Bong Joon Ho’s new film, the Netflix Original production Okja, plays at TIFF Bell Lightbox this week as part of a series of Bong double-bills.
Bong Joon Ho has an uncanny ability to create high-concept storytelling out of the simplest of premises. No matter how ambitious or far-reaching his subjects — which have included the unknowability of truth (Memories of Murder), the slavish indifference to governmental hegemony (The Host), and the struggle between haves and have-nots (Snowpiercer) — Bong has always relied on that most essential element of cinema to visualize his themes: movement. In the brief visual analyses below, we show how in each of his films, Bong Joon Ho puts the “motion” in motion pictures.
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