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Here's a list of tons of leftist movies.
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Why didn't you like Decision to Leave? It's the most similar movie to No Other Choice from his filmography, so you might not like this one much either (unless you didn't like it because of the ending or you're that person on Twitter who hated Decision to Leave because of the main character cheating on his wife; that doesn't happen on this one)
It was a story about a failed marriage and then the woman that the guy fell for [REDACTED] for seemingly no reason. It was a completely pointless story. No social commentary, nothing interesting to say, and an ending that made no sense.
There are tens of millions of failed relationships in the world and I don't care to hear about any of them.
What about how the story about how I was betrayed by my now ex-GF using my Wii U gamepad as an improvised charcuterie board while gaming?
She asked "do you mind if I cheese this shit" and pointed at it, to which I assumed she meant Super Mario 3D World that was currently on the gamepad display and said yeah that's fine, obviously. Come back, an assortment of cheeses and crackers are atop it as she plays on the TV screen, somehow balancing the various gourmand delights and making a hundredth attempt on the final Champion's Road stage.
Still smells like cheese months later.
Still haven't beaten Champion's Road.
Sometimes they gotta do a little bit of elfcare.
She's not an elf. I would not date an elf, neither the tall nor short kind.
Watch No Other Choice then! It has the things you thought Decision to Leave was lacking.
I think Song Seo-Rae's arc makes sense. She's too troubled to keep going and doesn't want to continue on her path of destruction. She feels she can't belong and every time she's taken up agency to do anything, she screws everything up! Maybe it is very unsatisfying and wrong for there to be a character who can't fit in this world, but I didn't mind it too much. Maybe a different ending could've made the movie a lot better than it already is, though.
I agree that it doesn't have a huge amount to say beyond its own confines; it's fundamentally just a really tightly paced and well executed star crossed lovers story. I absolutely adore it for how it uses some sprinkles of surrealism, the idiosyncratic cuts with similar compositions across different contexts, and the setups and payoffs.