This movie shouldn’t still be relevant, it should be a relic of a time we’ve solved away. But I’m sure all the people I know my age reading this review did their fair share of school shooter drills. What really got me was how understated the whole ending was, it didn’t milk the drama out of a school shooting, it mostly focused on detached characters, physically keeping the camera away from the emotion.
It’s still a rarity to know the…
As we’ve started to let our science fiction fantasies become reality and humanity feels some pressure to look at the stars, Bong Joon Ho bites at the people who are a little too eager to point us the way. In Mickey 17 we get a bit of Okja, a bit of Snowpiercer, but also something a little fresh, a blockbuster taken to its most interesting conclusions. The worker in its most hyperbolic, fragile state: Mickey is given little opportunity and…
