"How much do we control ourselves?"
Bong Joon-Ho's visually wholesome satire graduation short film explores this question. The film's structure and characterization deftly engage with Sigmund Freud's concepts of the id, ego, and superego.
Through a series of vignettes, the film presents powerful middle-aged male characters who publicly condemn the very acts they indulge in privately. Each character is first driven by the id's primal urges - whether it's inappropriate sexual behavior, petty theft, or (vile) drunken debauchery. In their…
