Man Su is the Korean equivalent of a Japanese 'salaryman': you join a company straight from school and stay there till you retire. In his case it's a company that makes paper. He has a lovely house, two kids, two Labradors, two smart cars. But the company has just been taken over by Americans and they make many of the workforce, including Man Su, redundant. 3 months later he is doing grunt work at a supermarket, the mortgage is in arrears, they can't afford to feed the dogs and his autistic daughter is losing out on her cello lessons -- the only thing that brings her to life.There are jobs out there in other paper companies but competition is fierce and Man Su concludes that the only way to get his old life back is to get rid of the opposition, in the most final way. He has his dad's old, unregistered, pistol. But a man who's spent his life at a desk job is hardly well equipped to kill his rivals, let alone dispose of the bodies.It's an interesting premise. I found the film a little slow, a little long. There are a few laughs but the morality of the tale is, well, immoral.
Susan Kelly ● 107d