{"id":6358,"date":"2009-11-12T14:14:05","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T22:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=6358"},"modified":"2009-11-12T14:27:32","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T22:27:32","slug":"mother-bong-joon-ho-2009-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=6358","title":{"rendered":"Mother (Bong Joon-Ho, 2009): South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by <a href=\"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?author=745\">Dru Radovich<\/a>. Viewed at Graumann&#8217;s Chinese Theater, 2009 AFI Film Festival. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.collider.com\/wp-content\/image-base\/Movies\/M\/Mother\/movie_images\/movie_image_mother_bong_joon_ho_01.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; float: left\" height=\"220\" width=\"325\"\/>Bong Joon-ho&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1216496\/\" target=_new>Mother<\/a><\/em> is the modern take on a twisted murder mystery story. Simply put, Mother is the tale of a mother\u2019s mission to prove her son\u2019s innocence. Never a dull moment to a seemingly basic plot line, Kyung-Pyo Hong\u2019s cinematography, revealing gruesome details never-before-seen in films, is what takes the film to an entirely different level.<\/p>\n<p>The film opens with the mother, Hye-ja Kim, in a picturesque field, a breathtaking golden wheat field, without a care in the world, dancing freely. The camera cuts suddenly to the mother closely watching her son from a distance as he is arrested. From that point on, Bong Joon-ho allows the audience into the head of the mother and the story unravels from there.<\/p>\n<p>The tangled web of coincidences that stems from a concerned mother set out to prove her mentally slow son\u2019s innocence not only backfires, but puts her in countless compromising positions as well. The close-ups of the mother and the unmasked details of her face allow viewers to side with the mother and understand the hardships she has overcome. \u00a0Bong Joon-ho does an incredible job of capturing every single detail in a mother\u2019s thought process when it comes to rescuing her son. Although the events in Mother are outlandish and almost unheard of, the feelings and actions of the characters are easily relatable cannot walk out of this film without having taken a greater message to apply to their own lives. Loyalty and blind devotion to family, not to mention self- realization, are among the many messages to take out of this thrilling motion picture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by Dru Radovich. Viewed at Graumann&#8217;s Chinese Theater, 2009 AFI Film Festival. Bong Joon-ho&#8217;s Mother is the modern take on a twisted murder mystery story. Simply put, Mother is the tale of a mother\u2019s mission to prove her son\u2019s innocence. Never a dull moment to a seemingly basic plot line, Kyung-Pyo Hong\u2019s cinematography, revealing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":745,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afi-filmfest-2009","category-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/745"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}