The Host

The film, The Host, is about a sea monster created by the improper disposal of chemicals. I believe this movie is in a way like an anti-American movie. The movie starts off showing an American pathologist ordering his Korean assistant to dump all the toxic chemicals down the drain. The assistant reluctantly complied and dumped many bottles down the drain that led right into Han River. Through the orders of an American, the monster was created accidentally. If this never happened, the movie would have never happened. Another scene in the movie shows an American scientist with his translator, interrogating Gang-du. The scientist was pretending to care, asking him questions about his daughter. The American scientist did not believe Gang-du’s story. He believed that Gang-du was hallucinating and it was caused by the so-called virus. Even though to this point in the movie, there was no evidence of a virus, a brain biopsy was deemed necessary. This shows the cruelty and uncaringness of Americans. Also near the end of the movie, the US military’s last-ditch effort to kill the monster was to release a chemical agent called “Agent Yellow”. Despite the huge amounts of protestors, the chemical was released while the protestors were still in the area.