The Films of Bong Joon-ho: Mother (2009)

October 25, 2019 The Films of Bong Joon-ho: Mother (2009) Mother (2009)   Directed by: Joon-ho Bong. Written by: Joon-ho Bong and Eun-kyo Park & Joon-ho Bong. Starring: Hye-ja Kim (Mother), Won Bin (Yoon Do-joon), Goo Jin (Jin-tae), Je-mun Yun (Je-moon), Mi-seon Jeon (Mi-sun), Sae-byeok Song (Sepaktakraw Detective), Woo-hee Chun (Mi-na), Gin-goo Kim (Ah-jeong's Grandma), Moo-yeong Yeo (Lawyer Kong Seok-ho), Hee-ra Mun (Moon Ah-jeong), Mi-do Lee (Hyung-teo), Young-ki Jung (Kkang-ma), Gyu-pil Go (Ddung-ddung), Hong-jib Kim (Jong-pal), Kyung-Sook Cho (Mi-na's Mama), Myung-shin Park (Chief), Tae-won Kim (Young Do-jun).   You think you know where Joon-ho Bong’s Mother is going – and you are almost certainly going to be wrong. After a few establishing scenes, where we get to know Do-joon (Won Bin) – a mental with some mental difficulties, and his devoted mother (Kim Hye-ja), who is never given a name other than Mother – we find out a murder has been committed. The murder is that of a teenage girl – whose head was bashed in, be... read