A particularly expected return. Six years after the triumph of ParasiteOscar for the best film 2020, Bong Joon Ho returns this Wednesday, March 5 with Mickey 17. A science fiction comedy with Robert Pattinson that made fun of Elon Musk’s space ambitions and Donald Trump’s expansionist politics.
Shot in 2022, and repeatedly rejected due to the Hollywood strike and a long postproduction, Mickey 17 It highlights the resistance of small people against powerful, at a time of unbridled authority in many countries, as Bong Joon Ho described during the last Berlin festival.
Regrettable
Mickey 17 Portes a portrait of a young cutting scheme, Mickey (Robert Pattinson). After a muddy with a mafia, he agreed to be hired as a guinea pig of a futuristic cloning program to colonize a new galaxy by order of a transhumanist billionaire (Mark Ruffalo).
Mickey thus becomes a “replaceable”: sent to all dangerous experiences and missions (toxic gas, experimental vaccine mandate), you can “reprint” thanks to a machine and resurrect every time it dies. The situation derails when the ship arises on a frozen planet, populated by creatures.
As his successive life progresses, “dying is a habit” for him. “Mickey is a vulnerable young man and somewhat unfortunate, but who, despite the many challenges he faces, ends up surviving without being broken,” said Bong Joon Ho at a press conference in Seoul.
Ridiculous losers
Yeah Mickey 17 It doesn’t look like a traditional science fiction film, Bong Joon Ho wanted to offer a spectacular and fun film “about ridiculous losers.” “It is not a great space adventure where people shoot with lasers (…) The film is full of people who are adorably ridiculous.”
“Everything that happens to Mickey, his situation and the way he is treated in the film is political. He talks about the way we treat and respect a human being,” he said. Mickey 17 It allows Robert Pattinson to shine his position, his gestures and his voice to give life to the different versions of his role.
This role is particularly important for Robert Pattinson, who in recent years has become the specialist in the roles of antiheroes, of Spree has Principle passed The lighthouse. “I can’t imagine the movie without Rob,” he said Guardian. “I am quite proud to have thought of him for this role.”
Trump satire
While Parasite I was attacking the rich Bewovevers and inequalities in South Korean society, the villain Mickey 17 He is a narcissistic billionaire who remembers both the US president, Donald Trump and his bulky collaborator Elon Musk, the richest man in the world.
But the film was filmed long before Trump’s return to the White House. “We didn’t want someone in particular,” Mark Ruffalo told AFP. “We have seen this type of leader repeatedly during the last century.” But “three years later, this film is more relevant than it was when we filmed it.”
Mickey 17 Exit while Elon Musk, Spacex pattern who dreams of seeing to colonize Mars, occupied an unprecedented place along with Donald Trump. Mark Ruffalo’s character, who maintains his own cult and caresses the dreams of all power, also reminds him. But also to transhumanist prophecies in Vogue in the technological world.
Rampant
Mickey 17 Remember the previous Anglo -Saxon films of Bong, PikemanAdaptation of a French comic by Jean-Marc Rochette and Jacques Lob, and Okja. Two films also borrow from the type of SF, and display a sense of unbridled humor, to denounce social inequalities and domination relationships that result from it.
What to satisfy criticism? For télérama, Mickey 17 It is “a slightly crazy but charming political film.” Notice shared by Le Figaro that rents “a fresco science fiction warrior with a double reading”, a “bite brochure” full of mockery and cynicism. “
Your next movie should, like Mickey 17Surprise a news to the public. Bong Joon-Ho, who is also working in a Korean film that mixes horror and action, is already immersed in the postproduction of his next project, An animated feature film In a marine invertebrate he persuaded to suffer a … Herniated album.
Source: BFM TV
