Douban 7.9, Pei Douna's new film pokes through the survival crisis of social animals

Before there is, take off Kong Yiji's robe.

After there is, the big factory 35+ career crisis.

At a time when employment is becoming more and more difficult, having a satisfying and stable job has become a real common problem between people across ages, genders, occupations, and people.

The anxiety in the short video contrasts sharply with the smiling faces in the media. Which is closer to the truth?

A movie gives a compromise answer. This is a new Korean film, with a Douban score of 7.9, starring the actress Bae Doona. It borrows a Korean story to poke through the entire East Asian social animal survival crisis.

It is "The Next So-hee".

【1】

The heroine, So-hee, is a Korean girl from an ordinary background. Like many people, she loved to dance since she was a child, and she had light in her eyes. It is a very fresh and flexible life.

But she didn't realize that the family of origin would bring many limitations. Because of poverty, she could not realize her dream of dancing. Because of poverty, I chose vocational schools with cheap tuition.

Near graduation, the teacher recommended her to intern with a communication company and work as a telephone customer service.

The nightmare began.

In people's traditional impression, the responsibility of customer service is to solve problems for users. The staff must be patient, listening, and must not have a temper.

Suxi could do this, but she did not expect that the company did not want to solve the problem for customers at all, but used logical sophistry and deception to recommend customers to buy new service packages.

The original problem needs to be solved by purchasing a new service, otherwise it will be delayed and never solved. This "anti-human customer service principle" subverts Suxi's three views.

She couldn't figure out what the meaning of this deceptive work was. She also has to deal with deliberately difficult clients, as well as harassing phone calls from some men.

The cruel thing is that leaders don't take this into account at all, just look at performance and data. The kind Suxi is obviously not suitable for this job, and he is reprimanded by the leader every day for his performance at the bottom.

Reprimanding and making things difficult are not new to Suxi. Because, she grew up in "adverse obedience" since she was a child.

If you don't have money to learn to dance, just study hard. If you don't have money to go to college, you can go to a vocational school. No opportunity and no resources, as a telephone customer service, you can also accept it.

Many times, it's not that she doesn't fight for it, it's that she doesn't have a choice at all. This powerlessness and oppression continued throughout the first half of her life.

In the face of such a bad job, Suxi paralyzes himself again and resigns himself. She closes the sensory channel, blocks the moral ruler, and becomes a working machine. Begin to lure customers to achieve their performance metrics without emotion.

Suxi once became a performance champion, but the company was afraid that the intern would leave after a month or two, so it deliberately withheld her performance.

So-hee completely collapsed.

In order to be a good assembly line worker, she has sacrificed her self-respect, morality, character, and bottom line, but she has been shackled in exchange. The company must not only lock her firmly to the pillar of shame, but also PUA employees, a job that some people want to do, no worse than you.

What is extremely frightening to think about is that in this structure, people at every level of every link have become numb to the point of habit. It is even necessary to rely on further numbing involution to keep one-acre and three-point land from one.

In the cold garden, empathy is a luxury.

【2】

In "Dark Glory", the big devil Park Yeon-jin only said one truth.

"From the moment you are born, life is already like hell."

If Wen Dongen's mother could stand up to help her solve the bullying problem at that time, there would be no revenge sacrifice song later.

To some extent, So-hee, like Moon Don-eun, is a victim of his native family. The difference is that Moon Dong-eun's revenge is idealistic, while So-hee's self-killing is realism.

Yes, Suhee couldn't bear it and ended his life.

In the second half of the film, switch to the perspective of a policewoman and try to unravel the truth of Sohee's departure. But the closer she got to the truth, the more depressed her heart became. Because there are too many unaware perpetrators.

They have all been exploited by structural oppression, because resistance is ineffective, and they have transformed themselves into new oppressors and continue to attack young people. Their rhetoric is surprisingly consistent:

"Pretentious."

"That's how I came over, why can't she?"

"Society is like this, what can I do."

The policewoman tried to ask So-hee's father why he didn't persuade his daughter to leave her job early. My father would just say, "Ah, I don't know, if only I had known..."

The policewoman targeted the school, and the teacher excused herself: "Signing a contract with this kind of company is also to ensure the employment rate, and there are so many students who cannot find jobs." ”

You see, all in the black and white can be reversed, the thief shouts to catch the thief. Or, they already feel from the bottom of their hearts, from the roots of their brains, that they are right and have been thoroughly brainwashed.

Because no one can shake the huge operating machine called the social structure. Therefore, in order not to hurt yourself, you can only let the machine continue to run.

Their emergency response is to glorify, glorify, and celebrate suffering.

"Suxi works overtime because she herself is too poor and wants to save money, why do she blame the company?"

"Suxi's resignation and suicide are all her own mentality, it is her own problem."

"She still can't endure the hardships, who is wronged?"

【3】

In the past, Korean serious movies would always find a specific person responsible and bear all the blame. By punishing those responsible, provide the audience with an emotional vent, and finally cool down.

But in "The Next Sohee", there is no specific perpetrator of the abuser, because it tells a truer and deeper truth. In a deformed social structure, punishing one or two social animals will not change anything. If you have to ask, who is the culprit for the persecution of Suxi.

Parents? School? Firm?

Neither.

This is the most desperate part of the film. Therefore, the director designed the link where the female police chased the murderer. To roar and question, to be in charge of every link in the structure.

Growling and questioning may not lead to results. But if the truth is not told, there will be the next Suhee. In a way, the film gives a red card warning to all East Asian social animals.