Bong Joon-ho

Borrowing and Political Message in The Host Released in July 2006, Bong Joon-ho’s The Host garnered both widespread popularity as the highest grossing South Korean film ever released in Korea. It was also screening at the Cannes, New York, and Toronto film festivals and seen by more than a quarter of the Korean population. The Host embodies political messages both political conditions inside Korea and its relationship with United States. Bong shows an ambivalent relationship between South Korea and United

In the film Memories of Murder, director Bong Joon-ho utilizes a few different generic tropes rather than just staying in one specific genre. To me, the two most obvious genres that he borrows from in this film are crime and drama, but it has elements of comedy as well. The most prevalent genre in my opinion is the crime genre. The story revolves around detectives, investigating a serial killer who rapes and murders women. The entire plotline is clearly within the genre of crime, and I would say

Director Bong Joon-ho’s post-apocalyptic film, Snowpiercer (2013), follows the capitalistic microcosm of a super train that houses the last vestiges of humanity. Curtis, the film’s protagonist, leads a group of ragtag revolutionists against the carefully perfected balance of the train in hopes of obtaining an egalitarian system. As the group forces their way from the tail of the train to the engine room, they’re greeted with new surprises with each new train car they pass through. On their quest

Bong Joon-ho’s 2013 science fiction film, Snowpiercer, based in a graphic novel of the same name, offers a look into a frozen future where the last of mankind lives on an evermoving locomotive. It’s a contemporary film focused around the theme of classism in society, driven by metaphors for where we are and where we are going. With an almost mashup of Orwell meeting the 99%, the story focuses on the inhabitants of the suppressed population of the train's tail section, led by Chris Evans' Curtis,

Why the isn't the case solved in memories of murder The movie memories of murder takes a unique take on a mystery movie where the case is never solved even though it could have been easily solved due to a plot point in the story. There are some other reasons behind the decision to not solve the case one of them being that this movie was based off a true ,story korea's first serial killer witch was made not to long after the original case. this case was never solved so it's only fair that the movie

Snowpiercer is making a stop on the small screen. The Hollywood Reporter has announced that a TV adaptation of the cult 2013 Korean dystopian film is being developed by Marty Adelstein's Tomorrow Studios. The movie, which was directed by Korean auteur Bong Joon Ho, featured an ensemble cast lead by Chris Evans, Tilda Swanton, and Jaime Bell. Based on the French graphic novel Le Transperceneige by Jacques Lob and Jean-Marc Rochette, the story is set in a post-apocalyptic future that has seen the Earth reduced

loyalty of a dog, who will be sent to the 26 Mirando Corporation locations to be raised and grown. A "winner" would be declared in 2017. In 2017, on a remote South Korean homestead, 14-year-old Mija (Ahn Seo-hyun) lives with her grandfather Hee-bong (Byun Hee-bong) and one of the superpigs, named Okja. Okja and Mija have formed a special bond and spend nearly every waking moment together. One morning, a number of people emerge on the top of her quiet, surreptitious mountainous abode. The first is washed-up

A single scene in a feature film may contain multiple meanings, as it was intended by its creator. Finding these extra meanings can be an entertaining and mind-developing experience. In a movie "Snowpiercer" (2013), by a Korean director Joon-ho Bong, the scene at the end of leaving the train additionally contains the idea of reconnection of a chosen elite with the rest of the population. The train, combined with its passengers and crew, symbolizes the elite part of the population of the Earth. It

In Snowpiercer fish are symbolic of life. Both the fish and the people are stuck on the train, the fish cannot leave the aquarium as the people on the train are supposed to stay in their designated cars. They both eat the same food that is designated to them day after day, for just enough nutrition to live. As well as both the humans and the fish are closely monitored to ensure there is no overgrowth in population. Curtis and the rest of the people included in the revolution make it far up the train

“Would you wear a shoe on your head?” (Joon-Ho) This is the question proposed by the character Mason early in director Bong Joon-Ho’s 2011 film Snowpiercer, a film about the improvised survivors among the remnants of humanity and their attempt to take down the captain, aboard the ark like train they all inhabit that travels the frozen world left after mans failed attempt to stop global warming. At face value the film might seem like nothing more than an entertaining Si-Fi action movie with a bad