Opinion
Possible Love afterthought: A sober anthropology of human dignity
It took director Lee Chang-dong eight years to return to the screen and to his enduring themes of class and desire, money and human relationships, with the value of human labor added to the layer. Possible Love, Lee’s first film since Burning in 2018, brings together two married couples whose lives could hardly be further apart. Ho-seok, played by Sul Kyung-gu, is a laid-off factory worker left scarred by a violent labor dispute. His wife Mi-ok, played by Jeon Do-yeon,
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