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What's your favorite film by Joon-ho Bong?

Barking Dogs Never Bite
1 (2.2%)
Memories of Murder
21 (46.7%)
The Host
8 (17.8%)
Mother
9 (20%)
Snowpiercer
4 (8.9%)
Okja
0 (0%)
Parasite
2 (4.4%)
Untitled
0 (0%)
Untitled 2
0 (0%)
don't like any
0 (0%)
haven't seen any
0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 45

Author Topic: Bong, Joon-ho  (Read 8355 times)

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Re: Bong, Joon-ho
« Reply #60 on: October 20, 2019, 07:38:39 PM »
SNOWPIERCER is crazy underrated. I don't understand how people have a problem with the tone of that movie and not his other films.

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Re: Bong, Joon-ho
« Reply #61 on: October 21, 2019, 03:49:51 AM »
SNOWPIERCER is crazy underrated. I don't understand how people have a problem with the tone of that movie and not his other films.

Haven't seen it yet, but presumably it has to do with the barrier of language being removed. It's perhaps easier to accept outlandish things when they're said in a foreign tongue and then translated into English (which makes one more forgiving of the language being used), than it is when it's your own language. The foreign language adds a layer of artifice which helps with making things just "off".
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