The director chooses the locations such as the drainage, under the bridge.
The touching part: two teenagers have the companion with each other and seek food in the left-behind grocery stores. The senior tells the junior not to steal the money. They are only borrowing things.
The imagination of the missed girl appearing in their grocery store is really creative. They didn't say any single words, the missing girl just shows up there.
And he likes to have young people to maintain the hope.
Dialogue can have the interactive side. It can be a rhetorical question.
Comedy: Usually family conflicts' scene includes loud argument or physical fight, but in HOST, when the father was criticizing how other two treated the eldest badly, all the three of his sons and daughter actually fall asleep. So essentially the father is communicating with audience. That is a moment of building relationship with audience in cinema. And also it is reverse of the usual conflict scene.
The masterful directing on slow motion:
Slow motion: The father stares at the son when the moment of danger(monster fish) is right in front of them. Father signs to him to go back to the vehicle.
Then the monster fish takes the father !!!!
Slow motion again: the three children have the facial expression of being shocked and fear. But there is no sound of their shouting.
Slow motion is so well used here. It helps audience pause on the right beat to sense the danger and then the characters' reaction to the tragedy. We see the horror on the faces instead of the horror itself.
The young brother has the little arch . He is a colleague graduate student but can't find decent jobs. In the emergency moment, he uses his knowledge to find the missing girl's location through a tele-communication company.
Moving element: The older son is caught in the hospital. Her sister calls him that she already found his missing daughter's location. And meanwhile, he is forced to take a shot by his doctors. He rebels, but not against the shot since he is a clueless character who doesn't know what exactly the government is doing, instead, against being delayed to rescue his daughter. For him, the fight point is for the daughter, not himself. That is touching.
The climax: a complex of slow motion, families actions to kill the monster
The ending: the Slap on government propaganda.
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