A film for right now, from a master
Oct 11, 2019
3 minutes
By Stephanie Zacharek
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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