Kino Muranów together with Gutek Film invite you to a special screening of the film “No Way Out” and a post-screening conversation with Marta Nowak and Miłosz Wiatrowski–Bujacz, co-creators of the podcast "What Will It Be?" The hardships of recruitment, bosses eager to return to offices, and above all (waning) enthusiasm for generative AI — Marta Nowak and Miłosz Wiatrowski Bujacz will talk after the screening of “No Way Out” about how the labour market is changing today.
March 10, Tuesday, 6:30 PM
When the labour market is merciless, you have to eliminate the competition. The protagonist of “No Way Out” — the new film by Park Chan-wook, the creator of “Oldboy,” “The Handmaiden” and “Decision to Leave” — literally takes matters into his own hands. The Korean master of genre cinema offers an eerily accurate diagnosis of contemporary anxieties — in his uncompromising, authorial style.
Man-su (the star of “Squid Game,” Lee Byung-Hun) leads an ideal life: stable employment, family, a house, two golden retrievers. But one day is enough for the idyll to turn into horror. Man-su loses his job at a paper mill, and with it his status, masculinity, identity, honour and sense of life. To regain them, he will stop at nothing, especially since the dirty work brings as much satisfaction as the paperwork.
Although he mercilessly mocks the rat race, corporate mentality and male ego, the director also comments on the contemporary labour market in the age of AI. “No Way Out,” like the cult “Parasite,” hides insightful observations about class tensions and turbulent social changes beneath layers of black humour. Half joking, half serious, Park Chan-wook poses a provocative question to us: is there a job you could kill for?
