Andrés Arconada recommends ‘Mickey 17’, science fiction with the creator of ‘Parasitos’ and Robert Pattinson

This week’s criticism is dedicated to Mickey 17directed by a cult director praised by many and who in turn has enough detractors. I have to confess that the filmmaker Bong joon-ho Always awake my curiosity and sometimes I recognize that it surprises me. Worldwide recognized for your film ParasitesJoon-Ho gets fully into this American production and addresses the science fiction genre without abandoning his usual style and his, say, obsessions. It is true that Mickey 17 has a lighter tone than his previous film, but this does not mean that it is not equally incisive.

One of his speeches is the class struggle, something that takes a special ship on this occasion. Mickey 17 It is still a Fable constantly adorned with a lot of humor, yes, sordid and dark humor. The film’s approach is original, a man who dies again and again and that is basically his job. Based on Edward Ashton’s novel, he tells us the story of Mickey, a poor man, a born loser, who is dragged into a mission to colonize a planet and its inhabitants. To do this You will have no choice but to die again and again. A miserable work subject to the worst conditions as it will have to assume the most complicated and dangerous missions. No matter how many times he dies, nor that he almost always does it wildly, since thanks to a 3D printer he will return to life and start again.

A dystopian satire

The problem arises in his death number 17, when when they died they create at Mickey 18. The problem? There cannot be two the same. That is the start of the film that is still a dystopian satire where we attend an acid portrait of the unworthy limits to which work precariousness leads With a protagonist who has accepted such a particular, or peculiar job, to call it in some way. Mickey 17 is also a story about people who find love, connection and community in desperate circumstances. According to its director, this narration raises us as a cry in which something is expressed as that we all deserve better conditions to exist.

Very remarkable is the impeccable performance of all actors, such as Mark Ruffalo o Collette tones. But if you have to highlight one, it is its protagonist, a Robert Pattinson Spectacular, giving lives to these ‘expendable’, a name that workers who agree to die again and again. Very remarkable is its interpretation at the time when Mickey 17 and 18 live together. Pattinson has to give life to a moderate mickey and a totally opposite one, confronted on the screen and with a double performance that surprises. Science fiction lovers and fans of the actor will surely like and, of course, who follow the South Korean filmmaker, who missed.

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