2006 ‘괴물’ Directed by Bong Joon-ho
Following the dumping of gallons of toxic waste in the river, a giant mutated squid-like appears and begins attacking the populace. Gang-du's daughter Hyun-seo is snatched up by the creature; with his family to assist him, he sets off to find her.
Song Kang-ho Byun Hee-bong Park Hae-il Bae Doo-na Ko Asung Oh Dal-su Lee Jae-eung Lee Dong-ho Yoon Je-moon Yim Pil-sung Kim Roi-ha Koh Soo-hee Kim Hak-sun Scott Wilson Brian Rhee Paul Lazar David Anselmo Baek Do-bin Martin Lord Cayce Choi Dae-sung Choi Doo-yeong Choi Jae-Sup Jung Seo-yoon Philip Hersh Jeong In-gi Jeong Hyeong-Ho Ji Ha-geon Jung Kang-hee Kim Bi-bi Show All…
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(No explicit spoilers, but spoiler-sensitive readers should watch the movie first and come back later.)
A monstrous crisis in South Korean national identity.
On the surface, The Host looks a lot like any other monster movie. It showcases an evil beast hell-bent on the destruction of the local population. And yet, even here director Joon-ho Bong refuses the conventions of the genre he’s working within. He shows us the monster right from the start (almost in the first scene) and almost always in broad daylight rather than hiding the special effects in dark nighttime shots. Rather than glorifying the monster’s destruction (the disaster porn model) or reveling in the fear it creates (the horror model), he pitches the film at…
All of Bong Joon-ho’s movies are about monsters, some more literally than others. In “Memories of Murder,” the monster is the boogeyman, ripped from the headlines and hiding in the darkness. In “Snowpiercer,” the monster is the abstract force of capitalism, rotting us from the inside out as we eat each other to survive and maintain some semblance of order at the end of the world. And in “The Host,” the wild 2006 genre mash-up that firmly established Bong as a creative force of nature and afforded him the cache to make “Mother” in 2009, the monster is… well, it’s an actual fucking monster, with slimy skin and a prehensile tail and a sweet tooth for small children.
The special…
bong joon-ho said of course i support america’s rights... america’s rights to shut the fuck up!
Early on when the Steve Buscemi monster is attacking people in the park there’s a quick shot of a dog just going to town on its owner. Seems unrelated to the monster, the dog was just looking for an opening to kill its master. Right on.
this movie been around since 2006 and some humans still litter smh hope y'all get eaten by giant catfish monster
What do you do if you're Bong Joon-ho and you've just made Memories of Murder, one of the single most devastating portrayals of police brutality and serial killers ever put to screen? (seriously, my eyes are welling up thinking about it. Watch it.)
The answer is go for an insane comedy-drama monster movie about a fucked up family who're on a mission to hunt down a monster causing mayhem and murder on the banks of the Han river in Seoul.
Throw in some clever political commentary about police incompetence in Korea, the US military's flippantly arrogant policies abroad (and how the Korean government typically kowtows to them), and government bunglings in general for good measure.
Test the family at every…
The best way to describe this movie is that the American scientist ordering his assistant to pour formaldehyde down the drain is more jarring than a monster popping out of the river and killing people. It’s whacky and stupid but subversive and biting, and while the beginning had me a little unsure of how to feel about the tonal blend, it developed into something really neat.
A movie about how the government invented a virus really has me thinking... hmm...
Bong Joon-Ho's sci-fi movie The Host is scary and manages to incorporate some of his favorite things including: environmentalism, Song Kang-Ho's face getting slammed on the floor, and rainwater dripping off faces. This movie is quite intense! It reminds me a lot of jaws in the way that you never quite figure out the monster.
His ability to film faces is exceptional. Rather than showing you the action all the time, he frequently lingers on a reaction shot, often in slow motion. He uses the old-school and always effective technique that not showing the reaction can often be scarier than the gore itself. It is also…
The history between Korea and the United States predates the Korean war itself (1950-1953), which implied the invasion executed by North Korea, with the aid of China and the Soviet Union, against South Korea, the latter having United States as the principal force through the provision of approximately 88% of the military personnel of the United Nations. It even goes back to the Cairo Conference of 1943, where the United States, the United Kingdom and China decided "in due course Korea shall become free and independent." However, to talk about The Host, directed by Joon-ho Bong, responsible for one of the most pervasively complete crime and detective procedural movies ever made, compels the reviewer to at least reference briefly the…
