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Public service announcement: Put down the bottle and pick up the bong. Well, not really, but there is growing support that the alternative to unsafe drinking habits is a small, green plant...
...Cannes Film Festival, broke box office records in its home country with 13 million viewers in four months. The film focuses on a mutant monster generated by a U.S. Army laboratory which illegally dumped chemicals in the Han River (the “Seine of Seoul”). Bong was especially applauded for his ability to mix the conventions of a genre film—a monster film in this case—with his facetious social satire and the poignancy of familial bonds...
After the release of “The Host,” Bong began to receive international attention. The acclaimed French film journal Cahiers du cinéma ranked the movie as the third best film of 2006. Film critic Wesley Morris from The Boston Globe also listed “The Host” as the ninth best movie of 2007, after it premiered in the States...
...reception following the screening of “Mother,” Bong left a personal message to Harvard students concentrating in film studies: “About 15 years ago, I was also a student studying cinema—some bitter-sweet memories. You must feel the same...
...hope you come up with unprecedented and unconventional movies—I will look forward to them,” Bong said, this time without a hint of his trademark sarcasm...