The strike that inspired 'Possible Love' — and 'Squid Game'
Key takeaways
Quick summary- 1Ho-seok (played by Sul Kyung-gu), the laid-off welder at the center of Lee Chang-dong's Silver Lion winner "Possible Love," is a shell of the man he used to be.
- 2Stoic but warm, he used to have his co-workers at SP Heavy Industries over for drinks in his yard, treating them like b
Ho-seok (played by Sul Kyung-gu), the laid-off welder at the center of Lee Chang-dong's Silver Lion winner "Possible Love," is a shell of the man he used to be. Stoic but warm, he used to have his co-workers at SP Heavy Industries over for drinks in his yard, treating them like brothers. Two years after losing his job, he barely speaks and drinks too much. He can't get through a counseling session for fired workers without bolting from the room. His wife, Mi-ok (Jeon Do-yeon), meets a documentar
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