Park Chan Wook's NO OTHER CHOICE is the absolute best sort of film, one that provokes a wide variety of reactions and get conversations started. When the film ended Hubert and I started talking and we did not stop until I got off the subway 45 minutes later at Penn Station. If I hadn't done so we would have still been talking.
The plot of the film has a 25 year veteran of a paper company getting laid off with a number of other employees when an American company takes over the company. Desperate for a job when the money runs out, he deduces that the best way to get a job he is trying to get would be to kill the people more likely ti get the job. What follows is a comedy of errors as he tries to kill the people and it all goes side ways.
This is a well made black comedy that has divided audiences. While most people have liked the film the discussion has been as to how good the film is. At the screening I attended many people were laughing heartily and others were just sitting there and smiling. My reaction was to enjoy the film but not to love it. I never fully connected to the humor. It was a bit too mannered and not fully my cup of tea.
While I didn't fully connect, I was appreciative of the film's pondering the cut throat world of capitalistic world. Its portrait of a world where people will kill to make a buck. It's a notion that is sadly being propagated by the head of the United States who wants to wipe out anyone who ever told him no. It's a world that I am not quite cut out for.
If you are a fan of the director or if you like a no holds barred comedic look at todays society this fiilm is for you.
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