Boasting a corporate jargon title associated with evading responsibility, Park Chan-wook’s anti-capitalist parable No Other Choice might feel too real to those burned by modern employment.
Based on Donald E. Westlake’s 1997 novel The Ax and written by Park, Lee Kyoung-mi, Jahye Lee, and Don McKellar, the film provides biting social commentary by asking the question: Is killing for the role you want a morally sound choice in this economy?
Mashable UK Editor Shannon Connellan sat down with Park and No Other Choice star Lee Byung-hun to discuss the film’s skewering of the hyper competitive job market.
“We all live in the capitalist system, we all comply to it, and we’re all trying very hard to survive in it as well. And we don’t often question the system itself,” Park told Mashable. “But when we do come upon the question of ‘what if we could live in a different situation?’ it leads to a very tricky state where you’re considering ideas of getting rid of the system, or we’re brainstorming ideas to take action to destroy the system. It’s a very difficult state to be in.
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