{"id":187587,"date":"2025-10-09T08:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T08:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/187587\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T08:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T08:13:08","slug":"park-chan-wook-imagines-deadly-job-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/187587\/","title":{"rendered":"Park Chan-wook imagines deadly job hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"

The new trailer for Park Chan-wook\u2019s No Other Choice may actually make you feel thankful for LinkedIn<\/a>, Indeed, and the endless stream of interviews every company seems to require nowadays. Getting rejected from a dream job may feel like the end of the world, but for the most part, it won\u2019t actually kill you. Many of the job-seekers in the Oldboy<\/a> and Decision To Leave<\/a> director\u2019s blistering new satire won\u2019t be so lucky.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Adapted from Donald E. Westlake\u2019s novel The Ax, No Other Choice tells the story of Man-soo (Squid Game<\/a>\u2018s Lee Byung-hun), a man on a \u201cdesperate hunt for a new job after his abrupt layoff from the paper company he served for 25 years,\u201d per its logline. \u201cDesperate\u201d is almost an understatement. In the trailer, Man-soo attempts to literally kill his competition, first with a dropped vase to the head and eventually with a gun hidden under several layers of what appear to be oven mitts. (It\u2019s that first attempt that earns the trailer\u2019s title drop, by the way; Man-soo simply has \u201cno other choice.\u201d) Of course, none of this actually guarantees he\u2019ll get the job; he still has to impress the boss in his interview.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

If this scenario sounds like an extremely dark twist on a familiar favorite, you\u2019re not alone in drawing that parallel. The back half of No Other Choice is \u201clike if an episode of The Office culminated in Jim turning into a serial killer,\u201d Jason Gorber wrote in his review for The A.V. Club<\/a>. Neon gave No Other Choice a cheery Christmas Day premiere date (in select theaters), so you can take in some more job stress on your brief time off. If you want to save that for the new year, the film opens everywhere in January.<\/p>\n

Park Chan-wook takes a cutthroat economy literally in bloody, blistering satire No Other Choice<\/a>Critics\u2019 Choice TV Awards give BERT!, other deserving TV people their due<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new trailer for Park Chan-wook\u2019s No Other Choice may actually make you feel thankful for LinkedIn, Indeed,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-187587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}