She learns that the victim was a notorious local figure with a demeaning nickname she also tracks the girl's cell phone, which might identify a potential killer. So she begins to probe the murder herself.Īs a detective, Mother isn't very professional, but she is thorough. Convinced of her boy's innocence, his mother hires a lawyer who turns out to be useless and - like several of the movie's other characters - motivated principally by money. Based on circumstantial evidence, the sloppy and inexperienced local police arrest Do-joon. Things get more complicated when a teenage schoolgirl's body is found. The country-club incident sends Do-joon and Jin-tae to the police station, but the conflict is settled easily. While Jin-tae threatens to pummel the upscale motorist and his friends, apparently harmless Do-joon forgets why they're on the club's golf course, distracted by a childlike pleasure. So Do-joon's hothead pal Jin-tae (Jin Gu) takes his slow-witted friend to the local country club to confront the hit-and-run driver.
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Mother and son live on the margins of South Korea's affluent society, a status Bong establishes with the movie's first incident: Do-joon is grazed by a speeding Mercedes, whose driver doesn't even slow down. Do-joon doesn't need this technique, because he has precious little memory. One of her skills is slipping a needle into the proper site to banish troubling recollections. Poor but dignified, Mother makes a meager living from traditional herbal remedies and also does some unlicensed acupuncture on the side. Then we meet her pride, and her trial: son Do-joon (Weon Bin), a 27-year-old with the concentration of a preschooler.
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The movie begins by introducing the unnamed mother, played by Kim Hye-ja, an actress known in Korea for more conventionally maternal roles. Yet in tone it's closer to Barking Dogs Never Bite, which turned the tables on its protagonist with darkly comic glee.
Mother forgoes special effects and is more like a cross between the filmmaker's first two features: Like Memories of Murder, it's a tale of homicide in a rural backwater. The most versatile of today's internationally known Korean directors, Bong had his biggest success with The Host, a monster movie. But this pure light is all too effective, revealing things she'd rather not see. In Bong Joon-ho's flawlessly constructed new mystery, Mother, the title character uses maternal love to illuminate the shadowy case of her son, a murder suspect.
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