Okja is now streaming on Netflix and playing in select iPic theaters In New York and Los Angeles.
There is no other filmmaker working today like Bong Joon Ho. Through his past efforts, the South Korean writer and director has managed to deliver stories on a consistent basis that are often equal parts entertaining action adventures and social political satires. It’s not just that very few filmmakers have ever managed to so successfully walk the kind of chaotic tonal tightrope than Joon Ho has with say 2006’s The Host or 2014’s Snowpiercer, but very few filmmakers would ever dare try to. There’s a magic at the heart of each of Joon Ho’s films for that very reason, though, which makes it hard not to get caught up in the sheer talent and enthusiasm that he brings to each and every single one of his movies, and his latest film, Okja, is no exception.
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There is no other filmmaker working today like Bong Joon Ho. Through his past efforts, the South Korean writer and director has managed to deliver stories on a consistent basis that are often equal parts entertaining action adventures and social political satires. It’s not just that very few filmmakers have ever managed to so successfully walk the kind of chaotic tonal tightrope than Joon Ho has with say 2006’s The Host or 2014’s Snowpiercer, but very few filmmakers would ever dare try to. There’s a magic at the heart of each of Joon Ho’s films for that very reason, though, which makes it hard not to get caught up in the sheer talent and enthusiasm that he brings to each and every single one of his movies, and his latest film, Okja, is no exception.
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