The story tells the story of a sincere friendship and a strange journey between Okja, a giant creature born with a secret, and a girl named Miko, who grew up with it in the valley of Gangwon-do. The flat valley plot in the first half has a strong Korean style, and the adventure in the second half is Hollywood style.
In the first half of the country life, there is an inexplicable shadow of Hayao Miyazaki. The little cute girl and the huge clumsy super pig play and sleep soundly in the vast mountain forest. It is her shelter and she is his master. In such a simple environment with no survival pressure, the coexistence of humans and animals is not the material love of the steel-reinforced forest, nor the value utilization of the poor, but the playmates who grow together, so this kind of attachment is moving because of equality.
Regarding the help of the ALF Animal Protection Association in the adventure, this is a tool for the director to tell the story in depth, but unfortunately, it is only a matter of time, so it is a little embarrassing. And the villain's genetically engineered super pig also has questions and no answers.
But in the end, when the little girl Miko bought the Super Indoko and walked together through the dense pig pens to be killed, a pair of pigs tossed their young and begged to be taken away. I think this episode is the most tear-jerking part of the movie. Meizi flew thousands of miles to bring her home for her friend Yuzi. They took on the hope of a pair of pigs and brought back a surviving cub. From the point of view of a little girl, this simple is enough.
Anyway, I like that Okko has a friendship similar to Hayao Miyazaki's fairy tale, so even if it's only half of it, it's beautiful.
Meizi lay on Yuzi and slept late
Miko and Tamiko love hug
Meizi whispers to Yuko
Miko likes to sleep in Tamago's arms
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