After Bong Joon-Hos “Parasit” took home four Oscar awards (best picture, best director, best original screenplay and the best international feature film) in 2020 and was the first non-English film that received the best picture and the first South Korean film for the Academy Award recognition, film fans were all over pins and Needs Wondering What The Next for Director Bong. The answer came in 2022, when it became known that he adapted to the future novel “Mickey 7”, a science fiction comedy about a man named Mickey Barnes, who dies a “consumer” or a person who dies again and again, and again, and again, and againIn work – with a new human printed copy that was created every day with intact memories.
The result is what I believe is The best English -language film by director Bong, who was so farAnd a devastating charges against the way selfish politicians and capitalism will be the death of all of us. “Mickey 17” is as subtle as a default hammer, but Perfect in harmony with all of his works so far. While human pressure (fortunately) does not exist, we have not tried to colonize another planet at the behest of a cult political personality, which leaves Bigotte Belief Systems and a cult-like followers (but ug), Director Bong’s latest games as satire and a warning of what will come when we don’t be careful. He is no stranger too run a tonal highwireWith moments of existential horror that exist next to the exaggerated camp floors, he and his occupation knew that the mixture for the effectiveness of the film was of crucial importance.
I was honored and privileged, with director Bong (together with the long -time interpreter and filmmaker/dialect coach Sharon Choi) as well as the stars Toni Collette and Naomi Ackie about what “Mickey 17” has to say about the current state of society and what we can all learn from it. Below you will find excerpts from these interviews, but for the complete discussions (as well as my conversation with Star Steven Yeun), turn on the current episode of the /film Daily Podcast.
Bong Joon-Ho knows that people will see themselves in Mickey Barnes
The Fantasy writer Terry Pratchett once wrote that the Evil begins when you start to treat people and objects. Do you agree? And is that a core column of “Mickey 17”?
Director Bong: This is a perfect quote for this film. I wish I knew it earlier when I wrote it because it was really connected to the underlying topics and questions that this film examined. The concept of human pressure is a key element of the film, and this quote is exactly what the human pressure is.
Because people should not be printed out. This is a combination of words that shouldn’t really exist. And this setup itself presents the tragedy and ridiculousness and type of inhumanity of this world. And if you think of Robert Pattinson in this situation, you are even sorry for the character. If you look at Mickey, he is too nice for his own good and always takes the shorter end of the stick. And it really emphasizes the unfortunate situation of Mickey’s story.
I think people often feel unnecessary even without the concept of human pressure, and this really emphasizes how it can feel that they are in an enemy society. Do you see this story as the current landscape that many of us live through?
Director Bong: In Korea there was recently a young worker who unfortunately died at work. And that happens all over the world. And what is even sad is that you get Freddie to replace him when John dies during an extreme job. And when Freddie dies, Tom came in to replace him. So the job remains the same. It is only the people, the person changes constantly and replaces the predecessor. And that’s pretty frightening and also sad. In the film you just see Mickey. He is a person who takes all of these missions and dies all the time. And I think that the setup really reflects our current reality, only shows them more extreme because it is a person who deals and dies and prints out all of this, and that actually relieves the fault of his community because they can simply say: “Oh, it is your job to die. We will simply print them out again.”
We can survive the poor political leadership
What lessons do you hope that the American audience could be able to observe characters living under a ruler like Marshall?
Director Bong: I feel the clear intentions of your question with Marshall’s character of Mark Ruffalo. ((laughs) If you ask us, is it a satire of a certain character? I think it will be difficult for Mark and I to say: “No, absolutely”. ((laughs) But even in Korea there have been some political turbulence recently and Not so good things happened. Yes. And in modern times we all went through bad leaders and political suffering. And I wanted all of this to be mixed in this character.
“Mickey 17” is obviously a story about Mickey Barnes, but it also plays in a society that is aimed at the moods of a cultic fascist, egomaniacal blowhard. They play both women who take up very different ways to exist under this type of administration. What lessons do you hope to learn the audience from your characters that you may be able to integrate into your own life if you … Perhaps ever hypothetically ever Are there under the administration of a cultic fascist, egomanian blowhard?
Naomi Ackie: Wow. Good question.
Toni Collette: See you, my character is really interesting because I am married to Blowhard. ((laughs) But in the end I think that she learns that everyone goes through the same experiences as a person and that you cannot avoid the hard stuff. But actually she is so narcissistic that she doesn’t believe that she would actually change her way as it is! ((laughs) But in the end I think that this is that everyone is important and hopefully we can be aware that we have personal power because it is not promoted naturally in society. It is not – people are not said to take care of this stuff, but it is in each of us.
Ackie: I think about (my character) Nasha, it’s like you are fighting for a person, you fight for many people. I think there is something “(is there) someone in need? Help him”, because that could distract himself into something else. I don’t think Nasha was intended. The end result is not where it started. She didn’t want to – I don’t want to give away anything. But her relentless love for an undervalued person has changed something. I think that’s really important.
“Mickey 17” is now in the cinemas.
