This story contains mild spoilers for Mickey 17.
When the indie distributor Neon recently won their second Best Picture Oscar with Anora, it also marked the fifth anniversary of their first win: for Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite, a South Korean thriller about a lower-class family that cons their way into a wealthy family’s life. Now Bong’s follow-up film is finally in theaters, where it is poised to both become his highest-grossing movie in the U.S. and lose a bunch of money for Warner Bros., who for the past year has appeared ambivalent bordering on reluctant about actually releasing it. In this big-studio limbo and in the contents of the film itself, Mickey 17, starring Robert Pattinson as an “expendable” worker subject to seemingly endless on-the-job deaths and corporate-funded rebirths, is Bong’s most American film yet.
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