A year and a half from the Oscar for Parasite and just over two months after the position of president of the jury that he will cover at the next Venice Film Festival, Bong Joon-ho returns to the cinema with a film made in 2009 arriving in Italy only now, thanks to PFA Films and Emme Cinematography. Is called Mother, is his fourth feature film and is a somewhat Hitchcockian thriller starring a woman who tries to prove the innocence of her son, in his opinion unjustly accused of the murder of a minor.
The film, which sees the actress Kim Hye-ja as an absolute protagonist, a mask of pain, resolve and tenacity, she tells of a love bordering on the pathological, but also an obsession rooted in time.
It is the visceral relationship that binds the mother to the mentally retarded son Do-joon (Won Bin) the pivot around which it develops Mother, a story that begins as a classic thriller, with the parent who is committed to using any means to exonerate his creature, too vulnerable to survive the wickedness of the world alone, and then turn into a psychological thriller that will lead the viewer to try the same astonishment he had felt looking at Parasite. In a deeply indolent Korea, where everyone seems to be either hiding something or proving fallacious and incompetent in pursuing a goal, Bong Joon-ho once again leads us into a dysfunctional family which shows how far maternal instinct can go when alerted.
“Everyone has one mother and everyone has a clear idea of what one is mother: is the person that each of us loves the most, the kindest, and at the same time the most irritating. There are many feelings that are opposed when dealing with this figure and this is because the relationship between a child and his mother it is the basis of all human relationships. Countless novels, films and television shows have come close to the mother figure, but I wanted to explore it in a way that was mine, peculiar, functional to discovering where I could take it on a cinematic level, and then push it to the extreme “he said on his film Joon-ho who, to be honest, is working on a new film that, according to him, will remember a lot Mother. A story that delves into dark forces that, perhaps, it is not the case to awaken, a journey into disturbing feelings that reveal one of the themes so dear to the director: the obsession that leads to tragedy, the apparent naivety that proves to be a sick worm to kill.
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