In Reply to: Disappointed posted by Jon L on July 5, 2014 at 17:54:24:
Simple? It was an allegory, of course, but the story from the beginning cannibalism to the train master selecting his heir hardly was simple. Several reviewers, in fact, have complained it was too complex--- that it was too serious.
Bong Jooh-ho's films often pick popular topics, i.e. serial killers, monsters--- and then use them as vehicles to inspect and comment on larger society.
If you were looking for Schopenhauer, you went to the wrong place...
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