646f9e108c A mother desperately searches for the killer who framed her son for a girl's horrific murder.
In a province in Pusan, South Korea, the slow Yoon Do-joon is a young man overprotected by his mother that works with acupuncture and herbs and does not like his worthless and reckless friend Jin-tae. When a Mercedes runs over Do-joon, Jin-tae follows the hit-and-run driver with Do-joon and find the car parked in a golf club. Jin-tae breaks the side mirror of the car and Do-joon collects golf balls lost in a lake. When they see the cart with the driver and passengers of the Mercedes, there is a fight and they end in the police station. During the night, Do-joon walks to the bar Manhattan to meet Jin-tae that does not arrive; when Do-joon returns home, he sees the easy Moon Ah-jung walking alone in an alley and entering in an abandoned house. On the next morning, Ah-jung is found dead on the terrace of the house. The incompetent detectives find a golf ball near her body and they conclude that Do-joon is the killer. Doo- joon is arrested; signs a confession and is charged of murder. However, his mother follows her instincts believing that her son is innocent and the scapegoat of the incompetent police department and seeks the truth disclosing a dreadful reality.
As good as his early crime thriller, &quot;Memories of Murder&quot;, Boon Joon-ho&#39;s &quot;Mother&quot; takes the archetypal tale of the village idiot wrongly convicted of a crime, and tags it on to a grotesque family tragedy. Actress Kim Hye-ja is the film&#39;s titular Mother, a woman who once tried to abort her son. Because of this failed abortion, her son grew up with mental disabilities, which in turn led to him being falsely (we assume) convicted of a crime. Kim blames herself for this arrest, and so embarks on a feverish quest to prove her son&#39;s innocence.<br/><br/>Boon Joon-ho paints Kim as a force of nature, maternalism writ large, every ounce of her being invested into setting her son free. Several scenes – consider moments in which she sleeps with her son, and others in which she pours liquid into his mouth as he urinates – suggest a creepy dependency or bond between the duo. As penance for attempting to terminate his life, Kim keeps the boy unnaturally close, forever doting on him.<br/><br/>To say anything more about the plot would be the spoil the film&#39;s big, climactic surprise. Suffice to say that Kim becomes increasingly tortured, blameful and insane, the consequences of the failed abortion tearing her life and mind irrevocably apart. The film ends with a sequence resemblant of the jitterbug sequence in Lynch&#39;s &quot;Mulholland Drive&quot;, Kim on a bus, dancing amidst a group of other grotesque mothers. They&#39;re all proud of their sons; she&#39;s partying as a form of denial.<br/><br/>The film reverses Boon Joon-ho&#39;s earlier film, &quot;The Host&quot;, another tale of family commitment and love gone bad. That film centred on a father&#39;s love for his young daughter. Here we have the opposite. Though &quot;Mother&#39;s&quot; last act revelation packs a wallop, it also means that &quot;Mother&quot; is one of those films which plays less well the second time around.<br/><br/>As with all of Boon Joon-ho&#39;s films, &quot;Mother&quot; looks terrific. Boon Joon-ho films spaces well, makes excellent use of darkness, rain, night, architecture, tight locations, piles on the ambiance and films the coolest police detectives outside Huston and Mann, all either sharply dressed, well posed and muttering terse, faux-naturalistic dialogue or tired, chubby, disinterested goof-balls. Because of Boon Joon-ho&#39;s skill at nurturing ambiance, it&#39;s the film&#39;s &quot;detective moments&quot; which play best; like a moody, infectious noir gone off the rails. The film&#39;s central, maternal tragedy is less interesting, though Boon keeps the twists and turns flowing fast and shoots everything unconventionally enough to make the journey worthwhile.<br/><br/>8/10 – Good genre film-making. Worth two viewings.
&quot;Mother&quot; (or &quot;Madeo&quot;) was actually a movie that I was looking forward to watching because of all the good reviews and praise the movie had received, plus it was directed by Joon-ho Bong, who directed &quot;The Host&quot; which was off the charts.<br/><br/>I must say that I did find the story interesting; it being about a mother who sets out to prove the innocence of her slightly mentally disabled son for a murder that she believes he did not do. So we get to see how far this mother (played by Hye-ja Kim) would go for her son (played by Bin Won). And she uproots her normally quiet, traditional repetitive routine life and sets out on a perilous investigation into a web of lies and cover ups.<br/><br/>The acting in the movie was actually really, really nice, especially the lead role played by Hye-ja Kim. She was really putting on an amazing performance as the mother. But also Bin Won who played the son did a tremendous job.<br/><br/>However, despite the fact that the story really was interesting and compelling, then it moved forward in a fairly slow speed, which made it seem that you got almost nowhere in a very long time. That slowed down the movie and brought down the enjoyment a notch for me. Don&#39;t get me wrong, the movie is really nicely directed and nicely shot, but it just could have used a bit more octane to make it step up in gear. And this is the reason for the mediocre rating I am giving it, because the movie could have achieved so much more had they opted for more speed.<br/><br/>&quot;Mother&quot; is a rather enjoyable character-driven crime mystery movie of the better end. The plot was nicely throughout and nicely executed on the screen, leaving us to wonder who had done it and offered us bits and pieces of information allowing us to try to solve the puzzle ourselves. So if you like these kind of movies and don&#39;t mind it being in Korean, then you should definitely give &quot;Mother&quot; a chance.<br/><br/>I must admit that I was changing theories a couple of times along the way as to who actually did it. And when you do find out what really happened, that was a bombshell for me. I had not seen that coming, not in a million years. And I loved the way that the movie came full circle, ending up just shortly after where we were introduced to the movie. However, I must say that the ending that Joon-ho Bong decided to go with was lost on me. I didn&#39;t really catch the symbolism in that ending.
Again as with Bong's earlier films, Mother is a genre exercise that honors convention, yet weaves around it whenever possible. Bong carefully turns Mother into a classic gumshoe tale, with red herrings, interrogations, and moments of sublime suspense.
A doting mother (<a href="/name/nm1067547/">Hye-ja Kim</a>) of a mentally-challenged young man is devastated when son Yoon Do-joon (<a href="/name/nm1047193/">Won Bin</a>) is arrested for the murder of a young girl, Moon Ah-jung (<a href="/name/nm3832104/">Hee-ra Mun</a>), and tricked into signing a confession. Certain that her son is innocent, Mother begins her own investigation into Ah-Jung&#39;s background and the events that happened on the night of the murder. Mother was filmed from a screenplay co-written by South Korean screenwriters Park Eun-kyo and Bong Joon-ho (who also directed the movie). Mother worked as an herbalist in a store and performed illegal acupuncture treatments (she was not licensed) on the side. Her employer wanted Mother to lie to customers about the inferior quality herbs they imported from China. To force Mother into compliance, the employer reminded her of how her illegal acupuncture practice would reflect upon the business and upon her husband, some high-ranking official. &quot;Deodeok root&quot; is the root of the Codonopsis lanceolata plant, known in English as &quot;bonnet bellflower.&quot; It is a popular ingredient in Korean cooking and can be found in various dishes, such as kimchi, vegetable salads, pancakes, etc. &quot;Gugija&quot; (Lycium species) is known under several English names, such as &quot;Chinese matrimony vine&quot;, &quot;wolfberries&quot;, and &quot;goji berries.&quot; The red berries often make their way into soups, salads, and herbal teas. Mother contends that it&#39;s good for Do-joon&#39;s virility. Ah-jung&#39;s two boyfriends explain that she took photos with her &quot;pervert&quot; phone of everyone with whom she had sex, so it&#39;s reasonable to conclude that the junkman was one of her customers. This is best evidenced in the scene where the junkman explains how he came to be in the abandoned house. He is seen spreading a mat on the floor and measuring out the rice with which he intends to pay Ah-jung (aka &quot;Rice Cake Girl&quot;). One of Ah-jung&#39;s girlfriends had the skill to silence the sound of a cellphone when it took photos. Ah-jung used it to take photos of her sex partners. Several explanations have been offered, including that she was a single mother and very poor, but the most generally-accepted explanation is that Mother couldn&#39;t bear to live with Do-joon&#39;s retardation so she decided to take both of their lives. She chose to use an insecticide called Lone Star, but it was too weak and only made them sick for two days. Some viewers have entertained the possibility that it was the poison that actually caused Do-joon&#39;s brain damage. Since the film does not offer an explanation, it&#39;s up to each viewer to decide which scenario makes the most sense to them. Mother finally obtains Ah-jung&#39;s cellphone from Ah-jung&#39;s Granny (<a href="/name/nm4265865/">Gin-goo Kim</a>). She takes it to the prison to show the photos to Do-joon who remembers seeing the junkman at the abandoned house where Ah-jung was killed. Mother recognizes him as the man from whom she bought the umbrella and goes out to see him. Posing as a volunteer worker for Hyeminwon, an organization that provides free medical checks for elderly people living alone, she gets the junkman talking about what he saw the night Ah-jung was killed. He describes how Ah-jung was being followed by a boy who accused her of not liking boys, so Ah-jung tossed a heavy rock at him. When Ah-jung calls the boy a &quot;stupid retard&quot;, the boy threw the rock back at Ah-jung, hitting her in the head and killing her. The boy then carried the body to the roof and left it hanging over the ledge. Mother realizes that he&#39;s talking about her son and informs him that the police are going to re-open the investigation and release Do-joon in a few days. When the junkman describes how the boy did this weird thing with his thumbs on his temples and starts to phone the police about what he saw, Mother repeatedly hits him in the head with a large pipe wrench and burns down the house to cover the murder. Days later, Inspector Je-mun (<a href="/name/nm2175143/">Je-mun Yun</a>) informs Mother that they have caught the killer, Crazy JP escaped from the sanitarium, and that they are going to release Do-joon because they found blood on JP&#39;s shirt that matched that of Ah-jung. JP has denied that he killed Ah-jung, claiming that she got a nosebleed on his shirt. Mother requests to meet JP and finds that he is a Down&#39;s Syndrome child. When she finds out that JP has no mother (to fight for him), she breaks down and cries. Do-joon is released from prison. On his way back, he meets Jin-tae in his new car and learns that the junk dealer&#39;s place burned down. Picking through the rubble, Do-joon finds Mother&#39;s acupuncture needle case. He later informs Mother that he thinks JP might have put Ah-jung&#39;s body on the roof so that someone would find her and get medical help for her, because she was bleeding. In the final scenes, Mother is going off on a &quot;Thank You Parents&quot; bus tour. Do-joon buys her some food to eat and returns her partially-burned acupuncture box. &quot;How could you leave this lying around?&quot; he asks Mother. Mother then hurriedly boards the bus. While the rest of the passengers dance in the aisle of the bus, Mother runs an acupuncture needle into her thigh and then starts to dance. Dancing in the aisles of tour buses was commonly seen on Korean tour buses up to a few years ago. Now. with stricter rules and sharper fines, it&#39;s not as common anymore. Several times during the film, Mother says that she knows of an acupuncture point on the thigh. She calls it &quot;a meridian point that can loosen the knots in your heart and clear all the horrible memories from your mind.&quot; She did it to herself to erase the memories of her attempts to kill herself and Do-joon when he was young, her murder of the junkman, and her son&#39;s involvement in the killing of Ah-jung.The film does not provide a definitive answer, leaving the audience to ponder four possibilities: (1) Jin-tae (<a href="/name/nm1918588/">Goo Jin</a>), (2) the junkman, (3) Do-joon, and (4) Crazy JP from the sanitarium. Jin-tae is ruled out early in the movie. The majority of viewers conclude that the junkman&#39;s version of the murder is the truthful one. This is actually evidenced when the police make Do-joon demonstrate the events using a dummy, and he clearly shows them how Ah-jung&#39;s head was hit with a rock and her body carried to the roof and placed over the ledge for someone to notice it and get medical attention. In the end, it is Ah-jung&#39;s blood on Crazy JP&#39;s shirt that the police find most suspicious.
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