2017 · drama · adventure · sci-fi
Okja
Directed by Bong Joon Ho2h 0m2017
A young girl named Mija risks everything to prevent a powerful, multi-national company from kidnapping her best friend - a massive animal named Okja.
Our read: Okja (2017) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive drama · adventure · sci-fi entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, kinetic, measured drama / adventure, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- inventive
- signature
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