Broker slowly evolves throughout it's runtime from comedy (of errors?) into a sad romantic story. It explores themes of the nature of family, right and wrong, responsibility, while also telling a rollicking road movie featuring characters one immediately latches on to. Sometimes the movie feels a bit manipulative and it's hard sometimes with subtitles to know if the original script is being oversimplified in its dialogue as the subtitles often appear. But most of this is overcome by just how engaging Broker's story and characters are.
The cast comes together very well, playing off each other and portraying the dynamics between each of the group so well you see them become a family before your eyes. Perhaps it's obvious where it is all going from the beginning but Broker compensates for that by making their path to get there so fascinating all the way through. And as the film enters its final act the reality of how this all isn't going to work out how we want it to becomes so clear.
Broker offers us a rather optimistic if vague ending, giving us just enough information to interpret the future of these characters as we see fit without wrapping it all up with a nice bow. I appreciated that it dealt with its somewhat exaggerated story line in a realistic way and in a way that was truly satisfying. Broker despite being rather sad ends up managing to be a feel good story and pulling this off is rather remarkable.
Broker
Starring: Song Kang-ho, Gang Dong-won, Bae Doona, Lee Ji-eun, Lee Joo-young, Im Seung-soo
Writer/Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda
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