After four years of filming "Snowpiercer", Feng Junhao spent another four years filming "Okja", a so-called "love movie" in his mouth.
Of course, Feng Junhao's so-called "love movie" is actually just a mockery of "genre movies". Indeed, "Okja" is not a purely political film like "Snowpiercer", nor is it a Disney movie that depicts the beauty of people and animals. Feelings, but a combination of the two, is "Bong Joon Ho Movie".
The general plot of "Yuzi":
The mutant super giant pig with a "cute but sad face" was raised in the valley of Gangwon-do, South Korea, and grew up with the local farm girl Miko, playing in the water, eating persimmons, blowing dandelions, and sleeping in the sun. ... carefree and very happy. However, this is actually a ten-year-long plan of a multinational group in the United States, Mirandos, to foster 26 mutant pigs in 26 different places around the world. Ten years later, the most powerful (actually the best) will be evaluated. eat) of super pigs, and then mass-produce pork for consumption by people all over the world.
There are always surprises in the plan. If it weren’t for Meizi, it is estimated that the plan will be successfully implemented in all likelihood, and a successful business case will be born (actually, it is a commercial fraud. Super pigs are pigs born after genetic mutation, but the company has Promote non-GMO, natural, and environmental protection to the outside world). Unexpectedly, a deep friendship developed between Yuzi and Miko, who grew up together. In order to rescue Yuzi from Mirandor, Miko came to Manhattan, New York from Gangwon-do, South Korea. With the assistance of the Animal Protection Association, she passed After all kinds of difficulties, in the end, through the form of business, the golden pig that her grandfather gave her as a dowry bought Yuzi from Mirandor Company. In the meantime, Meizi saw the cruel and inhumane breeding process, the crowded and depressing pig farms, the stylized pig slaughtering line...
Of course, Bong Joon-ho's films must have metaphors, but this time it's not political, but economic. Feng Junhao said in the interview, "The journey of Miko from Gangwon-do to Manhattan in "Okja" is similar to "Mr. Smith to Washington" , and also similar to Curtis's experience from the end car to the front in "Snowpiercer" It's ironic that Miko was forced to break into the economic center of Manhattan from a simple valley and start a series of confrontations, only to have to end one business with another.
Tilda Swinton is divided into two roles in "Yuzi" (the twins look opposite, but they are actually the same in nature, and treat everything as a business), and her sister's sentence is very classic: "We are businessmen, and we do business. ". There are also the feared armed teams supported by the economic group, which probably explains everything that has been kidnapped by the economy. That's why the sincere relationship between Tamago and Miko is so touching.
Yuko:
The image of Okja comes from a scene Bong Joon-ho saw by chance. He said, "In 2010, I happened to see a large animal on the road while driving. She was very shy and felt very introverted, so I started to think about it. Doing a story about that animal is the origin of the birth of Yuzi."
The Super Pig Yuko in the movie is actually a combination of a pig, a manatee and a dog. Pigs are the most sophisticated and innocent at the same time; manatees are the kind that "look like the kindest and most vulnerable animals"; dogs are loyal and affectionate. Feng Junhao said on various occasions that Okja's image is very cute, but in fact, I didn't see how cute Okja was from the beginning to the end, on the contrary, it was the scenes where Okja's eyes were rolling around that made me feel that this bulky and simple behemoth made me People dare not get close.
ending:
The ending of the movie we saw is that Meizi successfully "redemption" Yuzi with her own golden pig, and on the way to leave the Mirandor slaughterhouse, she rescued a little pig and returned to the mountains to live together. Feng Junhao once said in an interview with HuffingtonPost that in fact he originally envisioned a more positive and appealing happy ending, similar to the victory of the revolution, and thousands of members of the Animal Liberation Front gathered in Manhattan for slaughter at the Mirandor Company. The farm liberated all the mutant pigs that were kept in Milan for slaughter. But later, Feng Junhao felt that it was not realistic and a little too optimistic to let a loose animal protection organization defeat a powerful large multinational group.
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