’s the kind of movie that will speak to audiences struggling through our current economic climate. Similar to Parasite, it asks you to sympathize with the lead character’s desperate plight without feeling like you’re cheering on the bad guy.
In short, I loved No Other Choice when I saw it at TIFF. You can read my review here.
Synopsis: A man gets laid off from the paper company where he worked for 25 years. Some time later, and still jobless, he hits on a solution: to genuinely eliminate his competition.
NEON will open No Other Choice in theaters on Christmas Day.
