The Host (2006)
(Gue Mool)
Country: KOR/JAP
Technical: col 120m
Director: Bong Joon-ho
Cast: Song Kang-ho, Byun Hee-bong, Park Hae-il, Bae Doo-na
Synopsis:
Poisonous chemicals are maliciously dumped into the Han river by an American scientist and years later a mutant amphibian wreaks a terrible revenge on the city dwellers.
Review:
Focusing on one fractured family and how it pulls together against the external threat, this phenomenally successful monster movie invites allegorical readings in a way in which Brotherhood did not, though it shares that film's preoccupation with family. Shards of black humour cut through the prevailing B movie thrills and spills, as does the fish's lumbering gait, leavening the darker potential of the environmental subtext and the emotional operatics of the subplot.
(Gue Mool)
Country: KOR/JAP
Technical: col 120m
Director: Bong Joon-ho
Cast: Song Kang-ho, Byun Hee-bong, Park Hae-il, Bae Doo-na
Synopsis:
Poisonous chemicals are maliciously dumped into the Han river by an American scientist and years later a mutant amphibian wreaks a terrible revenge on the city dwellers.
Review:
Focusing on one fractured family and how it pulls together against the external threat, this phenomenally successful monster movie invites allegorical readings in a way in which Brotherhood did not, though it shares that film's preoccupation with family. Shards of black humour cut through the prevailing B movie thrills and spills, as does the fish's lumbering gait, leavening the darker potential of the environmental subtext and the emotional operatics of the subplot.
(Gue Mool)
Country: KOR/JAP
Technical: col 120m
Director: Bong Joon-ho
Cast: Song Kang-ho, Byun Hee-bong, Park Hae-il, Bae Doo-na
Synopsis:
Poisonous chemicals are maliciously dumped into the Han river by an American scientist and years later a mutant amphibian wreaks a terrible revenge on the city dwellers.
Review:
Focusing on one fractured family and how it pulls together against the external threat, this phenomenally successful monster movie invites allegorical readings in a way in which Brotherhood did not, though it shares that film's preoccupation with family. Shards of black humour cut through the prevailing B movie thrills and spills, as does the fish's lumbering gait, leavening the darker potential of the environmental subtext and the emotional operatics of the subplot.