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Film Reviews: New releases for Jan. 2
No Other Choice; The Plague; We Bury the Dead
"No Other Choice" Neon Films "The Plague" IFC Films "We Bury the Dead" IFC Films No Other Choice ***1/2 The title of Park Chan-wook’s thriller—adapted from the Donald Westlake novel The Ax —is repeated multiple times by characters in a variety of circumstances, all of them part of a meditation on how easy it is to pretend you don’t have moral agency for a situation.
It’s spoken first to You Man-su (Lee Byung-hun), a middle manager at a paper company, when he’s laid off by the company’s new American owners.
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