In the tool box of all good sci-fi director: inside and author: Inside there is a wonderful little instrument called dystopia. To deal with it wants to be learned. If you hammer too hard on the audience, it becomes dull and no longer reacts. If you put it too carefully, the message passes the goal.
Fortunately, Oscar winner Bong Joon-Ho is not only practiced in dealing with the dystopian tool, he is A genius in creating goosebumps-worthy worlds. You can currently convince yourself of this at Netflix twice: In the practical double feature, both his bone-hard sci-fi thriller snowpiercer and the sugar-graused dystopy from Okja run.
Snowpiercer takes us into an icy horror train, Okja in the big city jungle
The title -giving snow piercer is the last bastion of mankind in 2031 – a armored train that circles the frozen globe without ever stopping. The fight against climate change went terribly wrong and everything outside the train is uninhabitable. In the meantime, a cruel box system has formed in the wagons.
The further back the wagon, the poorer the people in it and the more they have to work for the drive of the train. But the anger and suffering of the lowest caste finally breaks. Curtis (Chris Evans) Appeals a revolution. For him and his colleagues, it is important to work up to the top of the train to the train leader Wilford (Ed Harris) – a struggle for life and death.
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In contrast, the little Mija (Seo-Hyeon Ahn) lives almost idyllically in the jungle in Okja. For years, she and her grandfather have been able to raise an experimental animal from the Mirando Corporation laboratories: Okja, a mixture of pig, hippopotamus and, their faithful, lovable character, dog. Okja and Mija are best friends – but the Mirando Corporation calls for their property.
Okja should return to the laboratories and large breeding facilities and lay the foundation for a new slaughter animal breed. Mija Must watch helplessly how Okja is kidnapped into the big city. Mija travels after a spurium to save her. She finds an ally in the guerrilla environmentalist Jay (Paul Dano) and is confronted with the horror of industrial slaughter.
The sci-fi films at Netflix deliver two fundamentally different but equal dystopias
The goosebumps in snow piercer are double guaranteed. On the one hand, the world is staged so impressively and haptically that its cold crawls under your skin. On the other hand, he and his characters ask us and his characters before moral and philosophical questions that anyone should never have to answer. All of this in front of one bizarre, contradictory backdrop of decadence and misery.
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Snowpiercer carries his dystopia openly in front of him. Lives the shit of mankind and the gloom in the world to the fullest and is still wonderfully abstruse. In contrast, the story of Okja, which starts as a jungle adventure and continued as a big city-Heist mission, is almost harmless. But Bong Joon-Ho would not be a bad super genius if his okja dystopia were not the perfidious.
Here adults, cropped reason is exchanged for the view of children’s eyes. With this we have to endure the misdeeds of the world. This ensures, especially in contrast to the fairytale, childish imagination unique gray. But is also incredibly exciting and wonderfully grotesque. And really browsing everyone.
So if you can tolerate the full pack of dystopia, sci-fi and psycho-trip Joon-Ho Bongs double dose at Netflix well cared for.