Class warfare unfolds with hardly a raised voice in Lee Chang-dong’s quietly bruising drama Possible Love (B+), as two couples confront the aftermath of a factory strike, violent retaliation and layoffs in a tight-knit South Korean town. Those spared by the company’s capricious cuts are deemed “the living,” while those cast out become “the dead.” The luminous Jeon Do-yeon plays the resilient wife of a displaced welder (Sul Kyung-gu), whose stoic pride contrasts with her willingness to share their story with a film crew. An affluent documentarian (Cho Yeo-jeong) and her entrepreneur husband (Zo In-sung) take an interest in the struggling couple, exposing tensions that sympathy alone cannot bridge. Lee probes the power dynamics between those behind the camera and those before it, the comfortably insulated and the economically exiled. The material is far bleaker than the hopeful title suggests, yet remains absorbing across a substantial, largely earned runtime. Jeon is the standout, her character’s confidence, keen observations and bursts of courage suggesting possibilities beyond the class boundaries that flashbacks reveal have long defined her life. Her apparent capacity to transcend those limits makes their persistence all the more devastating. This potent cautionary tale exposes the presumptions that accompany privilege and the human cost of inequality.