Okja (2017)

I am always looking for interesting films to watch and it definitely helps if it contains an interesting story and even some actors that you enjoy watching. One film that I kept coming across on Netflix that I wanted to check out was one called Okja and it was released on Netflix in 2017 and it was written and directed by Bong Joon Ho (Snowpiercer). The film stars Tilda Swinton (Doctor Strange) as Lucy Mirando, the new CEO of Mirando Co. who has to clean up the mistakes of her family's past. Her solution is to genetically create a superpig that she will distribute all over the world for farmers to raise for a competition. The only problem for Lucy is that ten years later when it 's time to reveal them, she will meet her match in a little girl (Seo-hyun Ahn) who will do whatever it takes to make sure that they do not take her friend Okja. The film also stars Jake Gyllenhaal (Brokeback Mountain) as Johnny Wilcox, Giancarlo Esposito (King Of New York) as Frank Dawson, Hee-Bong Byun (The Host) as Hee Bong, Shirley Henderson (Star Wars: Episode IX-The Rise Of Skywalker) as Jennifer,  Steven Yeun (Mayhem) as K, Paul Dano (Prisoners) as Jay, Lily Collins (The Blind Side) as Red,  Devon Bostick (Diary Of A Wimpy Kid) as Silver, and Daniel Henshall (The Babadook) as Blond.

This was an interesting film to say the least and one that is sort of divided into two parts. There's the fun adventure part of the film that shows you how everything is set up as well as the very relationship this girl has with Okja. Then there is the second part of the film that is all espionage and action adventure as the ALF tries to figure out how to rescue all of these superpigs before they get slaughtered and the harsh reality that is corporations especially those that deal with the food that we intake. It also shows what lengths they'll go to make sure the public thinks that their food is safe to eat and what not. One of the more shocking scenes had to be when Okja is first brought to the lab and you see all the deformed or defective diseased superpigs that they couldn't get right and you think is Okja the only real superpig till you get to the slaughterhouse scene. I loved Gyllenhaal in this film because he was just an insane version of himself like Depp in Charlie and The Chocolate Factory and he got weirder as the film progressed, but he was sort of a villain we needed to compliment Swinton and co. I loved the cinematography in the film especially the scenes when we are in Korea and it's back at the farm. There are tons of beautiful shots of the landscape before we go to the ugly city shots. I definitely think that this is a film worth checking out that features both English and Korean with the subtitles. I am going to give the film an A- for a final grade.