Director Bong Joon Ho follows up his multiple-award-winning PARASITE with another masterful movie. Although not as perfect as PARASITE, MICKEY 17 is a riotous, subversive romp.
Class-conscious as ever, Boon depicts Mickey as an unemployed, luckless character with no employment prospects who, out if desperation, takes a job as an 'Expendable'. Of course, in the eyes of politicians, soldiers are always expendable, but this film takes it to the limit in that these Expendables are reprinted after death, so Mickey…
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If Jesus was a script-writer he'd come up with this - a worthy parable about the insidious corruption that attends association with the powers of oppression.
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