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This is not quite the typical review since it will divulge the
“surprise ending” of the movie under discussion. My goal is less
to advise the reader whether to spend $11 or so to see “Mother”
since 88% of the reviews on Rotten Tomatoes already give it a
favorable rating. I will join the 12% that are critical but my
main interest is in explaining what went wrong in the latest movie
from Bong Joon-ho, one of Korea’s most acclaimed directors. (His
last movie The Host was a brilliant updating of the Godzilla
genre.) In order to do that, I will have to reveal the ending
which, like much of the rest of the movie, has a deeply alienating
effect on at least this viewer and that is probably all that
matters in the long run.
