She is and she isn't as Mr. Bong reveals through a kinked narrative and a monumental, ferocious performance by Kim Hye-ja as the title character.
The short video of him smoking a bong hit through a gas mask under a confederate flag was apparently so jarring to NFL coaches and general managers that he tumbled from the fourth or fifth pick to Miami at No13.
Think of Buzz Lightyear's attempt to prove he can fly, in "Toy Story," or Carl Fredricksen's balloon-powered mission to save his house and travel south in "Up," or the journey that Joy, Sadness, and Bing Bong take through Abstract Thought in "Inside Out".
The heroine, gleaming like a space-age Joan of Arc in fantastical armor, vaults a sofa, battles past a beer bong, wades through a make-out room, relaxes with a tequila on ice, and crowd-surfs down a hallway to rescue a fellow we presume to be her boyfriend.
They allowed me into environments few get to see them in hitting the snooze button, making coffee, ripping on a bong, scrolling through Facebook, and taking a first look out the window.
The resulting bongs echo through the gallery.
The last monster to run wild through Bong Joon-ho's imagination was an enormous creature from the watery deep.
Once the rebels break through, Bong and his production designer, Ondrej Nekvasil, provide them with a series of sybaritic astonishments: a sunlit greenhouse garden, a mahogany sleeper car, and party rooms in which toffs, dressed in gowns and rave wear, get stoned, drink, and dance.
When Blue uses the Volcano, he inhales the contents of the plastic bag through a bong, which purifies the vapor.
The most controversial name, Colonel Sieminski notes, was Masher, the nickname for a "sweep operation through the Bong Son Plain".
