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Mother (2009)

This has been on my radar for a while, the last Bong Joon-ho movie I watched resonated with me with his great storytelling and awesome angle shots that drew me in and made me want to find out where it was all going. Like playing with a matryoshka doll on a rollercoaster ride - there are so many twists, turns, and layers to his films. I also really do appreciate the performances in scenes where there are no jump cuts. This was a beautifully shot film. One of my favorite scenes is where the mother is trying to navigate through a cluttered room with a possible murder weapon after watching her son's best friend have sex with a minor. This gets pretty dark the more you keep watching.

This movie also brought up questions about certain medicines and acupuncture therapy, like can a needle really help a woman get pregnant or even clear depression or bad thoughts and memories. Bong's directing makes me rub my temples trying to remember what it was that he was trying to tell me, and I often get those oh moments. And like Parasite, Im sure there are some things I missed on first viewings, but the themes he throws at you as you watch it unfold is like poetry. From the opening scene in the field, a strange lady dancing with no care, and then you find out why in a powerful ending when she pokes that needle into her thigh to make all her thoughts go away, as the music starts up and she begins to dance again.

I stopped and thought about the opening and ending scenes. On the bus, she started dancing after her acupuncture. In the opening, she was dancing without the acupuncture as she had forgotten her needle kit in the burning house. Probably thinking too much into it but I thought that was interesting.

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dilateDChemist
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