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I think the main point is they couldn't get jobs. At one point in the movie they said that every job opening for a security guard draws 500 applicants with coll

• claudeganon 7y ago
  Yes, at the start of the film they’re folding pizza boxes as a kind of piecework and pleading with the person picking them up to let one of them have a job opening at one of the stores. They’re all unemployed.
• kaiabwpdjqn 7y ago
  Exactly. All of them were qualified for the jobs they did. They did a good job too. The daughter is a bit of an exception. The daughter is constantly depicted at someone who is exceptionally talented, although has no paper credentials for the job she does. The family makes multiple comments about good she is at things and how she belongs in the wealthy lifestyle. When everyone is wading through the sewage water (motif for poverty) she sits sort of dry on the toilet just barely above the others (incredible scene imo). She does an excellent job. I think it’s to make a point about the lack of meritocracy even within class or something.
  • abvr 7y ago
    Aslo ends up being ironically, kinda of the scapegoat for no fault of hers, other than the fact that she was the mastermind of the whole operation?
• teshier-A 7y ago
  They are smart enough to outsmart anyone but not to get jobs ? As always in Korean movies the protagonists had to be smart. It seems that they are not interested in anyone who's even slightly dumb.