Park Chan Wook Looks is a tragicomedy 2025 worth (NYFF)

If you are taking a heart drama about a family patriarch suddenly losing the only profession that he knew at all, so smash it with a social excitement film attached to ruthless wheels of capitalism that all grinds us in dirt, and pumped some of the satirical satirical series that it deserves Author/director Park Chan Wook It starts with “No other option.” Of course, none of these qualifiers is really enough justice for a cinematic director with a unique and distinctive voice like him. Suffice it to say, Park Chan Wook has made another movie that only Park Chan Walk could make-with all the amazing high heights and quietly destroyed declines that indicate this.

It should never look this It is easy for a movie to feel almost anxious and worried, but “there is no other choice” (based on the American novel “Ax” by Donald Witkelik) routinely challenges the agreement in the full sense of the word. Director Park puts a tone as soon as it depicts the opening scene, depicting a hidden image of sunlight of the ideal nuclear family unity. In what may decrease as one of the most delicious offers for this year, Lee Byung-Hun (The latest “Al -Houka Game”) The stars in the role of Man-SOO, in many ways, Abu Shawa Al-Shwawa and the husband, who is directly dropped from the greeting card in the dollar. His very specialized (and profitable) profession provides him with the paper industry all that he wanted ever: a wonderful house, a pair of charismatic dogs, his remarkable-defined wife (Mi-RI (son of the Mashhad Yi-Jarb) and two talented children, tends to circumvent the bear hug for a minute at one time. “I got everything,” declares happily … which may also be a challenge to the invisible deities, daring enough rain from chaos and turmoil that raises a Greek tragedy, despite the re -imagination due to the absurdity of our reality of 2025.

The tumultuous text and laughter are not expected to be loudly, this promise (threat?), Then some Man-Sso work removes away from that. Solar paper was purchased by an American competitor, which led to an effort to reduce its size by the demobilization of the collective workers. No amount of prepared and fake speeches directed to his companies (which he destroyed in a hurry in one of the funniest frequently involuntary cramps in modern memory) can save today, and not when a quarter of a century of high workers in smoke rises. He was stripped of his sense of self -accusation and purpose, Man Soo, reluctantly preparing for life on the unemployment line. The process of abstraction is an endless interview, group treatment sessions are full of hollow confirmation words, and even actual begging of a job outside the men’s room, and soon it is born a deadly plot. From that point onwards, he settled in the number and the most entertaining that you will see throughout the year.

To explain more conspiracy than necessary, it would harm the general goals “No other option.” This is not necessarily due to the fluctuations and turns that it is best to leave uninterrupted (though, yes, there is a lot of those that must be spared). Instead, this is one movie that requires a more comprehensive approach by each player in the cinema. The story is a secondary concern for the emotional arc and the subjects that a man vow all over the soap opera on a trip. As the story advances forward, it takes only months until its bitterness moves to fatal intentions. But instead of following the clear path of the “taxi driver”, he directs his concerns to “The Man”, which is really responsible for his dismissal, our demonic bold hero picks up a scheme aimed at his rival: his fellow unemployed workers who appear in his class in an exciting position.

The essence of the unemployed was rarely captured in all its humiliation and discontents – not to mention a lot of elegance – as it is here. “No other option” is practically a cinephile dream. What seems to be an endless set of relevant shots, and the director of photography camera, Kim Woo Hyung, takes her own life and contributes to the spreading sense of uncomfortable. Acute editing uses sound, lighting and even supports to keep things move at a strong pace. Through all of this, Ain Park Chan Walk strange for more details will constantly draw the eye as you need to go. An unforgettable images such as the yellow rain shoes are given to the child hanging from their legs on an equal footing with a bullet cover that was ignored in a crowded street or a disturbing pain that indicates more symbolic rot, all of this meets together to stir this novel woven with rudeness with the meaning and visual metaphors of the distinguished viewers.

However, more than anything else, the greatest achievement of the director bless here is the expert’s understanding. “There is no other choice” begins as a fairy wisdom, and it moves to something that resembles a moral noir, and is crowned with a ridiculous escalation of violence – however, every different note appears to be part of a larger symphony in the hands of the main conductor. After creating Man Soo as a person at the top of his world in the opening scene, there is no literally anywhere to go from there. The text program is transmitted to some somewhat dark places, but not at the expense of indulging in capabilities. You never feel like anything less than a tense excitement journey … although only one or two inch away from flying from bars. By the time when we reach the endless end, at this point, the 139 -minute operating time appears to fly at half the time, the dark humor finally gives a bitter awareness: when capitalism calls the bullets, there is nothing like going out in the foreground.

While those familiar with Park Chan-Look (including on the TV side of things With “sympathy” HBO) It will find that this is an ideal piece with its greatest result, “no other option” is almost paradoxes as if it is a great preliminary preliminary for the new expatriates. It will be much simplified to describe the last of it as distillation of the director’s interests, but it definitely carries all the distinctive features of what made a profession in doing it well. The constant threat of violence is a heavy suspended on most of the movie, such as an invisible entity that pushes Man-Sso to the course of no return. Romanticism, gender, and a strong hidden inclination takes a strong hidden where the story takes a darker turn, boils in the background and is waiting for her to be unleashed at the most appropriate moment (in). Of course, this text never sends the policy inherent in the heart of its hypothesis. By placing this in the midst of dogs to eat from the workers with blue collapses to go in the throat of each other, while officials laugh on their way to the bank, the director Park again found a new and strong angle like any movie this year.

But more than anything else, the evil humor shown at each turn makes “no other option” the ideal movie to recommend for those who may not know exactly what they have. The early sequence that includes the IPAD device may be the most difficult that laughed at a scene (well, sound) years ago, just to be by another that includes the most uncomfortable video calls. (The director Park performs a ton of laughter and objective credit from the idea of ​​analog against digital. For them, all of this is linked to each other through physical performance and commitment to the performance of the inaccurate Lee Byung-Hun performance, and it stumbles and is on its way to a counter-path that no one is absolutely wrong in the deadly efficiency in Walter White.

The end result is the funniest movie Bad Bad throughout the ages, although the film that will make its way to your thoughts after a long period of credit list. “There is no other option” is evidence of this type of rare theatrical experience-one capable of being much more than it appears from the outside.

/Film classification: 8 out of 10

It is currently scheduled to “no other option” for a limited theatrical version of December 25, 2025.