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Post by honkytonkwoman on Jul 1, 2017 9:54:23 GMT -5
We are watching soon. I'm making the kids watch it LOL
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Post by Ripley on Jul 3, 2017 12:16:16 GMT -5
I just finished watching the film- wow, searing social commentary on so many levels. I did like Steven Yeun's character K and his redemption. I liked Mija's fierce love and her fierceness in protecting Okja- at least trying.
I liked Shirley Henderson's and Giancarlo Esposito's characters.
The Jake Gyllenhall character could have been excised compleptely from the film, IMO, without creating any real plot holes. ANyone could have done the tasting and forced mating in the U.S. I egt wanting to continue mocking would-be celebrities from TV shows fo rinstance as part of the theme of celebrity and media, plus folks taking the selfies in Korea in Seoul.But I foudn th echaracter distractingly annoying when taking up screen time which could have been spent elsewhere.
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Post by Ripley on Jul 3, 2017 14:13:10 GMT -5
Slate-I didn't know Yeun was his inspiration fir K vulture_bug This article originally appeared in Vulture. "...The moment happens when the radical animal-rights group ALF (the Animal Liberation Front), headed by Jay (Paul Dano), ostensibly rescues Okja from the Mirando corporation. But what they’re really trying to do is use Okja as a mole to expose Mirando’s animal-rights abuses. To do this, they would have to hack into Okja’s monitoring system and allow the super-pig to be taken back to the lab. Jay won’t go through with the plan without Mija’s (Ahn Seo-hyun) consent, but the only way to communicate with her is through fellow ALF member K, a Korean-American character played by Steven Yeun. When they ask Mija what she wants to do, she says that all she wants is to go back to the mountains with Okja, but K lies and says that she agrees to the plan, much to the delight of his comrades. okja With that, each ALF member jumps out of the truck into the Han River below, with K the last to go. According to the subtitles, his parting words to Mija are “Mija! Try learning English. It opens new doors!” In an earlier version I watched, the subtitle read, “How’s my Korean?” What he actually says is “Mija! Also, my name is Koo Soon-bum.” okja1 It’s a flagrant mistranslation—but one that would only be apparent to those who can speak both languages. Moreover, the mistranslation is a clever subversion of the supremacy of English. The subtitle is a command to learn English—something that every Korean student has heard throughout her life—but to actually understand what K is saying, you would have to know Korean. There’s an added layer of comedy to the name itself, which has the whiff of the old country about it: “Koo Soon-bum” is sort of like a white man saying his name is “Buford Attaway.” As Yeun told me, “When he says ‘Koo Soon-bum,’ it’s funny to you if you’re Korean, because that’s a dumb name. There’s no way to translate that. That’s like, the comedy drop-off, the chasm between countries.” Bong wrote the character of K specifically with Yeun in mind, because he’s a character that only a Korean-American could play. Yeun’s performance itself is a nod to that gap; it reads differently if you know Korean. While it’s obvious that he’s a bit of a dolt, if you have the ear for the language, his failures are more apparent, because he speaks with the stiltedness of a second-generation speaker (Yeun’s actual pronunciation is a lot better). He’s not quite sure of himself, and is trying to fit into both spaces, but can’t. (This is also why the other subtitle joke that I saw, “How’s my Korean?” works in a subtler way.) Yeun said the character “speaks to the island we live on”: He was a character written for Korean-Americans..." www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2017/06/30/there_s_a_translation_joke_for_korean_americans_in_the_subtitles_of_okja.html
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Post by Ripley on Jul 4, 2017 13:11:30 GMT -5
"“Okja,” the superb new Netflix movie about a gentle giant, is a thinly veiled fable indicting capitalistic greed. In it, the Mirando Corporation ― the central enterprise that manufactures “super-pigs” to be raised for 10 years and then killed for mass consumption ― can’t be stopped, not even by militant animal rights fighters. It wasn’t always going to be that way. Bong Joon-ho, the visionary Korean filmmaker whose credits also include “Snowpiercer” and “The Host,” originally considered a more optimistic ending. In Bong’s first conceptualization of “Okja,” thousands of Animal Liberation Front members in North America banded together to “infiltrate” the New Jersey meat-processing plant where super-pigs are mere cattle to be prodded and liquidated. Together, the ALF would have “liberated every single super-pig,” Bong told HuffPost in a recent interview...." link
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Post by nana on Jul 5, 2017 15:00:51 GMT -5
My daughter, an environmental studies major focusing on sustainability, watched it last night and told me I should. She has seen so many films on factory farming and slaughterhouses I don't know how she stomachs it. I started but stopped soon in... maybe too tired, maybe not in the headspace for it. I will try again in a few days.
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Post by Starlight on Jul 9, 2017 12:37:22 GMT -5
I loved this movie. I thought the little actress who played Mija was really good. Loved seeing Steven Yeun again and got no Glenn vibes from his performance. I liked the good mix of comedy,drama and heartbreak. The stuff with the super pigs and the little pig in the ending was such a happy and sad moment. I would recommend this movie to everyone.
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Post by dandelioncherokee on Jul 9, 2017 14:07:15 GMT -5
I watched it yesterday. I really loved Mija. An interesting,capable little actress. Beautiful landscape shots.I really liked the atmosphere.I thought Steven and Paul Dano were good choices to play the characters.Knew Dano from Little Miss Sunshine,a movie I absolutely adore.I would recommend the film.The way they made it is kind of fresh.Good ideas for beautiful scenes.I thought the glass shattering scene was super awesome.
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Post by honkytonkwoman on Jul 15, 2017 9:56:37 GMT -5
We finally watched. My husband had to stop watching because he can't handle films with animals in danger (he was traumatized by Lassie as a child and he's never seen Old Yeller). He did Google the synopsis LOL. It was pretty good. I loved the scenes on the mountain and in Seoul. The little girl was great and I loved Steven.
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