Whether or not anyone here who have been watching this korean movie and the title is, 'Cart'. 'Cart' is a 2014 South Korean film directed by Boo Ji-young. About employees of a retail supermarket who band together when the contract workers are laid off, it is both an ensemble drama and a social critique.
This 'Cart' storyline tells us about, Sun-hee (Yum Jung-Ah),
a veteran cashier and mother of two, works at a large retail
supermarket alongside Hye-mi (Moon
Jeong-Hee), a single mother. Both are friendly with
Soon-rye (Kim Young-Ae), a cleaning lady nearing retirement age, and all of them are temporary workers.
Sun-hee is a model employee who works diligently in the belief that once she gets promoted as a regular worker,
she'll be able to provide more for her children. However, their
corporate employer abruptly notifies them that all the temporary workers
will be laid off.
Faced with these wrongful dismissals, Sun-hee, Hye-mi, Soon-rye, and fellow female employees such as naive ajumma Ok-soon (Hwang Jeong-min) and twenty-something Mi-jin (Chun Woo-hee), resolve to go on strike.
They stage a series of increasingly impassioned protests against the
company's exploitative practices, which gains more strength when junior
manager Dong-joon (Kim Kang-woo), the only male representative of the store's labor union,
joins in.
The shy and passive Sun-hee, who finds herself thrust to the
demonstrations' front lines, discovers within herself untapped resources
of determination and resilience, which has an unexpected effect on her
relationship with her estranged high school-age son, Tae-young (Do Kyung-soo).
But as
the women realize the power they can wield by taking a mutual stand, the
company plays the workers against each other and Hye-mi, the leader of
the strike, caves to the company's pressure and gives up.
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