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A film for right now, from a master

ECAUSE MOVIES TAKE SO LONG to make, they can’t always be as immediately topical as television is. But whether by sheer luck or keen prescience, Bong Joon-ho’s is the movie for right now. Kim Ki-taek (Song Kang-ho) and Chung-sook (Jang Hye-jin) live with their two teenagers in a small basement apartment. Both parents are unemployed, and the family picks up odd jobs—like folding pizza boxes, badly—to make ends meet. But even if the Kims’ living conditions

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