Gisaengchung

Rating: 9/10 (15 May 2020)

On one side is the flooded hut, on the other is the birthday party. One side is the cold and hard gymnasium, the other is the luxurious and soft back garden. Money is an iron. It irons everything out. They rub against the net, live in the basement, and do whatever it takes to get a job. When you think they are miserable enough, the movie suddenly reverses: they are not the worst, and worse. If you are rich, there must be richer than you; if you are poor, there must be poorer than you. The gap between the rich and the poor is like countless walls, dividing people into 369 grades. This wall, regardless of the wind, the sun and the rain, stands still. Mr. and Mrs. park look silly, but they are still getting richer and richer. The Kim family is very clever, but they can't turn over. You think that if you find a good job and get a good salary, you will get rid of the poverty status. In fact, you are still 18000 miles away. You can wash off the sweat of your clothes, but you can't wash off the smell of the basement that has melted into your blood. You've climbed ten or twenty floors, and you may have just reached someone else's basement. They are worms, so they have a hard life; they are worms, so they can't kill anything.