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'No Other Choice' Ending Explained: What Park Chan-wook Wants To Say About AI

Lyvie Scott

created: Dec. 25, 2025, 2 p.m. | updated: Jan. 5, 2026, 12:28 p.m.

As Park says, it’s tragic and ridiculous in equal measure, and it’s got a lot to say about humanity’s current entanglement with AI. When he decides to knock off Choi Seon-chul (Park Hee-soon), a high-ranking executive at Papyrus Paper and take his job, you feel more sympathy than disgust. “We don’t know if he’s training the AI or watching over the AI,” Park says. Park has been outspoken about the frightening evolution of generative AI, but No Other Choice may be his bleakest comment on it yet. “Many people are having discussions and concerns regarding AI,” Park says.

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