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''The Host'' (''Gwoemul'', as it's known in its home country) is a critically-acclaimed 2006 film by Bong Joon-ho, combining aspects of the [[Kaiju]] movie, the political satire, and the family dramedy. It absolutely swept the Blue Dragon Awards and the 1st Asian Film Awards. It's also one of [[Quentin Tarantino]]'s favourite movies of recent times.
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* [[The Alcoholic]]: Nam-il, and to an even greater extent, the hobo whom he befriends.
* [[Animal Nemesis]]: Averted, due to Korean [[Values Dissonance]]. "If a beast kills a man, then that beast should be torn limb from limb."
* [[Attack of the
* Anticlimax: {{spoiler|Nam-il slips and drops his last Molotov. Pleasantly averted a few seconds later when Nam-joo shows up, though.}}
* [[Badass Bystander]]: The American soldier who emerges from the crowd and tries to fight off the monster during its first rampage. A later news story reveals that he died of his wounds.
* [[Badass Family]]: The entire Park family. Nam-il gets special mention for dual wielding [[Kill It
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: {{spoiler|Hyun-seo dies, but her father ends up taking in the orphan boy as his son, and has finally matured}}.
* [[Cassandra Truth]]: Hyun-seo is alive, damn it.
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* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: Western viewers may recognize the anonymous American doctor with the cross-eye as Pilcher from ''[[The Silence of the Lambs]]''. The pathologist at the beginning is Scott Wilson.
* [[Hobos]], one of whom is a [[Deliberately Cute Child]]. Seriously, there's a montage of him discussing what kind of food he'd like to eat while generally being adorable.
* [[Homage]]: The idea of a [[Attack of the
** The movie generally plays on ALL the good and bad [[Kaiju]] movies [[Godzilla]] spawned.
* [[Idiot Hero]]
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* [[Promotion to Parent]]: The unbearably cute hobo child is raised by his older brother.
* [[Reckless Gun Usage]]: Nam-il keeps pointing the barrel of his shotgun at objects (and people). In one scene, he pointed and ''thrust'' the shotgun at Gang-du's head while the latter was asleep.
* [[The Virus]]: It turns out that {{spoiler|there is no virus and the whole thing was mass hysteria. Unlike in [[Monster a Go
* [[Why Isn't It Attacking?]]: Subverted.
* [[Writer
* [[You Can Panic Now]]: The movie is a deconstruction of this.
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