Bong Joon-ho is well known for his deft handling of generic conventions; he not only understands and respects their limitations but know h...

"Either physically handicapped or psychologically traumatized (sometimes both), many of the characters emblematized the period's f...

"Korea's emasculated and traumatic men pour out onto the road. The characters are visually encased with overwhelming landscapes a...

1 Introduction  “There is a sight of horror that invokes the loss of… …memory and sanity.” Kim Kyung-hyun, one of the foremost schola...