"Monster of the Han River" breaks through the classic model of American Hollywood monster films. It uses Hollywood's film grammar to combine oriental family ethics, national narrative of national trauma and the horror consciousness of monster images. Through the marginal colors and bottom-level perspectives of small people, it is a metaphor for South Korea. The oppression of the people by "monsters" in society satirizes various social phenomena with a rich bottom-level perspective, which is not only a subversion of traditional monster movies, but also a powerful artistic criticism. The Korean thriller genre created by Bong Joon-ho embraces decolonization and re-identification of "Asian identity", and is also a social and cultural response to Western hegemony. "The Monster of the Han River" uses monsters as a metaphor for the other, expressing an unconscious psychological mirror in the "national identity imagination" of the Korean people. Through the "Monster of the Han River", the Korean people have further established themselves, and Korean films have finally come out of their own. the way.
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