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How Bong Joon Ho Crafted His First (Mostly) Happy Ending
The Parasite director talks about the Trump parallels and optimism of his new movie, Mickey 17.
That’s the premise of optimism — as small as that hope may be, I think that’s how we should go about it.” The fruits of this philosophy have been a slate of films that feature some of the millennium’s most perversely bittersweet endings, from a retired detective having one last maddening brush with a long-unsolved case to a pair of children discovering that life on Earth has survived the apocalypse, even if humanity may not. But Kenneth Marshall (Mark Ruffalo), the colony’s preening despot, has another idea, and sends the clones out as sacrificial vanguards in the war he’s stoking against the planet’s indigenous population — shaggy, tentacled pill bug guys who turn out to be highly intelligent. When the Mickeys refuse to attack, and instead opt to communicate with the native creatures, their efforts to broker peace spark a rebellion amongst the humans, leading to Marshall’s death, the demolition of the printer, and a kinder, more cooperative future for the faraway community.
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