This report captures director Bong Joon-ho’s insights on his subversive thriller, detailing his “perverse” casting of icons Kim Hye-ja and Won Bin against their established types. Bong discusses his meticulous control over “feminine” landscapes and storyboards, ultimately emphasizing how the primal maternal instinct can transform a mother into a monster in her desperate quest to protect. [Read More]
Event tag: BFI Bong Joon-ho season 2009
Remembering Murder: from “Memories of Murder” to “Mother”
Colette Balmain examines Bong Joon-ho’s Mother as a thematic evolution of Memories of Murder, shifting from a procedural to an intimate, arguably incestuous, study of devotion. By portraying the mother’s desperate quest for her son’s innocence against a corrupt, commodity-driven community, the film serves as a searing allegory for modern South Korea and its buried historical traumas. [Read More]
Bong Joon-ho film season at the BFI
The British Film Institute (BFI) has announced that it will be screening a Bong Joon-ho Film Season at the National Film Theatre (NFT), London, in early November 2009. The Season will feature all of his previous films and a special screening of his new film ‘Mother’, followed by an in-person Question & Answer session with … [Read More]