This story is a non-sci-fi story with a sci-fi setting as a backdrop. Much like Bong Joon-ho’s other films, this one takes on painfully relevant modern day topics.
The morality of murder and ethics of cloning came to my mind first. Mickey’s job title is an expendable, but this bleeds into how he is treated by people outside of his work life (his friend coming to retrieve a gun but leaving him for dead). How is this process ethically sound,…