Standing on the Edge of Death

Unlike trilogy on torndown neighborhoods The Sangkye dong Olympics Haengdangdong People and Another World We Are Making Standing on the Edge of Death calmly describes how urban poverty was formed how they live and why more than 20 of them committed suicide at once in 1990 In this film the director explains that people who moved from poor countryside formed urban slum and because they did not have formal education or asset they worked as day laborers Residence was one particular problem they faced as they lost their main dwelling area due to redevelopment They start their day at dawn and work till night However these hardworking people do not receive any recognition from the society