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@KateSherrod Second try: Yep, it's a no-honking sign, & they're really a thing here. Or they used to be, I guess around schools and hospitals. Haven't seen one in ages, though; it's "discontinued," so maybe they gave up? They're actually a thing in *lots* of places: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Horns_forbidden_road_signsPermalink On twitter.com
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@KateSherrod That said, this is Bong Joon-Ho, so of course it's also a "no trumpets" (as in, bugles, as in, emblem of the US military) sign. Bong's kind of the genius of doublespeaky political films: fun blockbusters w/ a furious, progressive diatribes literally hidden "underground" in them.Permalink On twitter.com
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@KateSherrod I actually published a thing (in an Australian magazine) about how that's Bong's cinematic language: the evasive doublespeak that was normal in South Korea during the dictatorships he grew up in. Don't have a scan of that atm. But, ha...Permalink On twitter.com
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@KateSherrod It's funny you should mention lectures on The Host; when I taught Anglophone Cultures Through Cinema I always did my first lecture on The Host, deconstructing how it's really a critique of the Miracle on the Han and of Park Chung Hee's dictatorship and all that followed it.Permalink On twitter.com
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@KateSherrod My students were usually astonished by the end of it. Never imagined a monster movie could be a political manifesto. It was sort of a compressed version of these posts: gordsellar.com/2008/08/15/reading-the-host-in-context-part-1/ gordsellar.com/2008/08/18/reading-the-host-in-context-part-2-how-i-read-the-host/ Or, in academic paper form: academia.edu/7782733/_Politics_and_Ecology_on_the_Korean_Left_Anti-Americanism_and_Environmental_Dystopia_in_The_Host._On twitter.com