Repeatedly billed as a horror movie, The Host in actual fact has as a lot comedy, drama and suspense thriller as it has horror. The emphasis is on one familys attempts towards amazing obstacles, even more human than non-human, to rescue its little one from a mutant monster. Hero of the motion picture, Gangdu, performed by Tune Kangho, one of South Koreas major actors, is a most unconventional one: the black sheep of his family members, not very vivid and dozing off a good deal, he appears a pathetic outsider in a society that values worldly achievement and achievements through human values. When his teenage daughter Hyunseo (Ko Asung)is captured by the scaled-up fish freak, Gangdu turns into solitary-mindedly decided to conserve her and rallies his father and two siblings towards formidable odds. The family members is arrested and imprisoned by authorities authorities when they break out, they are declared threatening and have a immense price range on their heads. Collective ly and independently, Gangdu and his siblings go through trials that often times finish in failure in their makes an attempt to get Hyungseo back again house.
Bongs path generates a rather shifting tale about the heroism of consumers, singly and together, in striving to accomplish an item irrespective of overwhelming social and political resistance towards them and repeated failures. Gangdu and his family members often times act previous to they contemplate and their preparing is even more impulsive than thought-about a good deal of time and energy will get wasted and someone dies previous to they contemplate of linking Hyunseos desperate cellphone calls to her spot. Theres a subtext very that criticises South Koreas subservient romantic relationship to the United States: the monster alone is a creation of an unintended science experiment when a science lab worker is ordered by his American supervisor to pour a blend of chemical compounds down a sink in violation of lab procedures. The chemical compounds go untreated into the Han river which flows by using Seoul. Several years later when the monster starts its rampage by using ele ments of the town, the US armed forces tells the authorities to detain all of us whos had get hold of with the monster below the guise of avoiding a virus outbreak. Modern society is forced into lockdown and peoples rights and freedoms are suppressed. This forces Gangdu and his siblings to become fuyarde outsiders in purchase to rescue Hyunseo. Western audiences at the very least get the message about how even the mere risk of terrorism, biological or other, can serve as an chance for governments to clamp down on democracy and what will want to be the rule of legislation.
As Gangdu, Tune basically carries the movie on his shoulders and gives his comic, clownish character amazing psychological depth and internal energy that make his feats credible. Dim-witted and lazy he may likely be but Gangdu often times exhibits animal crafty in evading or tricking the authorities. Park Hae-il gives outstanding aid as Gangdus unemployed uni graduate brother who in the beginning appears down on Gangdu butbecomes a insignificant hero inrisking his freedomto find Hyunseo by using her cellphone calls and in attempting to kill the monster. These characters guidance to maintain the movie likely while in its previous hour when the plot sags with Gangdus recapture by the authorities and his sister (Bae Duna) knocked cold by the monster.
As in a great many of Bongs movies, the cinematography is often times outstanding with tremendous pictures of the river and the immense concrete bridge whereby the monster hides amongst the pylons. The creatures habitat turns into an immensely important element of the movies winding plot which starts and ends around the bridge and helps make recurrent visits there.
It appears that any time Bong turns his consideration to a particular motion picture genre, be it horror, murder mystery or regardless of what, the consequence usually enriches and transcends the genre in some way. The movie ends up a refined dangereux of South Korean society, its historyand its obsession with a several established of principles and values that dont make allowances for underdogs or nonconformists. WhileBong obviously sympathises with citizens like Gangdu who run even more on instinct and intuition than on intelligence and who are often times at odds with society, his look at of society isnt idealistic and there is irony in the way the monster is last of all vanquished: a threatening chemical Agent Yellow provided by the US armyis necessary to weaken it previous to it can be killed.
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