‘Kim Ji-young, Born 1982’: The agonies of the everyday and a hope for the better
September 23, 2020
Kim Ji-young (Jung Yu-mi), Born 1982, lives at home with her two-year-old daughter. Having sacrificed her dream of being an author to work at a marketing agency, and then sacrificed her life at the agency to care for her daughter, Ji-young is suffocating under an avalanche of quiet disappointments and quotidian agonies. The pain she […]
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Bong Joon-Ho wages class warfare in ‘Parasite’, one of the most socially scathing films in recent memory
October 9, 2019
In the middle of Parasite, one of its characters asks another if they should feel bad about exploiting the rich Park family. “They’re rich but still nice,” he admits after some thought. But his family is not entirely convinced. “They’re nice because they’re rich,” they correct. That’s just one of the many conundrums that seeks […]
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