Hirokazu Kore-eda has spent much of his career waxing lyrical in makeshift family units. shoplifter When nobody knowsHe continues to explore these concepts. brokerthis time in South Korea instead of his native Japan.
If you offer a spot at squid gamemost characters broker I will probably sign up. Song Kang Homost remembered as the lazy type Parasite When the host, you play Sang-hyun, a dry cleaner who is facing high gambling debts. He also has a side job as a pastor of Busan House Church and has dabbled in human trafficking by leaving babies in baby boxes at churches. Dongsu (Kang Dong Won, Train Presents to Busan: The PeninsulaAn orphan who grew up to work in the church), as Sang-hyun’s accomplice, erases the surveillance footage in the baby box.
So-yeon (Lee Ji-eun, better known as K-pop superstar IU) left her child in a baby box in a torrential downpour one night, only to return the next day with a change of heart. . Dong-soo initially pretends to be ignorant of her baby’s whereabouts, but she eventually leads her to Sang-hyun, fearing she will contact her authorities. Once she finds out about their plan to sell her child, So-young wants to join the action and help him find a good home. drive to meet a prospect atin the meantime, Two police officers from the Women’s Youth Division (Bae Doona and Lee Jooyoung) are hard at work on the trail, waiting to catch the famous “broker” for his deeds.
like the characters in shoplifter, Sang-hyun, Dong-soo, her toddler, So-yeon, and eight-year-old Hye-jin (Im Seung-soo) from an orphanage who stowed away in a van form a highly functional surrogate family in reality. As they ponder how to maintain their charade, they tacitly accept that their good time together is gone. It’s there to verbalize the inexpressible. This is meant as character proof that these people are deeply, deeply sane, regardless of how they act out of despair.
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Songs can now be trusted in roles you can play in your sleep. A more interesting choice is to cast IU against type. You could say she’s her K-pop Taylor Swift.When in doubt, compare IU’s covers palette and swift’s 1989Both artists have written their own music, dominated the charts and boasted good-two-shoes public images. Cat When Amsterdam IU’s playing an unmarried mother is almost unfathomable.
visually, broker It’s a starting point for Kore-eda, who works here with a Korean crew instead of frequent collaborators like cinematographers Yutaka Yamazaki and Mikiya Takimoto. The film also looks much better on the small screen, a sign that streaming has improved prospects for his platform. Overall, the film has a deliberate pacing worthy of a road movie.
Kore-eda started his career as a documentary filmmaker, but his position on social issues is far from neutral. He admires the resilience of those who have been mistreated in life. broker.