Mother
Mother is a 2009 South Korean neo-noir thriller film directed by Bong Joon Ho, starring Kim Hye-ja and Won Bin. The plot follows a mother who, after her intellectually disabled son is accused of the murder of a young girl, attempts to find the true killer to get her son freed.
Plot
An unnamed widow lives alone with her only son, selling medicinal herbs in a small town in southern South Korea while conducting unlicensed acupuncture treatments for the town's women on the side to erase bad memories. Her son, Yoon Do-joon, is shy, but prone to attacking anyone who mocks his intellectual disability. She dotes on him and scolds him for hanging out with Jin-tae, a local thug. When Do-joon is nearly hit by a car, he and Jin-tae vandalize the car and attack the driver and passengers as revenge. Jin-tae blames Do-joon for the damage done to the car, and Do-joon is sued. His mother struggles with the burden of the debt.
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| author | Bong Joon-ho |
|---|---|
| award | Asian Film Award for Best Film Blue Dragon Film Award for Best film |
| contentLocation | South Korea |
| director | Bong Joon-ho |
| editor | Moon Sae-kyung |
| events | criminal investigation http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q382230 involuntary manslaughter mental disability motherhood parent–child relationship scapegoating social exploitation |
| genre | crime drama mystery thriller |
| keywords | abandoned building acupuncture arrest attack bleed build bus station disabled elderly man euthanasia free them both from hardship golf club hang out high school girl hit by a car intellectual disability kill morning nosebleed pesticide prison visit sanatorium shadow shock small town walk want |
| musicBy | Lee Byung-woo |
| nomination | International Submission to the Academy Awards |
| producer | Choi Jae-won Seo Woo-sik |
| productionCompany | Barunson |
| publisher | CJ Entertainment |
| theme | independent neo-noir south korean |