After Bong, Joon-Ho’s “Parasite” took home four film Academy Awards (Best Image, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay and Best International Feature Film) in 2020, becoming the first movie not English to get the best image, Director Bong. The answer came in the year 2022, when he was announced that he was adapting the then-forthcoming published novel “Mickey 7”, SCI-Fi Black Comedy as a man named Mickey Barness, who makes him become “beneficial” or a man who dies again, and again, again, and again. and againIn the line of work – with a copy of young people, created every day with his memories, intact.
The result is what I firmly believe is Director Bong’s best English movieAnd a scattering, your face is charged with egotistical politicians and the type of capitalism will be our death. “Mickey 17” is as subtle as a sleigh hammer but Perfectly according to all his work so farUntil the printing of people (fortunately) does not exist, and we have not tried to colonize another planet at the demand of a cultural political figure, located at great faith systems and cult -like tracking (subsequent tracking (subsequent tracking (However ugh), Director Bong’s latest games, both as satire and warning on what will happen if we are not cautious. He is no stranger Walking tonal high surfaceWith the moments of existential horror, next to the villain alongside the camp, and he and his members knew that the mixture was essential for the efficiency of the film.
I was honored and the privilege of speaking to director Bong (along with long -time interpreter and filmmaker/dialect coach Sharon Choi), as well as stars Toni Collette and Naomi Ackie about what Mickey 17 needs to say about the current state of society and what we can all learn from it. Below are fragments of these interviews, but complete discussions (as well as my conversation with Steven Yeun) are in the mood in today’s episode /Film Daily Podcast.
Bong joon-ho know that people will see themselves in Mickey Barnes
Fantasy writer Terry Pratchet once wrote that evil begins when you start treating people like objects. Do you agree? And is it the Mickey 17 core?
Director Bong: This is such a perfect quote from this film. I wish I had known it faster when I wrote it, because it really has to do with the underlying topics and the questions this movie studied. The concept of human printing, this is the main element of the film, and this quote is exactly what people’s printing is.
Because people are not intended to print. It is a combination of words that should not really be. And this setting in itself reflects the tragedy and funnyness and a kind of inhumanity. And if you are thinking of Robert Pattinson in this situation, you even have a pity. If you look at Mickey, he is too nice for his good, always taking a shorter end of the stick. And it really emphasizes Mickey’s unsuccessful dislike.
I think people often feel profitable even without the concept of people’s printing, and it really emphasizes how it can feel like a hostile society. Do you see that this story reflects the current landscape that many of us live in?
Director Bong: In Korea, a new employee died in the workplace recently, who unfortunately died. And it happens all over the world. And even more sad is that when, say, John dies during extreme work, you have Freddie entered to replace him. And then, if Freddy dies, you have Tom to replace him. So the work remains the same. It’s just people, a person constantly changes and replaces the predecessor. And it’s pretty terrible and also sad. In the movie you see Mickey taking it all. He is one person who takes on all these missions and dies constantly. And I think this setup really reflects our current reality, just shows it more extreme because it is one person who processes it all, and he dies and is printed, and it actually reduces the guilt of his community because they can just be: “Oh, it’s your job to die. We just print.”
We can survive bad political leadership
What lessons do you hope for an American audience to learn by watching the characters living under its ruler, such as Marshall?
Director Bong: I feel clear your question’s intentions with Marshall’s character played by Mark Ruffalo. ((laugh) If you ask us if it is a specific satire? I think Mark and I will find it hard to say, “No, absolutely”. ((laugh), But even in Korea recently had a political shock and Not so good things happenedYes. And in the modern age, we have all gone through bad leaders and political suffering. And I somehow wanted it to be mixed in this character.
“Mickey 17” is obviously the story of Mickey Barnes, but it is also in society that is designed for a cult of fascist, Egomaniacal, blower whims. You both play women who choose very different ways to exist in this type of administration. What lessons do you hope for the audience from their heroes to learn that they might fit into their lives if they were … hypothetically ever perhaps exists by administering a cult -like fascist, Egomaniacal, in itself?
Naomi Ackie: Oho. A good question.
Toni Collette: See, my hero is really interesting because I’m married to a blower. ((laugh) But by the end, I think she learns that everyone has the same experience as human and that you can’t avoid hard things. But in fact she is so narcissistic, I don’t think she would actually change the way she is! ((laugh) But in the end, I think that the take -off is that everyone matters and hopefully we can be aware enough to know that we have personal power because it is not naturally groomed in society. It is not – people are not told that they really care for this thing, but it is in each of us.
Ackie: I think from (my hero) nash, it’s just like you are fighting for one person, you are fighting for many people. I think there is something about: “(or is) someone who needs it? Help him” because it could come to something else. I don’t think Nash was intentional. The end result is not where she started. She didn’t try – I don’t want to give anything back. But her unwavering love for a man who is undervalued changed something. I think this is really important.
“Mickey 17” is now in theaters.
