Mother
A widowed herb-seller in a provincial town lives entirely for her mentally disabled adult son, and when he is charged with a schoolgirl's murder she sets out to prove his innocence with a ferocity no lawyer or policeman can match. Written directly for the screen with Park Eun-kyo, it inverts the sacrificial mother of Korean melodrama into something obsessive and unnerving, and carried Bong Joon-ho to his widest arthouse acclaim before Parasite.
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