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Mar 26, 2010
Out of Frame: Mother
In his last feature, The Host, director Bong Joon-ho gave the Godzilla legend a 21st century Korean makeover, conjuring a mutated creature out of the deep with the help of American-instigated environmental damage. There’s just as surely a monster lurking in the frames of his latest, though its actual form is less defined. It’s not the mother of the title, even if she is fussy, controlling, and monstrously overbearing in her love for her…