Searching For Bugonia

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

While I am very intrigued by the new movie Bugonia….I’m not so sure I actually want to make the effort to see it. But, I just don’t know. If I do go see it, it probably will be sometime this weekend.

This is the Korean movie that Bugonia is based on.

Meh. I walk out of movies so often — and this one is clearly very weird — that I just don’t know if I really want to do it or not. Time will tell. I can be moody about going to see movies.

‘Bugonia’

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

I only bring this movie up because I have recently learned that it is actually a remake of the totally bonkers South Korean movie Save The Green Planet. I only saw parts of Save The Green Planet, but it was up there with the French movie “Betty Blue” for being totally, completely insane.

How faithful the makers of Bugonia are going to be to the original movie will be interesting to see. The movie, as I recall, veers off into some pretty bizzarro places as it progresses.

I just don’t know if American audiences are prepared for such a nutzo movie. But, Save The Green Planet *was* actually pretty good. So…lulz?