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When Lucy's not hunting the world for "miracles" like the superpig, she designs uniforms for her private security force. That's just how creative she is. You won't want to miss the new scientific wonders coming from Mirando!
What's so fantastic about this scene is that it's only a slightly exaggerated version of the way company execs often turn their stories into part of the products they sell—for better and for worse. Sheryl Sandberg professionalized Facebook's image with her hard-working "lean in" manifesto. Meanwhile, Uber's disruption empire fell when CEO Travis Kalanick's reputation was shattered by sexual harassment scandals. Okja 's satire is otherworldly enough to be funny, but still cuts close to the bone.
Once a beloved TV personality something like "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin, Johnny is now a drunk loser sopping up cash from any company that will pay him. Lucy has him doing social media for a contest where farmers around the world will compete to raise the greatest superpig over the next decade.
You can almost hear Okja co-writer Jon Ronson's voice behind Johnny, who still hungers for the spotlight. Okja comes on like a Philip K. Dick story, full of dystopian corporate theatrics and hollow-eyed media scorpions, but it winds up turning into a gut-wrenching, emotional story.
A big part of its punch comes from the incredible acting. Over-the-top comedic performances are balanced out by deeply sincere scenes of sorrow and horror in the shadows of the meat industrial complex. She's a young woman living in the Korean countryside who befriends her grandfather's superpig, the eponymous Okja. Her innocence and righteous fury are the perfect foil to the whacked-out cynicism of Johnny, Lucy, and Lucy's assistant Frank Dawson Giancarlo Esposito.
Romping through the ultra-idyllic forest, Mija and Okja are inseparable. But of course their time together can't last.
One day, Johnny arrives with a crew of social media thugs from Mirando to award Okja first place in the superpig contest. Bong Joon Ho's films, including The Host and Snowpiercer , often hover halfway between dark satire and balls-out science fiction action.
He's not afraid to make "message" movies, where we're left with a very clear sense of who did a bad thing and how that bad thing screwed the planet or, in the case of The Host , screwed Seoul. In OKJA, he deftly balances the tone of a classic adventure story with a farcical tale of a girl and her genetically engineered super pig.
In turn, they have tried to pay homage to these films. Both of these have their merits, but they feel shackled by trying to show deference to what came before. It often feels like these are safe facsimiles rather than truly original works. Bong Joon-ho is arguably one of the best genre filmmakers working today. He has a unique talent for taking high concepts and injecting them with humor and humanity. It is a rollicking monster movie that is actually about a dysfunctional family trying to learn how to work together.
In order to combat worldwide food shortages, the Mirando corporation has genetically modified pigs and given them to farmers around the world. Her sister Nancy is the cold, calculating part of capitalism that cares only about the profits on the bottom line. It is biting yet campy at the same time. One of the pigs named, you guessed it, Okja ends up on a farm in the mountains of South Korea in the care of young Mija.
She is earnest and brave and easy to root for. The creature walks a fine line between being realistic and cartoonish. Each of the characters is rich, allowing them to speak about animal cruelty without becoming preachy. It would be easy to put a neat moral bow on OKJA, but the lessons Mija learns in the film are more complex and bittersweet.
Plus, Mija's favorite food is chicken soup. It is a rollicking monster movie that is actually about a dysfunctional family trying to learn how to work together. The bad guys do genuinely horrifying things that will haunt your dreams. Their radical leader, Jay Paul Dano , is in some ways just another version of Lucy. The laboratory scenes are by far the most difficult to watch. When viewing, keep a box of tissues handy — and pork off the menu. Opinion State Of The Animal.
It is a beautiful country with wonderful people and delicious food that features a lot of pork. Samgyeopsal — grilled pork belly — is one of the most favoured dishes across the country. From my perspective, Bong Joon-ho's choice to use a Super Pig to represent the plight of factory-farmed animals was a deliberate symbol for the sheer volume of pork consumed daily in South Korea. It's a volume I can easily attest to, having experienced far too many pork 'surprises' in my dinner. It follows Okja through a system that refuses to recognize her as more than a commodity; it comments on a capitalist food chain that abuses animals to appease our taste buds.
It is worth watching to experience how cleverly Ho appeals to our humanity in an effort to educate us about factory farms and genetic engineering; it is equally worth it to also reflect on why we need our humanity appealed to in the first place to put an end this horrific system. Will you feel guilty after watching it? If you watched OKJA and didn't shed a single tear Over the past few years, I've been slowly cutting back on my meat consumption and increasing my veggies with no noticeable problems. It's amazing what can be done with the wide variety of beans these days. Skip to main content.
Sign up for your daily dose of news and inspiration. State Of The Animal. Okja is a feature-length film released by Netflix on June 28, that teaches important lessons about consumerism, heart and sustainability. Photo courtesy of Okja on Facebook.