TheParasitedirector on the Trump parallels and optimism in his new movie,Mickey 17.
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Bong Joon Ho considers himself an optimist, even if its not exactly obvious from his work.
I just felt so bad for Mickey, he said.
Hes quite close to my sons age.
I wanted him to not be destroyed by everything.
Still, he was quick to point out that the films final sequence isnt entirely upbeat.
Bong intended the unsettling dread of this moment to linger through the cheerier scenes that followed.
I wanted to end the film with this sense of anxiety that this nightmare can always repeat itself.
Just in the U.S. alone, Donald Trump was elected president for a second term.
There are people who want dictatorship.
Ive seen those people up close.
Thats why we have these dictators using the political system to go into power.
We have these dictators who are elected through voting, not through a coup.
Things are now mostly back to normal, and Im quite proud of it.
Were now in 2024 AD.
We have to ask ourselves how and why.
The lower your self-worth, the more guilt you feel.
Sometimes I find myself doing the same thing.
Technology is very tempting.
But that didnt work out.
Everyones competing out of this anxiety and its going at a crazy speed.
And who knows what will come out of all of this?
Bong may not make movies about heroes, but, he jokes, sometimes you need one.
We have to have John Connor.
