Mother 📍

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In honor, today’s movie is Mother (2009), streaming on Hulu, the fourth film by the Oscar-winning director of Parasite Bong Joon-ho. This black comedy crime thriller is the film that would launch Bong’s career into the stratosphere as it premiered at Cannes and won actress Kim Hye-ja the LAFCA award for Best Actress. Had this premiered after Parasite, I think she’d walk away an Oscar winner.

Here’s what it’s about: An unnamed Mother (Kim Hye-ja) spends her days running an apothecary, giving illegal acupuncture treatments, and looking after her mildly intellectually disabled adult son Do-joon (Won Bin). Though he doesn’t let that stop him from trying to live his own life. After a girl (Moon Hee-ra) is found dead, Do-joon is charged with the murder. To prove his innocence, his mother tries to find the killer herself. [Tr…