'Broker' is gentle, sad, and funny in a just-shy-of-cutesy way—right in step with director Hirokazu Kore-eda's tradition of depicting tough subject matter with a light touch.
Broker
He’s intercepted by two baby brokers: debt-ridden dry cleaner Sang-hyun and his younger partner, Dong-soo , who was himself an orphan. What they’re doing is deeply illegal, and they must do shifty things in order to carry out their operation. But there’s a ribbon of genuine altruism in their motivation, too. They’d rather see babies immediately put in the care of parents rather than becoming wards of the state for some unknown period of time.
This is certainly an interesting time in American civic life to sit and watch a movie about babies in which abortion is only mentioned a few times, and usually in grave tones. There are moments inwhen I thought I might have detected the faintest glint of a conservative streak in the filmmaking, a moral outlook that shames unprepared mothers.
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