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A Guide to Director Bong Joon Ho’s Deeper Cuts
Some of his best work still might be the movies set domestically in South Korea.
In person, Bong said that he’s “partially proud” of the film for its structure and some camera movements, many of which can be seen in episode two, as he tracks the editor-in-chief of the Chosun Ilbo(a famously conservative national paper), who steals milk from other people’s houses. At a 2020 retrospective screening of Memories of Murder in New York, Bong acknowledged that there were spiritual similarities between his crime drama and the 2007 movie Zodiac — but, he pointed out, as much as he’s a fan of David Fincher, his film came first. While it makes off with children and leaves destruction in its wake, it’s never as scary as the partnership between the Korean government and the U.S. military that lurches into motion to deal with it, instantly becoming a morass of misinformation and trampled rights.
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