Korean film and television have always been known for "daring to shoot".
The premise of daring is truth.
The grasp of life is implemented in a down-to-earth manner, which resonates strongly with the audience.
Recently, another unpopular new work has been released.
Led by the powerful actress Pei Douna, in a bloody way, gathered the real situation of workers in the workplace.
With the release of resources, the Douban score rose from 7.5 to 7.9.
Surpassed "Determination to Break Up" and "Hunting" to become the highest score of Korean Film in 2022.
Uncle Yu predicts that this score should continue to rise.
After all, the content of the movie can really poke the hearts of countless ordinary people.
Workplace PUA, yin and yang contracts, capital exploitation, are kicked out one by one.
Many netizens have seen the bloody truth that they have encountered or happened around them.
Today, Uncle Yu will come to recommend it -
"The Next So-hee"
Next Sohee
The story begins with a vocational high school student, Suhee.
Toward graduation, she needs to complete her final credits, internships.
The head teacher handed her a brief and pushed her into the customer service department of a large communications company.
It is said that this is a rare position in a large company.
"We Suxi really worked hard."
Walking into the company, Suxi felt a huge gap.
Employees bury themselves in cubicles and stare at screens with headphones on.
Everyone spoke in an emotionless tone, quickly communicating with the other end of the phone.
After only watching for half a day and receiving a copy of the "Speech Manual", Suxi officially took up his post.
The content of the work sounds somewhat contradictory.
It is clearly customer service, but the company calls it a "defense mechanism".
On the surface, it is to solve the problem for the customer, but in fact, every effort is made to prevent the termination of the contract.
"Try to get him to change his mind as much as possible"
Retaining customers is indispensable for maneuvering words.
When encountering an acute child, it is also common to provoke the other party to scold.
The dirty words that pop up from time to time will always surprise Suxi.
Not to mention, there are perverted customers from time to time.
Vulgar and explicit language already constitutes sexual harassment.
But So-hee can't get angry.
Because of a complaint from a customer, she is bound to be unable to eat and go.
As a workplace novice, Suxi can't keep up with the rhythm at all.
With a protracted workload and frequent complaints, she clearly needed more systematic training.
The group leader's teachings sound more like threats.
"If you continue to do this, it won't last long."
Swallow your anger just to save until payday.
But when he got the salary slip, Suxi was dumbfounded.
The contract clearly stated that the monthly salary was 1.6 million won (about 8,480 yuan), but it was not even half of it.
She was angry and found the team leader, but was easily refuted by the other party with the hidden clause in the corner of the contract.
The composition of salary is "basic salary + performance commission".
Suxi's performance has not even reached the qualified line, and naturally he cannot get a commission.
Even more frightening is the suffocating atmosphere of the company.
Every morning, there is a criticism meeting.
Whose performance dragged its feet, who was complained by customers yesterday.
As soon as the president came, even the team leader followed suit.
"Are you all trash?"
A dark cloud hangs over everyone's heads.
The first to collapse was the team leader.
Every client who has a dirty word needs him to visit back to appease.
Later, he was found committing suicide by burning charcoal.
Quietly, wade in the car downstairs of the company.
The leaders of the head office rushed to hear the news and cooperated with the police to go through the process.
The case was characterized as "suicide due to dereliction of duty", which quickly calmed the turmoil.
On the second day, a new team leader took office.
Without expressing condolences or even having time to meet the employees, they rushed to urge everyone to return to work to catch up.
Then, he pulled out a wad of confidentiality books and asked each employee to remain silent about the death of the old team leader.
From the moment he signed the confidentiality document, Suhee changed.
She became the most "rolled" one in the office.
No longer suspect whether the rights and interests of customers have been violated, and can fool one by one.
Even the time to rest and breathe the air, the performance is hung on the lips.
She became the company's performance champion.
It wasn't until the second payday that she was dumbfounded again.
On the grounds that she was an intern, the company withheld her commission and waited two months before issuing it to her, in order to avoid the intern resigning early.
Not only is the explanation unreasonable, but the new team leader's consolation is even more absurd.
"You should have deposited a sum of money in the bank."
Suxi repeatedly failed to ask for a salary, but was humiliated by the team leader.
"Poor", completely stepped on Suxi's minefield.
She threw her fists to knock the team leader down, and was suspended for it.
"Poor sour, are you so short of money?"
A few days later, Sohee disappeared.
When I saw her again, it was already a wet corpse in the reservoir.
The director of this film, Zheng Juli, once became famous with her debut film "Dao Xi Ya".
The delicate female perspective makes many viewers unique.
Zheng Julie and Pei Douna
In this film, she and Pei Douna cooperate again to reveal the truth little by little.
After forensic identification, So-hee died of suicide.
The facts are conclusive, but Officer Wu (played by Pei Douna), who is in charge of the case, is unwilling to give up the investigation.
She wants to dig up whose fault is it for the suicide of a high school junior.
Blame parents?
Before committing suicide, Sohee had spent several days at home.
He even used to self-harm, and once had a tendency to commit suicide.
It stands to reason that parents who get along day and night should know their daughter's emotions best.
However, his father had no idea what Suxi had said, what state he had, and he didn't even know about self-harm.
What is repeatedly mentioned is only to advise my daughter to work hard.
However, the father also had his own rhetoric.
He claims that since his daughter's internship, they have seen each other only a handful of times.
There are chat logs and pay slips to back this up.
So-hee goes out early every morning and never leaves work before 8 p.m.
Exhausted, but only half of the contract salary in a month.
Blame the company?
Business leaders immediately gave their own defenses.
First, the provisions are legal.
The company calculates wages according to performance, and those who can work more.
Efficient employees can complete their workloads on time and leave work on time.
Second, Suxi's family is poor.
If it weren't for the poor conditions at home, you wouldn't have to work hard.
To sum up, this is the "spontaneous and voluntary" overtime of the staff.
These words naturally cannot withstand scrutiny.
Officer Wu soon discovered that the company was playing a yin and yang contract.
However, the speech of one executive blocked Officer Wu's mouth.
The scope of the police's duties is to investigate the cause of So-hee's death, not to hold a yin-yang contract.
If Suxi feels too bitter and tired, he can apply for resignation.
Therefore, her suicide has nothing to do with the company.
"If you feel difficult, just quit your job."
The president on the side took the opportunity to spit bitterly.
This is clearly the problem of the school, and the company is also the injured party.
"Throwing a student with such a serious problem at us."
Blame the school?
Suhee's classmate revealed the source of the pressure to Officer Wu.
The dismissal of an intern by a company will be regarded as a great shame.
Schools will put red name tags on dismissed students and arrange for them to clean toilets and garbage dumps as a sign of humiliation.
But the head teacher looked innocent.
You also have to look at the face of the company, otherwise students will not be able to enter the company in the future.
He is thinking about the whole student and taking into account the big picture.
The director of education is even more pronounced, all for the employment rate.
Once the employment rate declines, the Education Bureau cuts funding for schools.
At that time, teachers may lose their jobs and schools will close.
"The Education Department will only use this to assess the quality of schools."
Blame the Education Bureau?
The commissioners were also aggrieved.
Education bureaus in different regions also have to compete with each other to receive educational resource commissions through the "employment rate assessment".
If they only look at data, why can't they manage schools through data?
The words of one commissioner made Officer Wu's investigation deadlocked.
She advised Officer Wu that she was only eating official meals, and that it was just an upward and downward effect.
In front of the structural dilemma, the struggles of individuals seem insignificant.
"What's next?"
East Asian societies are similar.
Korean realist films always introspect in an almost masochistic form.
It also stung the nerves of Chinese audiences again and again.
On Douban, the score of "The Next Suxi" has risen all the way, which also shows the resonance of netizens.
These problems abound all around us.
Not long ago, a major automobile factory broke out that the intern was sexually assaulted.
In response to the fact that the victimized girl was not retained, NIO issued a statement.
It was not retained due to lack of staffing.
The statement of avoiding the important and ignoring the light has revealed the cruel truth of many large factories.
Many interns work as much or more than their full-time employees, but receive a meagre salary.
When the internship period expires, there is no establishment in the enterprise for them to become regular.
This is clearly the extraction of cheap labor.
On our screens, there is less and less real flesh and blood.
At present, domestic film and television still love to shoot and struggle, obsessed with the so-called civilian narrative.
You can start with a courtyard and come out of the life of the loft apartment, which is a brilliant soap bubble after all.
Easily blown up, and softly pierced by reality.
And "The Next Suxi" presents us with not only daring to shoot, but also shooting.
As a woman, director Zheng Julie did not use fierce resistance to tear social scars, nor did she write a revenge essay of female mutual help.
Instead, use a clever setting to find a solution to a seemingly unsolvable problem.
Officer Wu was actually a student in the dance studio with Su Hee.
During the investigation, her encounter at the police station also has similarities with So-hee.
Because the case was not let go, the boss was furious.
The boss swears words, shows power, constantly pressures, and staged another workplace bullying.
"Why do you have to fly chickens and dogs to find shit motives?"
Perhaps, Officer Wu is destined to be a sad idealist.
In the face of the boss's sharp question, why do you have to wade through such muddy waters.
Angry rhetorical questions can only eventually dissipate in the complicated file records.
Why isn't she "the next Sohee"?
"Children are dying one after another, but they only focus on the employment rate."
"Isn't it the blindness of all departments that caused this situation?"
It is not a single person who is forcing Suxi to die, but the entire social climate.
She has called for help more than once.
He was rescued from suicide for the first time, and on the way home, he asked his mother if he could leave his job.
The results were ignored.
She went to the head teacher again to confide.
But he was scolded for not understanding things and did things that harmed the collective.
"You're smashing the jobs of your juniors."
The head teacher also used his own analogy to constantly enlighten Suxi.
Any job is the same, good and bad, happy and sad.
The key is in one word, patience.
"Social animal work is not like that, and I am not the same."
How familiar it is.
So much so that when college students laughed at themselves and tried to take off their robes, these voices were endless.
It seems that only a willingness to endure hardships can be respected.
But in fact, people who suffer are even more despised.
This is a paradox of the times.
Everyone is stuck in the system, desperately running, for a promising bright future.
The times are fast, but the individual's ideals are still constipated.
The shouts and hesitations never seemed to be heard.
Only a sound of "hold on" was left to push Suxi to a corner.
Anyway, how Suxi chooses is her own fault.