I have never seen such a heart-wrenching Korean movie - "The Next Sohee"
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Suhee is eighteen years old this year. Good youth, the little girl has beautiful eyebrows, good personality, and dances very well.
She has a girlfriend Shanji who dropped out of school halfway, and usually makes some money by live broadcasting. The content is to visit the store and eat broadcasts and the like, and the two often meet to eat, drink and play together.
Once when Shan Ji was live streaming a visit to the store, the other two uncles in the store began to make a father's speech in an undisguised voice: "Now cats and dogs have started to live broadcast." ”
Zenji pretended not to hear and looked down at fiddling with her phone. But Suxi immediately stood up and began to fight back, crashing into the two men while talking back.
Really a beautiful girl, brave, independent and just, but also emotional.
Seeing that graduation is approaching, Suxi only needs to complete the internship again, and everything is fine. One day, the head teacher rushed into the classroom with excitement, even eyebrows, shouting Suhee's name and waving a document in his hand. So, Suxi proudly raised his hand in the envious eyes of the other students in the class, proudly walked out of the classroom, and sat in front of the class teacher: "We Suxi, but it's really hard work." ”
This tone, this look, as if Suxi has reached the peak of his life. In fact, this is just an outsourcing job.
The head teacher is still saying that "this is not an ordinary outsourcing", and he has made inhuman efforts to get to this point.
So, Suhee, who loves to dance in a women's group, was also full of expectations, put on formal work clothes to go to the interview, and successfully passed. On the afternoon of the day he got the news, Suxi seemed to have a premonition that his free youth had quietly left.
The next day, Suxi went to the company in his overalls. When she got there, she found that all the girls about her age were like robots, guarding the computer screens and telephone receivers at their workstations, talking about words that had been repeated hundreds of thousands of times, solving and selling packages.
Another girl gave her a demonstration. I originally thought that it was just a simple process, but I didn't expect that there was a rapid insult on the other end of the phone. But the job does not allow the presence of self-esteem and counterattacks. The girl just paused for two seconds, and then quickly ended the call with her words.
The scene is already obvious, this job is actually equivalent to telephone customer service, the core purpose is to let customers not cancel the contract, or even order a higher cost package. Therefore, the department where Suxi is located is not called the customer service department, but the "defense department". These young girls, who have not yet stepped out of school, act as shields for capitalists, sandwiched between capitalists and angry consumers.
And this is the "hard-working" work that the head teacher is proud of.
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In this job, all the good qualities in Suxi, such as kindness, bravery, independence, and heavy feelings, have been destroyed. She was only asked to become a person who was willing to endure hardships and endure hardships.
Ah, what a familiar phrase, maybe the communication company is not just a company, it is a cannibalistic metaphor for the whole society.
Suxi, who has just entered the workplace and retains his conscience and innocence, is destined to be unable to do this job. After all, most consumers, many times, just want to cancel the contract and unsubscribe, and there are no outrageous requirements.
Therefore, the group leader who seemed to be kind said to Suxi: "You can't do it for long." ”
But it won't take long to do it, it's actually the team leader. One morning, he was found committing suicide by burning charcoal in his car.
What he wants to achieve with death is, on the one hand, permanent liberation and ease, and on the other hand, exposure and accusation.
Here, the intern signs a yin-yang contract.
Although on the surface, their salary is composed of base salary and performance commission. But there are basic criteria for performance. If you can't meet this standard, you can only get a basic salary for an internship. Any so-called guarantee and care is just an empty shelf.
Even if you roll up the king and work hard to achieve outstanding results, you will still be dumbfounded when it comes to payday——
In order to ensure that interns quit their jobs after not working for two months, their performance pay for the month needs to be paid after two months. Of course, the high-sounding rhetoric is this, in fact, many of the company's operations are profitably achieved by squeezing these interns.
And whether it's lying flat or rolling king, it's all data here. The first thing to do when I go to work every morning is to hold the company's criticism meeting first, and then hold the group's criticism meeting.
Facing the classic PUA phrases of the leader on the other end of the screen, such as "your group is at the bottom", "your group is waste", "your group will be disbanded next month";
Both the team leader and the intern are like slaves who do wrong things with their heads down, without the slightest glory of laborers.
As soon as the scolding is over, the team leader will plaster everyone's performance on the wall and quantify it with numbers. Then talk to the corresponding lagging employees one by one. Each team member fails to cope during the call, and the team leader needs to call over to visit and reassure him.
Once, Suxi worked overtime in the company until eight or nine o'clock in the evening, and her friend sent her a message to urge her when she was waiting for her to eat, and when she was anxious and did not control it, she shot back loudly at the other end of the screen, obviously to pester and harass customers.
The team leader quickly asked Suxi to hand over to him to deal with, but he didn't expect that after a few minutes, he also scolded loudly to the other side. It was the night before he was found dead.
After the suicide of the group leader, the interns in the group were forced not to attend his funeral.
And his accusations in black and white were also ignored.
Even in exchange for death, it was nothing more than a document characterized as "dereliction of duty suicide". The bones of the old team leader were not even cool, and the new team leader took up his post in a rage. On the one hand, the employees in the group were required to sign a confidentiality letter about the cause of the death of the old team leader, and on the other hand, they began to publish PUA words to urge the employees to hurry up.
Ignoring the company's rules, Suxi went to attend the funeral of the old team leader, and was the last to sign a confidentiality agreement after returning.
After signing her, she was like changing a person, becoming a working machine with no personality, no thoughts and no feelings, and became the performance champion in the group. However, it wasn't until the day of the payroll that she finally realized that all PUAs were just a huge scam. What commission, what performance, are used to fool interns.
Even the new team leader brazenly said, "You should have deposited a sum of money in the bank."
Unable to negotiate salary, Suxi was insulted in public by the team leader: "Poor and sour, are you so short of money?"
Then, she started hitting the new team leader.
She was then placed on leave without pay for three days. Then, when she was found, she died barefoot in the lake in snowy weather.
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So-hee is not that standard good boy. The family conditions are not very good, there are no other electronic devices except mobile phones, and there are almost no cosmetics; Studying is not very good, studying at a vocational school, there are few opportunities to spend a good time in college.
But she is truly beautiful.
When she danced, she was so happy, free and confident, so strong and brave when she stood up for her friends, and she was the only one in the company who was willing to take risks to attend the funeral of the former team leader, and when she realized the injustice, she fiercely resisted...
Beyond those pre-written numbers and rules, So-hee is a girl with a vivid and beautiful personality. If you can become friends with her, you must be very happy and at ease. But it was such a girl who died barefoot in the cold lake water of winter.
The most intentional part of "The Next So-hee" is that after Suhee's death, it sets up the process of female policeman Youjin investigating the case.
How could such a criminal case fall on a female policeman who usually sits in an office?
Naturally, the police department thinks that this is just an ordinary suicide case, and it would be good for You Zhen to simply investigate and close the case. But Youzhen unexpectedly investigated step by step, and in the end it was like a punch on cotton.
Who is responsible for Suhee's suicide?
Parents' the?
Suhee once whispered to his parents one night after work at nine o'clock that he wanted to quit. But they just pretended not to hear and let her work hard and not let the company down. The death of her only daughter has sent this already not wealthy family into hell again, and it seems that it will not help to blame them.
Company's?
The company's words and skills are even more well-trained and methodical, and the yin and yang strange kicks the ball and other means are available.
"Suxi works overtime voluntarily, but her own ability to withstand pressure is too poor."
"If Suxi really feels difficult, he can resign himself."
"The company is the victim, and the school actually threw us students with such serious problems."
When You Zhen presented evidence of the company's yin-yang contract and the intern's departure after 8 o'clock, the other party changed his tone: even so, it is not the turn of the police to take care of it, this is a matter for the labor bureau.
Then the school always has a responsibility, sending students to such a company, there must be some collusion between the school and the enterprise.
But the head teacher looked innocent: the school also had to act according to the face of the company, and even this job was still asked for by him.
Because the Education Bureau allocates education subsidies according to the employment rate of each school, it is necessary funds for the survival of the school. Therefore, as long as the employment rate goes up and students do not resign from internships, schools and teachers can keep their jobs, as for the employment environment, who cares?
What about the Education Bureau, the Education Bureau can't get rid of it.
It's just that when Youzhen accused the other party, the education commissioner just said expressionlessly:
The Education Bureau evaluates schools through the employment rate, and if it is not managed, many schools will simply close, and the above is only focusing on the data.
"The Next So-hee" is a movie with no ending.
In the face of Youzhen's investigation, those culprits all feel that they are not responsible, but are only acting in accordance with the rules and regulations, and even have the intention that they are victims. Only those kind people, such as Sohee's friends and parents, such as Sun-hee, who can't extricate themselves from the pain, desperately blame themselves, and can't get out, thinking that they killed So-hee.
After watching the movie, many people feel that it is redundant to set the perspective of the policewoman, in fact, the setting of double emphasis points is very necessary.
While the latter paragraph provides no new information about suicides, it portrays a seemingly individual death as a systemic disease.
At the same time, we can clearly see from the movie that the female policewoman Youzhen also suffered from workplace PUA.
This systematic violence against women is not limited to age, occupation, or environment, but is pervasive in oppression and exploitation.
"The Next Sohee" depicts an overwhelming and deformed society, and also captures the real living conditions of young Koreans.
In this society, regardless of gender, age, and position, it becomes data on the screen. And there is also a hierarchy in this distorted system, and the bottom is undoubtedly more severely oppressed. This kind of real copying of reality also caused huge discussions after the film was introduced into China.
And won the Douban word-of-mouth hit list for 5 consecutive weeks.
It is worth mentioning that there are four snowy episodes in the movie.
The first time is when young So-hee and Sun-hee frolic in the first snow and run towards their seemingly hot youth;
The second time was when Sohee sat in the back row of the dance studio and watched everyone dance after being insulted by the client;
The third time was when So-hee slit his wrists in the snow after getting drunk;
The fourth time was the day she walked to the lake.
Step by step, Suxi went from hope to despair, her struggle, her efforts, her freshness, and finally she could only be buried by the snow.
Who cares, a few hours before she died, she was drinking alone, and the sunlight outside the door leaked a ray of light on her bare feet in slippers.
Suxi looked down, but this only warmth still failed to keep her.
As some netizens commented: She used her death to tear off a fig leaf in South Korea, making South Korea lose face.
Text/Pipi Film Editorial Department: Tong Yunxi
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