Astounding!

Rating: 10/10 (26 February 2020)

It is difficult to not spoil a movie when all you want to do is to talk about it, specially when it is truly astounding.
Bong Joon Ho, the acclaimed director of Snowpiercer brings us this amazing masterpiece, a grueling story of the lengths people will go to come out of a desperate situation.
All I will say of the story is that in its core it's the tale of two families, a very wealthy family that has everything, yet they have nothing, and a very impoverish family that has each other to a fault. But when their worlds collide there is bound to be a catastrophic catharsis.
In the age of remakes, sequels and reboots it is very hard to find a movie that is not only very original in its premise, but that it also manages to amaze you and shock you to the very core, to your very foundation.
The movie is very well shot, and it has amazing performances, specially from Woo-sik Choi and So-dam Park, who is rapidly becoming a rising star among Korean actresses.
The film won four Academy Awards, and it deserves every single one of them, it is well-paced, the story is engaging, it has amazing performances, an astonishing photography, and it is masterfully put together by a visionary director, whose unapologetic take to show the ugly side of humanity makes this movie unforgettable.
It would almost be a crime not to rate this movie a 10 out of 10.
There have been talks to make an American adaptation: do not mess with greatness!