The textual analysis of the film Okja (2019, Bong Joon-Ho)

Okja (2019, Bong Joon-Ho, Korea) indicates capitalistic greed and provokes questions amongst an audience upon their own lifestyle choices, as well as invoking thoughts about the societal climate we currently inhabit. This film conforms to typical genre conventions within Korean cinema, emphasising the issues that lie within a capitalist society. We as an audience have seen this recently with Squid Game (2021, Hwang Dong-Hyuk, Korea) and within another one of Bong Joon- Ho’s films, Parasite (2019). Throughout these films, the difference between the rich within society, and the less fortunate is visually and narratively emphasised. Alongside this, Bong Joon-Ho merges the recognisable genres of science fiction, action and drama and even aspects of horror within the text which emphasises Staigers concept of genre hybridity. Staiger states that ‘films produced in Hollywood in the past fifty years or so are persistently instances of genre mixing’ (2003:185) It is clear that the act of combining genres is common within the film industry now, and that one film does not conform to one set of genre conventions yet has aspects of multiple strands.

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