When the director of the modern weird, Yorgos Lanthimos , teamed up with frequent collaborator and muse Emma Stone on their wild, conspiratorial environmental-extraterrestrial film, Bugonia , they drew inspiration from a little-known source: a 2003 Korean film called Save the Green Planet . If you walked away from Lanthimos’ deliciously odd and of-the-moment movie, wondering if it could’ve stood to be even more bizarre, its progenitor is definitely worth checking out.

Directed by Jang Joon-hwan, Save the Green Planet’ s premise, which writer Will Tracy adapted for Bugonia , closely informs its Western remake. That said, unlike Bugonia , which lets you coast in cold on the promise that Lanthimos and Stone are cooking up another slow-burn oddity, Save the Green Planet do

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