South Korean director Bong Joon-ho's new sci-fi dark comedy, 'Mickey 17', starring Robert Pattinson, features a villain based on past dictators. Bong Joon-ho, known for his Oscar-winning film 'Parasite', drew inspiration from history for his character, acknowledging the cyclical nature of political corruption. The film, which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival, explores themes of class disparity and the ethical implications of scientific advancements.
South Korean director Bong Joon-ho's villain in Mickey 17 , a demagogic politician played by Mark Ruffalo, was based on past dictators, but might seem familiar to viewers because 'history always repeats itself', the Oscar winner said in Berlin, Germany. '(The villain) has, in a comical way, all the faces of the bad politicians we've experienced,' he told journalists via a translator on Saturday at the Berlin Film Festival.
Bong made history at the 2020 Oscars when Parasite, a dark social satire about the gap between rich and poor in modern Seoul, became the first non-English language film to win the Best Picture award, the movie industry's highest honour. His new sci-fi dark comedy starring English actor Robert Pattinson is being shown in the festival's Special non-competition section. 'I made this character drawing my inspiration from the past, and as history always repeats itself, it might seem like I'm referring to someone in the present,' Bong said. Based on the 2022 sci-fi novel Mickey7 by Edward Ashton, the film follows Pattinson as the working-class Mickey Barnes, who unknowingly signs up to make his living by repeatedly dying. 'Although it's a story of the future, it seems like a story that could happen in the present or the past,' Bong said. For young people in the audience, what is now science fiction could one day be a situation they experience, he said. The director added that Mickey 17 is his first love story, and that it was his life goal to make films of all genres, with one possible exception. Mickey 17, which also stars Toni Collette, Naomi Ackie and Steven Yeun, begins its cinema rollout on Feb 28 in South Korea and other countries from Mar 5
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