This two and a half hour character study (and South Korea's entry for the Oscars) is definitely not for everyone, but for those open to a slow-burn (pun intended) it offers a lot. A college graduate literary writer lives off temp jobs until he one days runs into a childhood friend who is trying her best to make a living as well. The two quickly bond but after she has gone on a soul-searching trip to Africa returns with a new friend, the similarly young but rich Ben (The Walking Dead's Steven Yeun in an all-Korean role that he fills in perfectly). Intimidated at every corner of their interactions by Ben's social-economic supremacy, the cropped-up frustrations grow deeper and deeper. When Ben exposes a secret of his own, the young writer's quest to find out the truth eats him alive as the movie dares you to shine light on every interaction before and ask yourself what everyone
really meant. And the more you're willing to think about it, the more "oh shyt" relevations you will have.