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No Other Choice review: Park Chan-wook's darkly comic thriller is brilliantly executed
Looking for work is tough, but there’s a difference between stalking people on LinkedIn and then just stalking them. Man-su (Squid Game’s Lee Byung-hun) opts for the latter when pursuing a new position. Made redundant after 25 years of service at the Solar Paper company, after a series of embarrassing interviews and temp jobs, Man-su hunts down the competition for the next big gig and begins eliminating them in ludicrous, often hilarious, fashion.
The superb latest effort from Park Chan-wook (Oldboy, The Handmaiden), No Other Choice is an adaptation of The Ax, a 1997 novel by Donald E. Westlake, which was previously adapted in 2005 by Greek-French filmmaker Costa-Gavras (to whom this film is dedicated). Entirely gripping, ink-black funny and formally ambitious, it’s a diatribe against the human churn of the contemporary workplace (a darkly cynical spin on Chaplin’s Modern Times),a sharp disassembly of masculine performance and, among many other things, a love letter to the tactile pleasures of paper and printed media and the human beings who work with them.
Park Chan-wook: ‘We certainly do have other choices’
The violently competitive world of HR and employment is the subject matter of the South Korean filmmaker’s highly prescient latest.
Most filmmakers are lucky if they make one masterpiece in their lifetime – Park Chan-wook can’t seem to stop doing it. No Other Choice is his long-awaited adaptation of Donald Westlake’s 1997 corporate satire-thriller ​‘The Ax’, about a laid-off employee who decides to thin out the job pool. Reuniting with leading man Lee Byung-hun, director Park executes a sharp, timely and blisteringly funny tale of personal greed, while pondering the lurking evil of AI.
LWLies: You’ve spoken about your desire to adapt ​‘The Ax’ into a film a few times over the years, but I wonder how your understanding or perception of that story has changed since you first read it?
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