LOS ANGELES, Dec. 22 (UPI) -- Director Park Chan-wook and star Lee Byung-hun said the killer Lee plays in No Other Choice, in theaters Thursday, doesn't realize his victims are his own counterparts.
Lee plays Man-su, a supervisor laid off from a paper factory. When a position opens at another paper company, Man-su decides to murder the other candidates.
In a recent Zoom interview with UPI, Lee, 55, said that the targets of Man-su's crime are simply versions of himself. They are all men laid off from previous jobs, struggling to get by.
"It's almost as if Man-su is looking at himself in a mirror," Lee said through a translator. "It really is. In the end, like he is eliminating himself."
Park, who adapted Donald Westlake's novel The Ax with Lee Kyoung-mi, Jahye Lee and Don McKellar, said he even added a scene to show Man-su's sympathy towards his victims.
