Bong Joon Ho
3 titles · korean new wave
Genre used as a class argument, tone switched without warning. Bong moves from farce to horror to grief inside a scene, and his monsters and murderers are usually downstream of an institutional failure.
Signature
- Abrupt tonal shifts held in a single sequence.
- Vertical and horizontal space encoding class.
- Incompetent or indifferent institutions.
- Genre premises resolved as social critique.
Memories of Murder
Mother
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