In a province in Pusan, South Korea, the slow Yoon Do-joon is a young man overprotected by his mother that works with acupuncture and herbs and does not like his worthless and reckless friend Jin-tae. When a Mercedes runs over Do-joon, Jin-tae follows the hit-and-run driver with Do-joon and find the car parked in a golf club. Jin-tae breaks the side mirror of the car and Do-joon collects golf balls lost in a lake. When they see the cart with the driver and passengers of the Mercedes, there is a fight and they end in the police station. During the night, Do-joon walks to the bar Manhattan to meet Jin-tae that does not arrive; when Do-joon returns home, he sees the easy Moon Ah-jung walking alone in an alley and entering in an abandoned house. On the next morning, Ah-jung is found dead on the terrace of the house. The incompetent detectives find a golf ball near her body and they conclude that Do-joon is the killer. Doo- joon is arrested; signs a confession and is charged of murder. However, his mother follows her instincts believing that her son is innocent and the scapegoat of the incompetent police department and seeks the truth disclosing a dreadful reality.
A mother lives quietly with her twenty-eight-year-old son, Do-joon, providing herbs and acupuncture to neighbors. One day, a girl is brutally murdered, and Do-joon is charged with the killing. Now, it's his mother's call whether to prove him innocent or to leave him imprisoned.
Wow, what a movie, and what a story! Nothing that Hollywood producers and directors would dare to do. And a long leap and change of pace after the director&#39;s previous movie Host.<br/><br/>Mother revolves about the investigation carried out by a loving mother to prove the innocence of her mentally-challenged and psychologically-unstable son, who is is jailed for the murder of a teenage girl.<br/><br/>Mother is a sad movie. I don&#39;t see the comic side as other viewers do. It looks depressing, it is depressing, and has a shocking ending. All the characters lack love, they have gray miserable lives that lead nowhere, they are unable to connect with other human beings in healthy ways despite living in a small town. They seem to have lost their soul somewhere. However, the good performances and the way the director Joon-ho Bong approaches the story, produces a thought-provoking slow-burning psychological thriller with a shocking ending that will make you forget how sad everything is. The biggest lesson you will remind yourself of after watching this movie is that the director makes the movie, not the story or the actors, Joon-ho gives a master lesson of what direction is in Mother.<br/><br/>Two main themes are explored in the movie. The first one is that the way we look at the world is filtered by our color lenses, whatever those might be, and the color we see is nothing but a distortion of reality; however, those lenses can be put onto us, to manipulate our view of the world so we see that clearly when we remove them. That is, exactly, what the director does here. We are the mother&#39;s eyes until the director comes, knocks on our door and tell us, hey give me those lenses, they are mine. We look at the world and assume things and, truly we know nothing. That is why the movie has two circular anchors; the first anchor is the film opening scene with the mother dancing in a field of grass; the second anchor is almost the same scene but, by then, we have the lenses off, and so does she.<br/><br/>The second main theme is clear from the very title - The Mother. The mother we are presented with in this film is not just Do-joon&#39;s mother. Most of the comments, scenes and attitudes shown by the character clearly relate to the Archetype of the Great Mother. The archetype relates not only to the relationship that we all have with our mothers, but it is also a repository of values and behaviors we have in our psyche about motherhood in general, in humans and in Nature. Some of the positive traits associated to the Mother Archetype are the power of healing, being a source of nourishment and fertility, being a promoter of personal development and, finally of the independence from her offspring; she is the goddess, the peacemaker, the balance. The negative traits of the mother are her overbearing and controlling nature, her unhealthy attachment to her offspring, her destructive and excessive nature; she is the witch, the mad woman, destruction, the unbalance. Just to show two examples we see the obsession of the mother with the fertility powers or manhood of her son, and she is also a healer (a herbalist and acupuncturist) who works on fertility issues and on healing people. Most of the traits I&#39;ve mentioned above appear clearly in the character of the mother.<br/><br/>The acting is good, contained but believable. Hye-ja Kim is fantastic as Mother, showing different aspects of her character&#39;s psyche without crossing the line, i.e. she&#39;s not overly dramatic or overly rigid she feels real, with her virtues and defects, ups and downs. Won Bin is also believable as the infantile &quot;retarded&quot; son who doesn&#39;t grasp the world.<br/><br/>Two things I didn&#39;t like in the movie. The first thing is that the movie is a bit too long unnecessarily, with many superficial scenes that add nothing to the character or the story; they are mostly in the first hour of the film. Therefore, the pace and tempo of the movie are uneven, and the film is not as engaging as it could have been. I do love slow burning thrillers, but if something burns for too long, you get ashes. The second thing is the production: the movie looks cheap, as it was set in the 1990s, with a poor cinematography and film quality. I thought if those things had been a bit more artistic, the movie would have been terrific.<br/><br/>Overall a really good movie, with a great story and ending, but a bit too long.
This is seriously the most epic film I&#39;ve ever seen in my whole life. The epicness of the film can not even be described. The son is epic. The mother is epic, the WHOLE THING is so epic!!!!!!! It is so epic I would recommend this epic film to any people who likes epic films. It is the most epic film I&#39;ve ever seen. I&#39;ve said this before, BUT IT&#39;S EPIC. EPIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But It&#39;s really epic, and I&#39;m not even saying this to trick you into watching a non-epic film. It&#39;s seriously an epic film. Everything about this epic film is epic. The 2 main characters are played epicly. The scene where the boy scissor kicks the officer in the back of the head is so freaking epic. Literally. Watch this epic film. 10/10 for epicness.
Key casting is aces, led by a deglammed Kim, forcefully low-key as the mother who seems capable of anything to protect her son.
A doting mother (<a href="/name/nm1067547/">Hye-ja Kim</a>) of a mentally-challenged young man is devastated when son Yoon Do-joon (<a href="/name/nm1047193/">Won Bin</a>) is arrested for the murder of a young girl, Moon Ah-jung (<a href="/name/nm3832104/">Hee-ra Mun</a>), and tricked into signing a confession. Certain that her son is innocent, Mother begins her own investigation into Ah-Jung&#39;s background and the events that happened on the night of the murder. Mother was filmed from a screenplay co-written by South Korean screenwriters Park Eun-kyo and Bong Joon-ho (who also directed the movie). Mother worked as an herbalist in a store and performed illegal acupuncture treatments (she was not licensed) on the side. Her employer wanted Mother to lie to customers about the inferior quality herbs they imported from China. To force Mother into compliance, the employer reminded her of how her illegal acupuncture practice would reflect upon the business and upon her husband, some high-ranking official. &quot;Deodeok root&quot; is the root of the Codonopsis lanceolata plant, known in English as &quot;bonnet bellflower.&quot; It is a popular ingredient in Korean cooking and can be found in various dishes, such as kimchi, vegetable salads, pancakes, etc. &quot;Gugija&quot; (Lycium species) is known under several English names, such as &quot;Chinese matrimony vine&quot;, &quot;wolfberries&quot;, and &quot;goji berries.&quot; The red berries often make their way into soups, salads, and herbal teas. Mother contends that it&#39;s good for Do-joon&#39;s virility. Ah-jung&#39;s two boyfriends explain that she took photos with her &quot;pervert&quot; phone of everyone with whom she had sex, so it&#39;s reasonable to conclude that the junkman was one of her customers. This is best evidenced in the scene where the junkman explains how he came to be in the abandoned house. He is seen spreading a mat on the floor and measuring out the rice with which he intends to pay Ah-jung (aka &quot;Rice Cake Girl&quot;). One of Ah-jung&#39;s girlfriends had the skill to silence the sound of a cellphone when it took photos. Ah-jung used it to take photos of her sex partners. Several explanations have been offered, including that she was a single mother and very poor, but the most generally-accepted explanation is that Mother couldn&#39;t bear to live with Do-joon&#39;s retardation so she decided to take both of their lives. She chose to use an insecticide called Lone Star, but it was too weak and only made them sick for two days. Some viewers have entertained the possibility that it was the poison that actually caused Do-joon&#39;s brain damage. Since the film does not offer an explanation, it&#39;s up to each viewer to decide which scenario makes the most sense to them. Mother finally obtains Ah-jung&#39;s cellphone from Ah-jung&#39;s Granny (<a href="/name/nm4265865/">Gin-goo Kim</a>). She takes it to the prison to show the photos to Do-joon who remembers seeing the junkman at the abandoned house where Ah-jung was killed. Mother recognizes him as the man from whom she bought the umbrella and goes out to see him. Posing as a volunteer worker for Hyeminwon, an organization that provides free medical checks for elderly people living alone, she gets the junkman talking about what he saw the night Ah-jung was killed. He describes how Ah-jung was being followed by a boy who accused her of not liking boys, so Ah-jung tossed a heavy rock at him. When Ah-jung calls the boy a &quot;stupid retard&quot;, the boy threw the rock back at Ah-jung, hitting her in the head and killing her. The boy then carried the body to the roof and left it hanging over the ledge. Mother realizes that he&#39;s talking about her son and informs him that the police are going to re-open the investigation and release Do-joon in a few days. When the junkman describes how the boy did this weird thing with his thumbs on his temples and starts to phone the police about what he saw, Mother repeatedly hits him in the head with a large pipe wrench and burns down the house to cover the murder. Days later, Inspector Je-mun (<a href="/name/nm2175143/">Je-mun Yun</a>) informs Mother that they have caught the killer, Crazy JP escaped from the sanitarium, and that they are going to release Do-joon because they found blood on JP&#39;s shirt that matched that of Ah-jung. JP has denied that he killed Ah-jung, claiming that she got a nosebleed on his shirt. Mother requests to meet JP and finds that he is a Down&#39;s Syndrome child. When she finds out that JP has no mother (to fight for him), she breaks down and cries. Do-joon is released from prison. On his way back, he meets Jin-tae in his new car and learns that the junk dealer&#39;s place burned down. Picking through the rubble, Do-joon finds Mother&#39;s acupuncture needle case. He later informs Mother that he thinks JP might have put Ah-jung&#39;s body on the roof so that someone would find her and get medical help for her, because she was bleeding. In the final scenes, Mother is going off on a &quot;Thank You Parents&quot; bus tour. Do-joon buys her some food to eat and returns her partially-burned acupuncture box. &quot;How could you leave this lying around?&quot; he asks Mother. Mother then hurriedly boards the bus. While the rest of the passengers dance in the aisle of the bus, Mother runs an acupuncture needle into her thigh and then starts to dance. Dancing in the aisles of tour buses was commonly seen on Korean tour buses up to a few years ago. Now. with stricter rules and sharper fines, it&#39;s not as common anymore. Several times during the film, Mother says that she knows of an acupuncture point on the thigh. She calls it &quot;a meridian point that can loosen the knots in your heart and clear all the horrible memories from your mind.&quot; She did it to herself to erase the memories of her attempts to kill herself and Do-joon when he was young, her murder of the junkman, and her son&#39;s involvement in the killing of Ah-jung.The film does not provide a definitive answer, leaving the audience to ponder four possibilities: (1) Jin-tae (<a href="/name/nm1918588/">Goo Jin</a>), (2) the junkman, (3) Do-joon, and (4) Crazy JP from the sanitarium. Jin-tae is ruled out early in the movie. The majority of viewers conclude that the junkman&#39;s version of the murder is the truthful one. This is actually evidenced when the police make Do-joon demonstrate the events using a dummy, and he clearly shows them how Ah-jung&#39;s head was hit with a rock and her body carried to the roof and placed over the ledge for someone to notice it and get medical attention. In the end, it is Ah-jung&#39;s blood on Crazy JP&#39;s shirt that the police find most suspicious.
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