After several years of waiting , manager Bong Joon - ho ’s latest sci - fi comedy film , Mickey 17 , has last premiered in theaters . adapt from Edward Ashton ’s novelMickey7 , Bong ’s movie follows Mickey , a man down on his hazard who signs up to be an “ expendable ” laborer on the ice satellite Niflheim for a fresh start . However , he starts wise again and again as his problem force him to die and be born-again in a cloned body , finally struggle for his spirit as a warfare with Niflheim ’s native creatures breaks out .
It ’s a very different tale from Bong ’s more grounded bleak comedyParasite . Nevertheless , Bong deliver another coloured satire withMickey 17‘s story , which hold up several surprises and many implication about human beings and its future . At the same time , it give audience an estimate of where Bong and his unexampled sci - fi film franchise could go from here .
What’s the story of Mickey 17?
Mickey 17shows Mickey Barnes and his business pardner Timo on the run from a loanword shark after their macaron store fails . skip to escape their debt and dying , the duo signs up for a mission to colonize Niflheim led by the fascistic political leader Kenneth Marshall and his wife , Ylfa . As an expendable , Mickey is subject to several life - threatening task during his trip to Niflheim . The ship ’s scientists essentially plow him like a lab rat , repeatedly killing him in lodge to test chemic weapons or create vaccinum to assist the gang hold out in their new world .
Though Mickey ’s 17th iteration settle into a fissure and is left for numb , he is deliver by the Niflheim ’s inhabitants , the “ Creepers . ” lay down his way back to the ship , Mickey 17 sees another clone has been generated , make the two of them “ multiple . ” Since multiples are outlawed after a serial Orcinus orca clone himself to sway out murders , Mickeys 17 and 18 attempt to kill each other before their superiors execute them both . Unfortunately , they are eventually discovered and imprisoned with their love sake Nasha .
As punishment for their “ crime , ” Marshall sends out the two Mickeys to obliterate the swarm of tree creeper surrounding the ship , as the former is hold one of their young captive . Using a hi - technical school translator , the Mickeys agree to return the child Creeper and kill one human to even the scales tipped by another Creeper ’s decease at the crew ’s hands . With that , Nasha and her allies lead a revolt against Marshall and Ylfa and pass the niggling Creeper to its sort . However , Mickey 18 blow up Marshall and himself with a turkey vest , drink down them both and fulfilling the bargain , making peacefulness with the Creepers .
What does it all mean?
Mickey , Nasha , and the rebel allies are imprisoned for their uprising . fortuitously , they are clear , and Nasha becomes a leading image in the colony of Niflheim . Thanks to her , the expendables program is banned , and Mickey blow up the printing process machine used to bring forth clones of himself . Before the latter destroys it , he has a nightmare about Ylfa , who died earlier , using the printing machine to create a clone of Marshall , fence that this is what Mickey want .
Despite it being a dreaming , this image of Ylfa clone Marshall symbolizes how the fascism that they embodied has n’t died , as another person like them could lift to powerfulness one day as long as people go forward to perpetuate their malign theme . This scene also convey Mickey ’s fear of destroying the spendable printer , as death for him then would truly be final . Mickey pick out not to countenance his fear moderate him , waking up from his nightmare and put down the printing machine , guaranteeing that neither he nor Marshall will be rise . It also shows how Mickey has in the end embraced himself as a individual person , with the flick ’s form of address lurch from “ Mickey 17 ” to “ Mickey Barnes ” to cement this face .
Mickey 17doesn’t explicitly set up a continuation , but Edward Ashton has published a subsequence toMickey7 : Antimatter Blues . This second novel display the potential drop for a follow - up to Bong Joon - ho ’s film , as it follows Mickey on another adventure to save his colony by rejuvenate its power , all while learning to go his aliveness without the luxury of arrive back as a clone . This premise aligns with how Mickey rid himself of all cloning applied science at the end of the film , intend a continuation picture could have the same assumption .
Mickey ’s nightmare in the film could even hint at a newfangled baddie like Marshall and Ylfa appear the continuation , continuing the cycle of oppression that they carried out in the original movie . While this would be an intriguing follow - up film , Mickey 17presented a satisfying tale that has wrapped itself up within its own tale . Marshall and Ylfa ’s evilness may return in some other variety , but Mickey Barnes seems quick to endure his new life as a soul of Niflheim .
