interpreters Song Kan-ho, Bae Doona, Gang Dong-won
premiere 21 December 2022
This The first sentence we hear on ‘Broker’ this: ‘Don’t have kids if you’re going to give up.’ The first images of the film belong to A.Ş. a very young girl who abandoned her newborn after some doubts The baby box is in a place where you can read. Two women are watching him from a car, and from now on they will follow his every move. A policeman enters the scene. Later we will learn that the two men holding the child are committed to selling the babies to the highest bidder. But the story immediately turns the other way and we’re not making a ‘spoiler’: the young mother meets two people, they defend themselves by arguing that they are always looking for the best for abandoned babies, and the three of them do it together without a break, without a break. The absolute knowledge journey in search of the best-suited parent for the little one.
But ‘Broker’ is not about newborn smuggling or anything like that. Its director, Hirokazu Koreeda, does not moralize about the behavior of some or any other mother who earns four to 10 million South Korean won from the ‘sales’ of each child, the mother who should not have children if she does not have children. she will dump him and then try to save him in a less dramatic turn than it seems. In fact, despite being loaded with drama, ‘Broker’ is exactly a film dramatic. In any case, and this is common with Japanese filmmakers, the lack of prejudice when faced with a story like this clashes with extreme sensitivity and is very dangerous when it can get emotional.
Koreeda is the world’s most international Japanese directors and it’s getting more international. His previous film ‘The Truth’ was shot in France with Juliette Binoche, Catherine Deneuve and Ethan Hawke and ‘Broker’ is a South Korean production starring Song Kan-ho (‘Parasites’), Bae, the three stars of this cinematography. Doona (“Host”) and Gang Dong-won (“Peninsula”). He continues his information journeys by discovering similar feelings in different geographies.