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Bong Joon-ho's new film Mother is a hard one to pin down. On the surface, the South Korean filmmaker, who successfully toyed with genre conventions in The Host and Memories of Murder, has created a classic sleuth story. The story of a devoted mother who attempts to prove her son's innocence  after he is arrested of murder is also surprisingly funn […]