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Okja

by mr. hipster May 3, 2020
May 3, 2020
Okja
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Okja
Genre: Fantasy Adventure
Director: Bong Joon-Ho
Release Year: 2017
Runtime: 2h 0min

Apparently this site has just become a Bong Joon Ho tribute site of late. But, my god, this is a strange movie. It’s all over the place in terms of tone and approach. At times it’s a black comedy and fantasy adventure, but is clearly also a “message” movie. I’m just not quite sure what that message is.

I suppose I’ll try to explain what’s going on here. There is this company that does something that maybe involves meat production? Although that’s never really clear. The new CEO and self-styled environmentalist of said company, Lucy Mirando (Tilda Swinton), announces that they’ve found this amazing super pig in some village in South America. In order to introduce said super pig to the world, they’re sending 26 of them around the world to different farms to be raised. And in ten years, they’ll announce who raised the best super pig. I know; what the hell, right?

So one of those pigs is raised in the mountains of Korea for ten years by an old man and his precocious granddaughter. That pig is named Okja. For some reason this blue ribbon panel of judges from Mirando show up in person to this isolated farm for the first time to check out Okja only days before before the winner is announced. The pig has some electronic surveillance info that it carries around, so biodata has been sent back to the corporation, but whatever. As we know is going to happen, Okja “wins” and is taken from the farm to be paraded around as the best pig for the company.

Now, what is a super pig, you may ask? It’s essentially a pig that at different times seems to be either the size of an elephant, but at other times looks to be about the size of a hippo. Whatever the case, what or why would a company raise pigs? Duh, for bacon and pork chops. This never dawns on the girl somehow. And seemingly never dawns on anyone else either. I mean, c’mon. It’s a pig. And I understand that Okja is specifically the little girl’s only friend and is demonstratively very smart, but nobody in this endeavor should be surprised that a company that presumably manufactures meat is growing giant pigs for… meat.

And so begins the adventure. The young girl chases Okja around the world trying to get her friend back. In the mix is an oddly toothless animal rights organization that actually has the same name as a very not toothless animal rights organization, ALF. Its leader, played by Paul Dano, is a strange mixture of competent leader, weirdo goofball and violent crazy person. It’s also unclear what exactly their motivation is, how big their organization is and how they’re able to pull off some of the things they pull off.

Tilda Swinton does her characature Swinton thing, wearing fake teeth, doing a wacky accent and just being a general crazy person. Not unlike her character in Snowpiercer. Depsite its clownishness, it’s always fun to watch her. But Gyllenhaal, who plays what amounts to a super-amped-up Steve Irwin, is unbearable. He talks in this high voice and is constantly moving and contorting his body and face in a really uncomfortable way. I have no idea if it was his choice to be this annoying and horrible or if Bong told him to be that person. He ends up feeling like a cross between Steve Martin from The Jerk, Ace Ventura and Rip Taylor. It’s horrendous and ruins large sections of the film.

The narrative wends its way from a Pete’s Dragon feel, through bio terrorism, to a commentary on modern marketing, to this kind of dystopian alternative future thing that ends up reminding me of Delicatessen or some such Euro film. It’s all pretty scattered and disjointed and very, very curious. Like Bong’s other films I’ve seen, he seems more interested in exploring themes than his narratives making much sense (ignoring how people and things move through time and space), but they are always thought-provoking and interesting to look at. There are so many plot holes that it’s not even worth going into. So if you don’t care much for technical detail or realism, this is your kind of film. Also, if you are a meat eater, you may change your mind after this. And maybe that’s the whole point after all.

2017Bong Joon HoDevon BostickFantasy AdventureGiancarlo EspositoJake GyllenhaalPaul DanoSteven YeunTilda SwintonWoo-sik Choi
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      Good / Bad Commercial
      The More You Know: How to Pronounce “Comfortable”…

      June 10, 2025

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      June 3, 2025

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      The Residence

      May 30, 2025

      Television Reviews
      Your Friends & Neighbors: Season 1

      July 3, 2025

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      The Last of Us: Season 2

      June 24, 2025

      Television Reviews
      MobLand: Season 1

      June 13, 2025

      Television Reviews
      The Studio: Season 1

      June 3, 2025

      Television Reviews
      The Residence

      May 30, 2025

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      Zero Day

      April 30, 2025

      Good / Bad Commercial
      The More You Know: How to Pronounce “Comfortable”…

      June 10, 2025

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      Bad Commercial: Mattress Firm “Jumbled Up”

      August 10, 2023

      Good / Bad Commercial
      Good Commercial: JUBLIA “Dad’s Toenails”

      February 20, 2023

      Good / Bad Commercial
      Bad Commercial: J.G. Wentworth “Living at Home”

      December 19, 2021

      Good / Bad Commercial
      Bad Commercial: Apple iPhone 12 “Fumble”

      April 15, 2021

      Good / Bad Commercial
      Good Commercial: GEICO “Tag Team Helps With Dessert”

      March 15, 2021

  • Music
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      Album Reviews
      Turnstile: Never Enough

      July 8, 2025

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      Lifeguard: Ripped and Torn

      June 28, 2025

      Album Reviews
      Cameron Winter: Heavy Metal

      June 17, 2025

      Album Reviews
      Mclusky: the world is still here and so…

      June 16, 2025

      Album Reviews
      Origami Angel: Feeling Not Found

      June 12, 2025

      Album Reviews
      PUP: Who Will Look After the Dogs?

      June 2, 2025

      Album Reviews
      Turnstile: Never Enough

      July 8, 2025

      Album Reviews
      Lifeguard: Ripped and Torn

      June 28, 2025

      Album Reviews
      Cameron Winter: Heavy Metal

      June 17, 2025

      Album Reviews
      Mclusky: the world is still here and so…

      June 16, 2025

      Album Reviews
      Origami Angel: Feeling Not Found

      June 12, 2025

      Album Reviews
      PUP: Who Will Look After the Dogs?

      June 2, 2025

      The Music List
      The Grunge Diaspora

      August 15, 2024

      The Music List
      I Still Own a Lot of CDs

      June 13, 2024

      The Music List
      Top Listens 2023

      January 1, 2024

      The Music List
      In Defense of: OMC’s “How Bizarre”

      July 18, 2021

      The Music List
      Top 25 Influential Rock Albums

      May 1, 2020

      The Music List
      In Defense Of: Ruben Studdard’s “Sorry 2004”

      December 29, 2019

      Concert Reviews
      The Get Up Kids @ Starland Ballroom

      February 27, 2025

      Concert Reviews
      The Dirty Nil @ White Eagle Hall

      January 26, 2025

      Concert Reviews
      The Beths @ White Eagle Hall

      September 26, 2024

      Concert Reviews
      Pearl Jam @ MSG

      September 9, 2024

      Concert Reviews
      Cloud Nothings @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

      May 15, 2024

      Concert Reviews
      Band of Horses @ The Wellmont Theater

      February 13, 2024

  • Movies
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      Mountainhead

      July 4, 2025

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      Fountain of Youth

      June 24, 2025

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      A Different Man

      June 10, 2025

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      Problemista

      May 22, 2025

      Movie Reviews
      Flipside

      May 4, 2025

      Movie Reviews
      The Gorge

      March 2, 2025

      Movie Reviews
      A Real Pain

      January 31, 2025

  • Books
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      Trust

      June 19, 2025

      Book Reviews
      Razorblade Tears

      May 24, 2025

      Book Reviews
      The Plot

      March 14, 2025

      Book Reviews
      Maximum Bob

      February 17, 2025

      Book Reviews
      The Sympathizer

      January 6, 2025

      Book Reviews
      The Zone of Interest

      July 12, 2024

      Book Reviews
      Klara and the Sun

      April 13, 2024

  • Podcasts
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      The Wedding Scammer

      March 1, 2025

      Podcast Reviews
      Search Engine

      November 27, 2024

      Podcast Reviews
      Hysterical

      August 30, 2024

      Podcast Reviews
      60 Songs That Explain the ’90s

      March 31, 2024

      Podcast Reviews
      Otherworld

      February 29, 2024

      Podcast Reviews
      Behind the Bastards

      February 13, 2024

      Podcast Reviews
      Time Crisis

      January 26, 2024

  • Booze & Grub
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      Seoul Bistro

      July 4, 2025

      Booze & Grub Reviews
      Ralph’s Pizzeria and Italian Restaurant

      June 27, 2025

      Booze & Grub Reviews
      CAVA – 350 Hudson

      June 19, 2025

      Booze & Grub Reviews
      Rooster’s Nashville Hot Chicken

      June 18, 2025

      Booze & Grub Reviews
      Oso Felipe

      June 6, 2025

      Booze & Grub Reviews
      Mambo Cuban Restaurant & Lounge Harrison

      May 23, 2025

      Booze & Grub Reviews: NYC
      CAVA – 350 Hudson

      June 19, 2025

      Booze & Grub Reviews: NYC
      Westville Hudson

      April 25, 2025

      Booze & Grub Reviews: NYC
      Five Guys – Midtown West

      January 25, 2025

      Booze & Grub Reviews: NYC
      Jaz Indian Cuisine

      December 23, 2024

      Booze & Grub Reviews: NYC
      Just Salad – Hudson Square

      November 13, 2024

      Booze & Grub Reviews: NYC
      Quality Pizza Co. Midtown

      September 10, 2024

      Booze & Grub Reviews: NJ
      Seoul Bistro

      July 4, 2025

      Booze & Grub Reviews: NJ
      Ralph’s Pizzeria and Italian Restaurant

      June 27, 2025

      Booze & Grub Reviews: NJ
      Rooster’s Nashville Hot Chicken

      June 18, 2025

      Booze & Grub Reviews: NJ
      Oso Felipe

      June 6, 2025

      Booze & Grub Reviews: NJ
      Mambo Cuban Restaurant & Lounge Harrison

      May 23, 2025

      Booze & Grub Reviews: NJ
      SGD Dubu So Gong Dong Tofu & BBQ…

      May 9, 2025

      The NYC Booze & Grub Graveyard
      NYC Booze & Grub Graveyard: Gone Before Their…

      August 9, 2022

      The NYC Booze & Grub Graveyard
      The Press Box Restaurant & Pub

      August 3, 2021

      The NYC Booze & Grub Graveyard
      Natureworks – Midtown

      May 6, 2021

      The NYC Booze & Grub Graveyard
      The National Bar & Dining Rooms

      April 10, 2021

      The NYC Booze & Grub Graveyard
      Hillstone – Midtown

      March 5, 2021

      The NYC Booze & Grub Graveyard
      Connolly’s Pub & Restaurant – 5th Ave.

      February 12, 2021

      The NJ Booze & Grub Graveyard
      NJ Booze & Grub Graveyard: Gone Before Their…

      July 21, 2024

      The NJ Booze & Grub Graveyard
      Scala del Nonna

      February 15, 2023

      The NJ Booze & Grub Graveyard
      Diesel & Duke – Montclair

      January 30, 2023

      The NJ Booze & Grub Graveyard
      Ruthie’s Bar-B-Q & Pizza

      September 14, 2021

      The NJ Booze & Grub Graveyard
      Junior’s Cheesesteaks & Shakes

      December 21, 2020

      The NJ Booze & Grub Graveyard
      Vanillamore

      June 13, 2020

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