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In - by Tyler Thier

Maggot in a Honey Bucket: Genre, Commodity, and Lee Chang-dong’s Green Fish

A friend once admitted to having consumed Wonka (2023) on his cellphone mid-flight, in 10-minute increments between naps, “the way Scorsese intended.” The admission is, perhaps, doubly tongue-in-cheek because of both the medium of spectatorship and the film in question. Scorsese probably wouldn’t approve of either — maybe he’d derive mild enjoyment out of the latter, but certainly not the former. What would be more offensive entirely is the fact that this critic watched Lee Chang-dong’s 1997 feature debut, Green...

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