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NYFF Review: Park Chan-wook's Wicked Good 'No Other Choice'
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Paper! What’s it good for? An excellent question to ask as you read this review on your computer and/or phone screens. Is it an antiquated connection to Nature, to tactility? Or is it the first spark that burned down all the world’s forests; the original sin domino that damned humanity to eventual climate catastrophe and A.I. overlord oblivion? And why not both? That’s just one of the million-dollar questions that bob delicately on by in the background of Park Chan-wook’s latest maniacal triumph, the darkly comic capitalism satire No Other Choice , which sees the forest for the trees and diagnoses us all chainsaws.
But first, some history. Twenty-five years ago, early on in both of
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