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 Madeo [Mother] 

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Mother (Hangul: 마더; RR: Madeo) is a 2009 South Korean drama film directed by Bong Joon-ho.

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Eh, I wanted to like this as much as Snowpiercer and Parasite, but it ends up falling closer to The Host for me. Much like that movie, the main actors being so hysterical was just such a huge turn off that it took me out of the movie every time they did it. Reading up on it, Bong Joon Ho makes them do it for comedic effect, but I'm not laughing.

It has some good scenes, and the mystery is kind of intriguing even though it was pretty obvious that it was just going to loop back around. I do think it needs you to believe that Mother's absolute devotion and love to her son is enough of a redeeming characteristic to make up for everything else. Her son is mentally disabled sure, but her overbearingness and jealously of his other friends prevents him from ever learning how to do things by himself. And going to the dead girl's funeral showed such a selfish lack of compassion towards anyone outside of her inner circle that I just couldn't ever sympathize with her flight. The movie rewards my feelings towards her by having her turn out to be exactly what I thought, but then it doesn't really go anywhere, and I'm left wondering what the point of all this was.


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