Bong Joon-Ho's 'Okja' Is As Weird A Hybrid As Its Porcine Star
Bong's clever dark comedy, about a enormous, genetically modified pig and the adorable moppet who loves her, veers wildly in tone, but the CGI oinker at its center is a marvel.
Big as a Buick and with a buck like a bronco, the giant grey pig named Okja is a force to be reckoned with. She was born in a lab — well, two labs. In the context of Bong Joon-ho's new film Okja, the pig belongs to a nightmarish food conglomerate, an obvious Monsanto stand-in, which ships her to a small family farm in South Korea as part of a calculated effort to make genetically modified food less scary to the public. If people emphasize with their mutant pigs, the company reasons, they'll eat them without questioning their origins.
Of course, Okja
