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 There doesn't seem to be much good will toward Americans in director Bong Joon-ho's The Host. It is not a fact that hangs over the film since they only appear two or three times throughout but each time with pernicious results.  The Koreans only other nuisance is the title creature itself. If Bong's intention was to hint at how American intervention was felt by the K oreans it is so subtle as not to offend. But throughout the film several themes ran along side the creature but none too glaring to derail its rampage or divert the audience from the story which maintained its high energy along with nall of its twists and turns keeping the outcome ambiguous.  It starts in a Korean lab where the American tells his Korean subordinate to dump some expired chemicals down the drain. Needless to say we find out the results of that action. Years later a group of park goers are drawn to an unusual mass hanging on a bridge. This mass throws the country into a panic as it descends fro...