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In ‘Possible Love’, the class divide splits open

Jeon Do-yeon in Possible Love.
Netflix
Jeon Do-yeon in Possible Love.

The film Possible Love recently hit Netflix, and it's worth your time. It's the latest from director Lee Chang-dong, whose previous film Burning was a critical hit. In the Korean film, two couples living very different lives come together – wealth and privilege meets working class struggle, as the film dissects how much a basic sense of self-worth is bound up with having a job. And the toxic, pernicious effect that losing a job has on pretty much everything.

Glen Weldon is a host of NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast. He reviews books, movies, comics and more for the NPR Arts Desk.
Aisha Harris is a critic and host of Pop Culture Happy Hour and author of Wannabe: Reckonings With the Pop Culture That Shapes Me.