Who hasn’t been looking forward to the release of the film Mother set to release on the 12th of March? For those of you who could have cared less, you may change your mind after getting a peak at the official movie poster that was released. I have to admit that I wasn’t too terribly impressed even with the poster staring me in the face, though it does show promise. However, my tune changed right around the time I found out that Mother was directed by Bong Joon-Ho.

So basically five seconds ago when I was doing research for this article. Anyway, imagine my surprise when I went all ‘Who the hell is Bong Joon-Ho’ and Googled him, only to realize that he is the mastermind behind two of my most favorite movies; Memories of Murder and The Host. Holy snickerdoodles batman! I think I just peed a bit in happiness! But seriously, all joking aside Joon-Ho’s latest film looks like an epic change from what we’ve come to expect from him. Walking that line between bloody and violent to sentimental, Mother is dangerously close to being, dare I say it, universal in its appeal. A murder mystery, Mother sets the stage for the accomplished Korean actress Kim Hye-je to really show us what she’s made of if we didn’t know already. Hye-ja is a single mother of her 27-year-old son, Do-joon (Bin Won).

A little slow minded and naive, Do-joon is blamed when a girl he had been following the night before ends up murdered in an abandoned building. With an incompetent lawyer and an apathetic police department, the case is closed pretty quickly once they have Do-joon in custody. Hye-ja is the only person who believes in his innocence and she will do anything to prove it to those who have taken her son from her. For those lucky ones who have seen the film already and for any die hards who havn’t, you can now download a full-sized poster of Mother via Magnolia Pictures.

You can also check the AMP review for ‘Mother’ available HERE