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#The host writer and director movie#
It’s an easy movie to watch and love, but it also embodies all of the director’s most famous characteristics, and then adds a big slimy monster, just for fun.
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Released between two of his masterpieces, 2003’s Memories of Murder and 2009’s Mother, it was wildly popular in its home country and well-respected abroad.Īnd among Bong’s filmography, The Host may be the best companion piece to Parasite, something their titles may signal (the former’s more literal Korean title notwithstanding). It bears all the imprint of a signature Bong film, with a romping, slyly funny genre-bending plot that jumps from comedy to horror to tragedy to drama and back again, while carrying a clear - but never too clear - social critique. In many ways, The Host embodies the same qualities that made Parasite so appealing to audiences, critics, and the Academy, who gave it four well-deserved golden statues on Oscar night. For those whose introduction to Bong’s work was through Parasite, The Host is an ideal place to start with the director’s other films. But the resonance between the two English titles, which evoke similar themes of bloodsucking dependency, suggest a pairing.
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It’s noteworthy that the director of Parasite made a movie called The Host 14 years before his historic Oscars Best Picture win - even if the Korean title of the 2006 film translates more directly as “Monster.” What was only the third feature film from virtuosic writer and director Bong Joon-ho is, indeed, a monster movie, possibly even the defining monster movie of the century.