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...Mother,” as Bong commented, is a film about a mother who devotedly dotes on her mentally-challenged, twentysomething son. The son, Do-joon, is eventually accused of murdering a high school student. Convinced of his innocence, his mother commits herself to exonerating him, a decision that highlights the macabre limits of maternal love. “Mother” is scheduled to be released on March...
Following a question from the audience apropos of lead actress Kim Hye-ja, Bong talked about the primary incentive of filming “Mother.” “[I devised] a plan that would give me the opportunity to work with [Hye-ja],” he answered...
...Korea, Kim Hye-ja is known as the iconic symbol of a mother. But, due to my perverted taste, I’ve always had this on-going suspicion that she was, in fact, a psycho, and I wondered if she ever had the chance to express her ‘psychotic-ness...
Bong said, “[Park] was especially helpful as a collaborator mainly for two reasons: that Park was a woman, as the movie was about a mother, and that she was from the countryside, where the movie...
...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...