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A disposable employee on a human expedition to colonize an ice world faces challenges with memory regeneration.
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From the Academy Award-winning writer/director of "Parasite," Bong Joon Ho, comes his next groundbreaking cinematic experience, Mickey 17. The unlikely hero, Mickey Barnes (Robert Pattinson) has found himself in the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to the job... to die, for a living.
"Mickey 17 is a comedy and science fiction film directed by Bong Joon-ho, the Oscar-winning director of Parasite. Based on the novel Mickey7 by Edward Ashton, the plot is set in a dystopian future where humanity is colonizing other planets in missions sponsored by politicians and corporations. Desperate to leave Earth, Mickey (Robert Pattinson) takes a job as an "expendable": a person sent on suicidal tasks to die, be cloned with his memories intact, and return to work. When two clones of Mickey accidentally coexist at the same time (something forbidden in the colony), they must keep their existence a secret while trying to stop the plans of the authoritarian government they live under. As with other Bong Joon-ho films, Mickey 17 delivers a sharp critique of inhumane practices and economic inequality in a capitalist system taken to its extreme (also using dark humor, as in Okja). However, it tries to cover too many subplots and themes, relying heavily on devices like flashbacks and voiceovers to explain much of the story. It's far from the heights of Parasite, but it’s hard to look away from the eccentric Robert Pattinson on screen, keeping things highly entertaining. It's not Bong Joon-ho’s best film, but it certainly has more to say than the typical Hollywood blockbusters today."