If You Enjoyed ‘Mickey 17,’ You Should Check Out Hayao Miyazaki’s Thematically Similar Classic Streaming Now on Max
Bong Joon Ho’s Mickey 17 has a thematic connection to Hayao Miyazaki’s Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, starting with the misunderstood insectoids.
Six years after the global phenomenon Parasite(2019), director Bong Joon Ho is back with another stellar feature, Mickey 17. Based on the novel Mickey7 by Edward Ashton, the sci-fi dark comedy dives deep into themes of identity and survival in a futuristic setting, with Robert Pattinson in the spotlight. Fans who were once again captivated by Bong’s genre-mixing signature will also be fascinated to know there’s another film that is equally compelling, yet vastly different: Hayao Miyazaki’s Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind(1984).
