Extreme Characters and Perverse Relationships in a Realistic Context

Taking Bong Joon-Ho’s Film ‘Mother’ as an Example

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.220502.011How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Mother; Extremes; Crime; Mother-child relationship; Symbiosis

Abstract

Based on the film Mother directed by Korean director Bong Joon-ho, the study critically analyzes the extreme and paranoid characteristics of the leading role Hye-ja, who is willing to commit crimes to save her mentally handicapped son from prison; this has sparked an intense discussion and public examination of the social underclass suffering from the hardships of life. Under the backdrop of the lack of patriarchal patriarchy in Korea, the study also aims to reflect the perverse symbiotic relationship between the mother, Hye-ja, and her son, Do-joon.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC 4.0 license.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - DAOYI CHENG
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/05/14
TI  - Extreme Characters and Perverse Relationships in a Realistic Context
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Comprehensive Art and Cultural Communication (CACC 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 45
EP  - 49
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220502.011
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220502.011
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