There are certain films which, with regard to author directors, double as entry points for new arrivals. In most cases, they tend to be the films that acted as films in small groups for their directors, those who have announced to the American popular culture as a whole that they are a force with which it is necessary to count. For the South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon Ho, this film is unequivocal “parasitus”, which stormed the United States compared to its release in May 2019. The film led a wave of positive word of mouth to 92nd Oscars, after which, after which He was nominated for six Oscars and won four, including the best filmWhich makes it the very first non -English -speaking film to obtain this honor. In the space of a year, the director Bong has gone from someone known mainly in the circles of moviegoers to a familiar name.

Following the dazzling success of “Parasite”, Bong Joon Ho received what most filmmakers win both the best film and the best director receive, who are actually the opportunity to make a white check film like the next project. This film turns out to be This month “Mickey 17” of this month, “ And for those who have only become familiar with the director Bong by “Parasite”, this may seem a particularly bizarre follow -up. At the visual and narrative level, “Mickey 17” is an absolutely unshakeable science fiction film filled with spacecraft, future technology (with technobabble exhibition) and scandalous creatures. As such, for those who have only seen “parasitic”, the relat -time curve in “Mickey 17” can be quite steep, enough for this to be swapped. However, the film carries a ton of signing touches by director Bong, acting as almost a culmination of all his filmography so far. So, for those who decide to make the jump directly from the “parasite” to “Mickey 17”, the experience could end up much more enriching and enlightening.

I had the chance to see an early projection of “Mickey 17” in Los Angeles, and the word I heard the most among my colleagues participating thereafter was “weird”. Yes, “Mickey 17” is not the simplest premise to swallow, even if you are already a science fiction fan. Based on the novel of 2022 “Mickey7” by Edward Ashton, the story concerns Mickey Barnes (Robert Pattinson), a descent on his lucky man who is chased by a loan shark on land which becomes more and more uninhabitable. By seeking to join a colonizing expedition as quickly as possible, Mickey is blindly fungus in service as a “consumable”, which means that he will give his body to science … Perpetuity, for each time he dies, he is immediately reprinted at the age he has perished with all his intact memories. In addition to this already eccentric premise, the director Bong adds a barely veiled amalgamal analog for some of our past (and unfortunately current) political figures in the character of Kenneth Marshall (Mark Ruffalo), a sociological and ecological crisis that develops once the human colonists end at the house of Nilfheim and the existing mickey at two places After his departure for death but will not die.

Admittedly, it is a lot to take, and for those who are not already paid for gender, it could be too weird (there is still this word). While “Mickey 17” has all these science fiction assets that could repel those who are more easily locked up The relatable class parable of “parasite”He nevertheless said just as rich and convincing an allegory. The theme of the disparity of classes in an oppressive capitalist society is imbued with “Mickey 17”, seen in everything, from the consumable distress of Mickey to embarrassing and demoralizing positions of other members of the spaceship are forced to fill (including a Marshall supporter who must spend all his time wearing a bird costume). If you liked “parasite” for his social commentary, you will find an abundance of wealth in “Mickey 17”. You just have to learn to love lianas, and fortunately, it is not a huge demand, because they are adorable!

If the only director’s film you saw is “parasitic”, then you have a very good cinema to discover in front of you, especially if you end up digging “Mickey 17”. In addition to the film containing a good amount of thematic DNA of “parasite”, there are also a number of elements of several other previous films by Bong Joon Ho which can be found throughout the film. The main one among these is the material of its two other characteristics of the English language to date, “SnowPercer” of 2013 And “Ohkja” from 2017. In the first, the director Bong adapts a graphic French-fiction novel, a story on a future where the earth was so devastated after a disastrous attempt to resolve climate change that everything has frozen, leaving the last remains of the human race to have the globe in a moving train perpetually called Snowpiecer. Like “Mickey 17” and “Parasite”, “Snowpiercer” uses visual iconography to delimit his characters by their class, the poor passengers at the back of the train fighting literally towards the forehead.

Meanwhile, in “Okja”, the director Bong represents another present day when scientists have designed a way to raise a “super pig”, a creature which is intended to serve as a new superior food source. Unfortunately, the scourge of capitalism stands up again its ugly head, with the unscrupulous Mirando Corporation pointing out to mistreat these animals (including the Super Pig), leading to a militant group who tries to save the creatures. This concept makes a return to “Mickey 17” thanks to the woman of Marshall, Ylfa (Toni Collette), becoming obsessed with the slaughter of lianas and using their tail to make various gastronomic sauces. Speaking of Creepers, there are echoes of the film by director Bong in 2006 “The host” In them too, insofar as Kaiju type creatures may not necessarily be real monsters (or only).

In the end, however, if “Mickey 17” ends up getting fired, it’s probably a good thing. There is no better way to expand your artistic horizons than a good clicking, because it is the kind of experience that ends up staying with you for a long time. More often than not, you will see that making your expectations and limits grow back (again on the artistic level) will only like your interests and tastes, leading you to new places where you may not have gone before. If these places are Other dystopian science fiction filmsThe rest of the work of director Bong, or a combination of the two, then “Mickey 17” could be a brand new gateway film for you and hundreds of others. Pahrase John Lennon: All we say is to give Mickey a chance.