"Decision to Leave" dir. Park Chan-wook | Philosophical Meetings | Kino Muranów
About the event
Kino Muranów together with Gutek Film invite you to a special preview screening of the film “Decision to Leave” directed by Park Chan-wook ("Oldboy", "Lady Vengeance", "The Handmaiden"). The screening is part of the PHILOSOPHICAL MEETINGS series at Kino Muranów, and the discussion after the film will be led by guests from the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Warsaw.
March 11 (Wednesday), 8:00 PM.
Venue: Kino Muranów, Warsaw.
PHILOSOPHICAL MEETINGS is a series of meetings, each consisting of a film screening from the Gutek Film repertoire and a conversation with the audience directly inspired by the film. “Decision to Leave” — a film about the merciless Korean labor market — asks pointed questions about the ethics of our actions to obtain a dream job or while climbing the corporate ladder.
About the film:
When the job market is merciless, you have to eliminate the competition. The protagonist of “Decision to Leave” — Park Chan-wook’s new film, the creator of “Oldboy”, “The Handmaiden” and “The Suspect” — literally takes matters into his own hands. The Korean master of genre cinema delivers an unsettlingly accurate diagnosis of contemporary fears in his uncompromising, auteur style.
Man-su (star of “Squid Game”, Lee Byung-Hun) leads an ideal life: stable employment, family, home, two golden retrievers. But it takes only one day for the idyll to turn into a horror. Man-su loses his job at a paper factory, and with it his status, masculinity, identity, honor and sense of life. To get them back, he will stop at nothing, especially since the dirty work brings as much satisfaction as the paperwork.
Although it mercilessly mocks the rat race, corporate mentality and male ego, the director also speaks about the contemporary labor market in the age of AI. “Decision to Leave”, like the cult “Parasite”, hides insightful observations about class tensions and turbulent social changes beneath layers of dark humour. Half-joking, half-serious, Park Chan-wook asks us a provocative question: is there a job you could kill for?
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