Attack the Gas Station! (1999) on Netflix
No Mark and three Seoul thugs rob a gas station they wrecked days earlier, but the manager has stashed the money. They seize the staff and sell gas to passing drivers.
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Plot summary
Robbing the same Seoul gas station twice is the plan of four young men with gripes against society. No Mark leads them, Mu Dae-po carries a heavy stick and a grudge against authority, Ddan Dda-ra lost his place in a rock band, and Paint once wanted to be an artist. The register holds nothing, because the manager has hidden the takings, so the four take him and the staff hostage and begin pumping gas for customers, pocketing the money. Bullies arrive to shake down one employee, police officers want free fuel, and a driver who asks for only a half tank refuses to pay for a full one.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Attack the Gas Station! (1999)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- After a screening at the 2000 Vancouver International Film Festival, director Kim Sang-jin said during the question and answer session that Attack the Gas Station inspired real-life copycats in South Korea.
- Attack the Gas Station came out during South Korea's "IMF crisis" of the mid-to-late 1990s, when many Korean car manufacturers laid off thousands of workers, and the film alludes to it, notably when Paint destroys framed slogans promoting a productive work force.
