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Employee No. 9
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Employee No. 9 is facing financial troubles, demotions and increasing humiliations at work. This sharp and timely portrayal of modern workplace culture and corporate greed interrogates the effects of surviving in a corrupt system.
With shades of Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice and Choi Jin-young’s Hunger, Employee No. 9 runs a psychological gauntlet of money, power, duty, and the daily struggle for survival.
No. 9 is in trouble. His son’s college tuition is coming due, his wife needs surgery after taking double shifts at a grocery store, the apartment building they bought as a nest egg is falling apart, and the company he helped build is trying to force him into early retirement. When he refuses, the mid-level IT man...
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