After all the dramas and “meaningful cinema” I’ve been watching lately, I thought I’d take a break and watch something lighthearted. But leave it to Bong Joon Ho, Oscar winning director of “Parasite,” even when he’s directing a sci-fi farce there’s always something just under the surface that’s not farcical at all. 

Mickey and his business partner get into trouble with a loan shark on Earth, so Mickey signs up as an “expendable” in order to qualify for a colony ship leaving to begin a new life somewhere out of the reach of the loan shark. But it turns out that the same intelligence that got him in money trouble has led him to an equally brilliant job as a human test-crash dummy. Instead of slowly being dismembered, he gets to die and then get “reprinted” with all memories intact over and over again. Not fun and everyone treats him like he’s not fully human. 

It make me wonder, how many lives does one need to sacrifice for others to safely live their one “over-too-soon” life? Also, to horribly mix my metaphors, it’s almost like there’s a very good reason why we got kicked out of the Garden of Eden. No matter how smart we think we are, no matter how amazing our technology becomes, it also becomes equally clear that we should not be “gifted” with a life that never ends. Sometimes “more” is not “better.” It’s kind of like, if your days feel meaningless or pointless than just having more of them is more of a burden than a solution. See what I mean by lighthearted? Enjoy. 😎

[Movie viewed on 2025-03-18 at Orleans Cinemark]. 

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