But then the title, No Other Choice, serves as an exculpatory mantra for a number of characters – not just Man-su – who all want to foist the blame for their own intransigence onto the mean old cosmos.
Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice, starring Son Ye-jin and Lee Byung-hun was nowhere to be found ... No Other Choice had been widely praised as one of Park’s strongest late-career works, precise, morally thorny, and devastating in its quietest moments.
Just how much do you need for the good life? The bar is set high in the opening scene of No Other Choice, the new film by South Korean director Park Chan-wook (Oldboy, The Handmaiden and, most recently, the sublime Decision to Leave).
Park Chan-wook’s new film about a man who takes a violent approach to finding employment feels scarily resonant in the age of AI, writes Alistair Harkness....
I don’t know why it was cut down ...Whatever the reason — and in the post-Superstorm Sandy era, many homeowners have needed no reason beyond their memory of fallen trees, damaged homes and downed power lines — it’s always sad when a tree comes down ... ....
No Other Choice, Park’s 12th feature, channels his pet preoccupations – confinement, bumbling ultraviolence, bad decisions – into a scathing anti-capitalist satire ... No Other Choice is dedicated to the 92-year-old film-maker ... No Other Choice.