“Class is a theme that penetrates our times,” director Bong Joon Ho said during a special Directors Dialogue at the New York Film Festival. He was discussing his own unsettling haves-vs.-have-nots satire “Parasite,” but also the work of his filmmaking peers around the world, including fellow Korean director Lee Chang-dong‘s “Burning,” Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda‘s “Shoplifters” and even American Jordan Peele‘s “Us.” Watch Bong’s entire hour-long filmmaking discussion above.
“I think it’s natural for artists to be sensitive to the times that they live in,” Bong explained. “It’s not as if me, Jordan Peele, Lee Chang-dong and Hirokazu all gathered at the Un headquarters … to strategize about creating films on class. I think every artist just responded to their times in their own ways, and that’s why we’ve had such strong films in the past couple of years.” Take also Bong’s 2013 class allegory “Snowpiercer,...
“I think it’s natural for artists to be sensitive to the times that they live in,” Bong explained. “It’s not as if me, Jordan Peele, Lee Chang-dong and Hirokazu all gathered at the Un headquarters … to strategize about creating films on class. I think every artist just responded to their times in their own ways, and that’s why we’ve had such strong films in the past couple of years.” Take also Bong’s 2013 class allegory “Snowpiercer,...
- 10/22/2019
- by Daniel Montgomery
- Gold Derby
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