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Podcast: Verbal Diorama
Episode: The Host (κ΄΄λ¬Ό) (2006)
Description: Bong Joon-ho is a fascinating director, and for the start of Kaijune, a theme month dedicated to cinematic monsters, I simple had to start with The Host, one of his lesser-known films but also one of his most accomplished.Bong Joon-ho does tend to make movies about monsters, but usually theyβre figurative monsters. Capitalism, colonialism, greed, class inequalities, social injustice. But here, this is a literal monster born from humanity's greed, government conspiracy and environmental disaster. A monster who will eat anyone and anything in its path. A monster Bong was insistent to show in its en...