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Every Day is Her Day in Director Bong Joon-ho’s ‘Mother’
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CHICAGO – The concept of family is a fascinating subject for notable South Korean director Bong Joon-ho. His monster movie “The Host” celebrated those familial bonds, and now an even closer relationship emerges in “Mother.”
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Mother is portrayed by Kim Hye-ja, in the mode of smothering. She is devoted to her son, Do-joon (Bin Won), who is portrayed as a bit developmentally disabled. He is easily manipulated by friends, and his own over-enthusiasm for the opposite sex. It is during on of these pursuits that he drunkly follows a school girl. When the girl is found dead the next day, he becomes the prime suspect and is arrested.
Mother won’t have any of that. She is determined to clear her beloved son’s name. Becoming a one woman Sherlock Holmes, she circumvents both the police and her own lawyer to launch an investigation of her own. Using bribes, breaking into a home and an obsessive matriarchal intuition, Mother finds herself in a strange and surreal circumstance, one that leads into revelations that might be best left unresolved.
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