New Netflix film Okja is sci-fi satire so sharp it will cut you Bong Joon Ho is back with a dark, futuristic fairy tale about GMO pigs and corporate insanity. Bong’s last effort, Snowpiercer, was also a stunning action-adventure that housed a bracing political message.
Okja was very overt in it's political message and it may turn some off. It’s a malignant force. LMD: I feel like in all the political messages throughout OKJA, Kim is sort of his own political or societal message.
But unlike that grim and grinding film, Okja has a lightness to it. There is a moment late in the film where a member of the ALF tells a crowd of civilians to learn more about the hell of slaughterhouses by Googling “Mirando is Fucked,” where they will find video footage of super pigs being abused in the name of affordable jerky. The country’s top theater chain, CJ CGV, backed out of releasing the movie earlier this week, meaning “Okja” will not be allowed to screen in 93% of … Rewatch with Dana to get her more into Bong Joon-Ho. It’s a bold strategy that has worked before for this film-maker – in The Host and Snowpiercer he used the genres of horror and action, respectively, to smuggle through political and environmental messages. He has always shunned the label of political filmmaker. Okja opens in cinemas on 28 June; Topics.
Block or Report. Here his ability to craft entertaining original ideas with deeper political messages into genre films takes the form of a kid and their pet adventure.
To be honest, Okja’s politics are all over the place, his centre of focus wobbly, the human story cloying.
He seems quite rebellious, and not deferential to … Okja Mark Kermode's film of … Summary: For 10 idyllic years, young Mija (An Seo Hyun) has been caretaker and constant companion to Okja — a massive animal and an even bigger friend — at her home in the mountains of South Korea. A blend of action, thriller, drama and a heavy sprinkling of the wacky, with it all held together with a political message. The political message I think Bong is identifying here concerns US imperialism’s way of making itself look benign, on our side, but the opposite is true.
In many ways it’s the best children film that you can’t actually show to children – Tilda’s F-bomb in the opening monologue, for example, sets the tone that Okja isn’t going to play by mainstream expectation. The unconventional, direct-to-Netflix distribution of Okja further underlines political nature of its thesis.
Culture > Film > Features Okja's Jake Gyllenhaal interview: 'I’m interested in taking risks. Based on the trailer there's a larger political message. Okja deserves to be seen in a cinema, but we have streaming services like Netflix to thank for its strange existence. ‘Okja’ and its message on meat “Okja” is essentially about a girl who is trying to prevent factory farmers from turning her giant pet pig into jerky. The political message is more clearly defined too, and in this way “Okja” channels “E.T.,” with its scathing indictment of institutional greed.
But Okja risks falling between two stools.
Ronson’s approach to the specific assigning of blame and the avoidance of ideology is very much in line with Bong’s politics as well.
Block this member This member is blocked; Report this review; aldershot liked these reviews. Okja, however, is about as mainstream as Bong gets.Released through Netflix (online June 28, in cinemas at a later date), it's the coming-of-age story of … This message is so overpowering it almost seems like Okja is a dark comedy.
But if you don't mind it, or even in agreeance, Okja is incredibly heartwarming and a delight to watch.
This desire to humanize the villains causes Okja dramatic problems, and muddies a clear anticorporate, animal-rights message.