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Okja (2017)
Directed by Bong Joon Ho
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Overview
A young girl named Mija risks everything to prevent a powerful, multi-national company from kidnapping her best friend - a massive animal named Okja.
Rated PG-13 | Length 122 minutes
Actors
Ahn Seo-hyun | Tilda Swinton | Paul Dano | Jake Gyllenhaal | Lily Collins | Steven Yeun | Giancarlo Esposito | Devon Bostick | Byun Hee-bong | Je-mun Yun | Shirley Henderson | Daniel Henshall | Choi Woo-shik | Sheena Kamal | Michael Mitton | Colm Hill | Kathryn Kirkpatrick | Jose Carias | Nancy Amelia Bell | Lee Jung-eun | Jaein Kim | Moon Choi | Jiwoong Jang | Lee Bong-ryeon | Kiseon Park | Yoon Kyung-ho | Cho Wan-ki | Han Yi-jin | Kwak Jin-seok | Jihoon Park | Jaehyuk Lee | Clayton Elliot Jones | Seoyoung Lim | Jungsook Park | Jooman Hong | Kyungwook Lim | Seungchang Lee | Byeonghee Lee | Hyunwoo Choi | Moonhak Kim | Park Keun-rok | Daehyun Kim | Gwangjae Woo | Wonjin Jang | Hyunzun Yu | Yangwon Kim | Yonghee Kim | Dylan Ratigan | Milo Shandel | Mikaela Kingsbury | Sangyoon Lee | Youngran Bae | Park Jeong-gi | Jung Ro Yoon | Woohyun Kim | Kim Chul-moo | Seo Woo-sik | Yerin Shin | Erik De Boer | Stephen Clee | Pavel Hajek | David Congourdeau Nicolas | Lucas Körmer | Seong-Bong Ahn | Timmo Polajev | Steven Garr | David Bloom | Cory Gruter-Andrew | Barbara Wallace | Frans Weterrings IV | Boyd Ferguson | Niall Cunningham | Marian Volk | Conor Reeves | Adam Auslander | Waris Ahluwalia | T. Sahara Meer | J. C. Williams | Hye-Jo Yu | Lorne Edward Oliver | Alex Kabel | Amir Ardalan Latifi | Jose Vargas | Elizabeth Urrea | Luis Javier | Phillip Garcia | Andreas Fronk | Jack Lyons | Bettina Skye | Kristoffe Brodeur | Myles Humphus | Lena Avgust | Jamar Greene | Michael D. Joseph | Eha Urbsalu | Rebecca Husain | Carl Montoya | Martin Lo Rimorin | Amber Snow | Ann Evans | Rickland Powell | Michelle Clarke-Brown | Justin McGriff | Lynn Marocola | Jason Scott Nelson
Viewing History (seen 1 time)
| Date Viewed | Device | Format | Source | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 06/29/2017 | Home Theater | Streaming | Video on Demand | 9 stars |
| (Average) 9 stars |
Viewing Notes
Tonia’s second pick. Man, this one really stabs you in the heart. Excellent film. It really does a great job of manipulating you and then making you complicit in some of the more heartbreaking events that happen. The obvious comparisons between the super pigs at the slaughterhouse and Nazi concentration camps was sobering. The fact that it takes an oversized CGI animal to make us care about the animals we eat says some unflattering things about humans and how we’ve commoditized our food.
That makes it sound like OKJA is gloomy and depressing throughout, which it isn’t. That stuff is nicely offset by some pretty funny scenes punctuated by great, odd performances by Swinton and Gyllenhaal especially.
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