Adapted by screenwriter and director Park Chan-wook from the novel by crime writer Donald E Westlake (Point Blank, The Grifters), No Other Choice is a black comedy on one man’s response to being downsized.
The new American company taking over Solar Paper has ‘no other choice’ but to axe jobs and make savings. With the perfect family and forest situated home, the suddenly redundant You Man-su (played by The Squid Game’s Lee Byung-hun) believes he’s about to lose it all once his redundancy payments stop.
Desperate he concludes he has ‘no other choice’ but to get rid of all other potential paper industry contenders so he can get a new job in his field. Man-su hatches a plan to lure his competitors into his sphere then dispatch them in a series of grisly acts.
As we struggle to secure the lifestyles of our expectations, and with ambitions made increasingly uncertain by the unpredictable impact of AI and endless world crises, the ever-elegant and unpredictable Park Chan-wook has made a biting satire for our times.