Unlikely hero Mickey Barnes finds himself in the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to the job… to die, for a living.
15 Sep Mickey 17 (2025)
Animal Love
A love story, a very clever and dear love story. I like anything Bong Joon Ho does, but find his social commentary often gets in the way. So, subtract that out here. It has little to do with his overlap of cinematic and story elements.
The thing that worked for me — as in many of his projects — is how female characters lock on to their world, creating and reinforcing it while (almost incidentally) engaging with a man.
Here, the man or men are part of the environment, the fabulated world, both essential and aberrations. Very, very clever and I hope we see more from this guy, but ideally with a better director of photography.
On the social commentary side, it isn’t the stance that annoys. I’m with him on values, and the selfish, preening advantage of a ruling class. It is just that it is too teachy.
Posted in 2025
Ted’s Evaluation — 2 of 3: Has some interesting elements.
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