Tag Archives: Unemployment

No Other Choice (2025) ☆☆☆(3/4): Killing for employment

Posted on September 25, 2025 by kaist455

Park Chan-wook’s latest film “No Other Choice” is another dark and twisted genre piece you can expect from its director. Following its plain ordinary family guy’s murderous struggle for getting employed, the movie provides a series of morbidly humorous moments … Continue reading →

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Where Is Kyra? (2017) ☆☆☆(3/4): Her slow descent to another bottom

Posted on August 19, 2018 by kaist455

Watching “Where Is Kyra?” is akin to observing a slow, irreversible descent. No matter how much its heroine tries, it is quite clear that she is destined to hit another bottom in one way or another, and the movie is … Continue reading →

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I, Daniel Blake (2016) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4): Small daily struggles against an unfair system

Posted on December 16, 2016 by kaist455

Ken Roach’s new film “I, Daniel Blake”, which won the Palme d’Or award at the Cannes Film Festival early in this year, is angry about the maddening incompetence of a system which is supposed to help and support people. Watching … Continue reading →

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The Measure of a Man (2015) ☆☆☆(3/4): A man’s quiet economic struggle

Posted on January 28, 2016 by kaist455

Calmly looking into its plain working class hero’s quiet economic struggle, French social drama film “The Measure of a Man” shares his desperation and frustration with us during the first half and then throws some hard moral questions during the … Continue reading →

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Two Days, One Night (2014) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4) : The Desperate Weekend

Posted on December 30, 2014 by kaist455

 “Two Days, One Night” starts with a close-up shot of its heroine, and then it rarely looks away from her as she struggles through her several difficult days. She is reluctant about doing what she should do in her circumstance, … Continue reading →

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The Journal of Musan (2010) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5) : A lonely man struggling at the bottom

Posted on July 3, 2011 by kaist455

You may not notice him while walking around the streets of Seoul. He is a lonely man downtrodden everyday at the bottom of South Korean society. He is usually quiet with passive attitude and his drooped head. He has silently … Continue reading →

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