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.
In the opening shot of &#39;Mother&#39; (which can best be described as a Korean neo-noir), we see an aging, middle-aged woman, making graceful dance movements in an open field out in the country. Director Joon-ho Bong&#39;s intent is to give the impression that the woman is a sympathetic character, perhaps suggesting that she has some kind of healing powers as the enigmatic figure is juxtaposed in the opening scene with the forces of nature. But the image is designed to deceive us, since we are soon to find out that &#39;Mother&#39; is not all who she seems to be.<br/><br/>Mother in reality lives in a run-down urban area with her mentally challenged 25 year old son, Yoon Do-Joon. It&#39;s no surprise that there is something a little bit &#39;off&#39; about Yoon Do-Joon, since he sleeps in the same bed as his mother. She supports him by selling herbs and giving unlicensed acupuncture treatments. What&#39;s worse is that Yoon Do-Joon&#39;s personality has been completely warped by his mother&#39;s intrusive influence (in one very strange scene, she feeds him an herbal broth and checks to see if his urinary flow is okay as he urinates against a wall on a street near their home). Yoon Do-Joon hangs out with Jin-tae, a shady character, who his mother doesn&#39;t care for.<br/><br/>When a bunch of rich businessmen in a Mercedes almost run the seedy hothead Jin-tae over, he drags Yoon Do-Joon with him after they deduce that the car is headed to a local golf course. There Jin-tae, along with the impressionable Yoon, administer beatings to the beleaguered businessmen. Since the businessmen were guilty of hit-and-run and the boys were guilty of assault, the police conclude that the charges cancel each other out, except for Yoon Do-Joon, who&#39;s blamed for smashing an expensive side-view mirror on the Mercedes (even though Jin-tae smashed the mirror, Yoon can&#39;t remember if he actually caused the damage, due to his feeble memory).<br/><br/>Now faced with a rather huge debt to pay for the mirror (which is worth a few thousand dollars), Mother approaches Jin-tae who lends her money with interest. That night, Yoon gets drunk at a bar and follows a schoolgirl who seemingly disappears from his sight. The next day, the girl is found murdered and a golf ball with Yoon&#39;s name on it, is found next to the body (Yoon had collected numerous golf balls at the golf course and signed them with his name). Yoon is incarcerated and now his mother, convinced of his innocence, campaigns to have him released and find out who the guilty party is.<br/><br/>The bizarre campaign to free her son takes many twists and turns. She pays a prominent attorney to help her but discovers he and his law firm are thoroughly corrupt (only interested in taking her money), and that the attorney himself is an alcoholic to boot. Then she gets the idea that maybe Jin-tae planted the golf ball at the murder scene and sneaks into his home, watches as he and his girlfriend make love (they get off by reciting random words to each other) and tiptoes out of the home carrying a golf club which she believes has blood on it. The police, already satisfied that they have the right man, dismiss her evidence, claiming that the &#39;blood&#39; on the golf club, is merely lipstick.<br/><br/>For awhile, Yoon bars his mother from visiting him at the jail, after he recovers a long-lost memory that she tried to poison him when he was a child (the Mother admits that indeed she was guilty of trying to kill herself and her son when he was five due to being despondent over being destitute at the time). However, with the help of Jin-tae (he ends up forgiving Mother for believing that he framed Yoon after she comes up with a convenient cash payment) and the two end up successfully tracking down the murdered girl&#39;s cell phone, which contains photos of all the men she slept with. Yoon now recognizes the picture of an old junk dealer on the cell phone and recalls that he saw the man just prior to the murdered girl&#39;s disappearance.<br/><br/>Suffice it to say, after Mother confronts the old junk dealer, she doesn&#39;t like (or accept) his account of what actually happened right before the girl is murdered. By the end, Mother turns out to be even more unsavory than the rest of the characters we&#39;ve encountered during her quest to find the &#39;truth&#39;. The inept police end up focusing on another suspect who is eventually accused of the crime and Yoon Do-Joon is released from prison and is reunited with his mother.<br/><br/>&#39;Mother&#39; is a film that takes some of its inspiration from the gritty film noirs of the 40s and 50s. There are enough twists and turns to keep your interest but there are also a fair number of scenes that could have used some trimming (this is especially true of the long-winded climax where Mother dances on the bus). &#39;Mother&#39; also works as a societal critique, pointing out the corruption that pervades South Korean society today.
The plot is about a mother trying to find the killer that murdered a girl in order to set her literally retarded son that is in prison who is accused of being the murderer free. And I must say some of the twist and turns were great, which is why the film is so darn engaging. Also there is one sex scene in this movie that some audiences claim is not necessary, but I highly disagree cause it was one of the factors why it confuses the audiences in a good way. Although the film is a bit slow at times, but the pay off is well worth the time, plus it&#39;s engaging from beginning to end so the slowness of the film doesn&#39;t really hurt it. Although when the credit starts rolling I felt a bit not satisfied, like something was missing. But there is no doubt this is a good thriller, that is worth checking out.<br/><br/>8/10
Again as with Bong's earlier films, Mother is a genre exercise that honors convention, yet weaves around it whenever possible. Bong carefully turns Mother into a classic gumshoe tale, with red herrings, interrogations, and moments of sublime suspense.
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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