https://vo.rs/tags/bong-joon-ho/Latest from the Bong Joon-Ho desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Sun, 18 Jan 2026 13:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/bong-joon-ho-genre-as-scalpel/<p>When <em>Parasite</em> swept the 2020 Oscars — the first film not in English to win Best Picture — a lot of viewers met Bong Joon-ho for the first time and assumed they had discovered a new auteur. They had discovered a twenty-year veteran at the peak of a project he had been running since his debut. Every Bong film is a genre film that turns, halfway through, into an autopsy of a class system. The monster movie is about incompetent government. The murder mystery is about a nation that cannot see its own poor. The heist is about who gets to ride at the front of the train. He picks up the tools of popular cinema — the ones that put bodies in seats — and uses them as a scalpel to open society up and show you the organs.</p>Sun, 18 Jan 2026 13:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/memories-of-murder-bongs-unsolved-case-as-national-wound/<p>Long before <em>Parasite</em> swept the Oscars, Bong Joon-ho announced himself with his second feature, <em>Memories of Murder</em>, released in South Korea in 2003. It is a police procedural about a real string of murders that had gone unsolved for over a decade, and it remains, for my money, the finest thing he has ever made — a film that starts as a rural whodunit, curdles into a study of institutional rot, and ends on an image so precisely aimed that it reframes everything before it.</p>Tue, 28 Nov 2023 11:00:00 +0000