다음 소희
Drama
South Korea
Language: Korean
Subtitles: English and Czech
Directing: July Jung
Starring: Kim Si-eun, Bae Doona
Distributor: Finecut
Guest: July Jung
The film be introduced by director JULY JUNG, and the screening will be followed by a Q&A with the director.
A radical and shocking film that reveals the many levels on which a system can fail an entire generation and rob them of their future. A promising student, Sohee, joins a telecommunications company to gain experience for future employment. Her career optimism is replaced by a disillusionment with the relentless and toxic corporate culture, eventually culminating in a disaster. Detective Yoo-jin arrives to investigate the girl’s suicide while uncovering the truth about the working conditions in the company.
Next Sohee is a unique film inspired by a true story that makes viewers feel the hopelessness of working life of an entire generation of Koreans. The investigation is not simply a great corporate crime drama, but also manages to expose a series of institutional failures. Schools fail to provide students with mental health care, corporations exploit employees, nurturing a toxic and chauvinistic work culture, and employees exploit desperate customers on the phone lines. As the cycle of despair continues, will Yoo-Jin be able to solve the case? The problem is there is no definite explanation, rather a whole series of wrongdoing and the apathy of everyone around.
This sensitive and uncompromising criticism of Korean work culture is much better on the big screen as an intellectually stimulating punch to the groin. Director July Jung has made one of the most important Korean films of recent years.
