The Host( 괴물)is a 2006 Korean horror film, about a lizard, the virus it carries, the people it eats, the people who try to stop it. The protagonist is Park Hee Bong, a fat Korean, who works for his grandfather at their corner store like stand where the sell chips and dried octopus tentacles. The film starts in a lab with formaldyhyde being poured into a river, which mutates this lizard/salmander creature, into a virus carrying death machine
The culture of Korea is present in the form of the outrageous events in the movie. The film pokes fun at the insanity and over-the-top characterization of Korean and Asian culture. This is evident through the films larger than life cinematography, which makes it feel as a sort of botched drama. This culture is lightyears apart from my comfort zone making me neither understand nor relate to any extent with the film.
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