HELPLESS (개그맨)

🎭 "HELPLESS" (개그맨) is a black comedy K-film about a “helpless” man taking his one-shot at success in the dog-eat-dog cyberworld of livestreamers.


🎬 Main trailer (English subs):

The poster copy below reads: One shot (in) life. Shoot for the top, no matter what. So what’s in this title? A chewy shot at success.

You may have tasted the chewy, gooey goodness of spicy tteokbokki. When you combine that sticky stretch of rice cakes (tteok) with the Korean character for “increase” (sang), you get the neologism tteok-sang (떡상). Meaning a sharp rise, this word was first used to describe a sudden and huge upsurge in cryptocurrency or stocks. Tteok-sang is used in this film to depict a sudden rise to the top with one viral video. How will you get there? With han-bang (한방), which means one shot, one blow. They say life is han-bang (인생은 한방). It just takes that one big lucky break to be successful. So who can blame you for aiming for han-bang (한방을 노리다), biding your time and preying on and praying for that one big break? But dreamers, beware. Han-bang can be that one fatal blow that ends you (한방에 가다). And the flip side of tteok-sang is tteok-rak (떡락), a sharp fall or demise.