Lee Chang Dong ponders the ethics of the camera

<figure> <img alt="a man and a woman at a table outside in the dark" data-caption="" data-portal-copyright="NYFF" data-has-syndication-rights="1" src="https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/10/Possible-Love_NYFF64_03.jpeg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0,0,100,100" /> <figcaption> </figcaption> </figure> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">Lee Chang Dong's seventh feature film, <em>Possible Love,</em> is inspired by true events from 2009, when a Korean conglomerate fired a third of its staff - 2,600 employees - after which many died by suicide. <em>Possible Love</em> is the latest in a long line of Lee movies that engage with themes of class or labor or religion or <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=9zug0akAAAAJ&amp;hl=ko">compressed modernity</a>, that uniquely Korean affliction, without feeling didactic.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">A different kind of movie would have captured the heat of that labor struggle. <em>Possible Love</em> picks up with the characters in the aftermath, a murkier time that defies easy understanding. The film opens with an epigraph: "Thou shall not covet." What foll …</p> <p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/1017888/possible-love-lee-chang-dong-director-interview">Read the full story at The Verge.</a></p>