'Mickey 17' leaves you laughing, but wanting more

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Like a conductor playing an orchestra of incongruous emotions, writer/director Bong Joon Ho has never been content to score a simple symphony of sympathy.Mickey 17 is very funny. Mickey 17 is very sad.Watching a blathering narcissistic politician get mocked in outer space? Funny! Seeing innocent alien animals get harmed? Sad! Observing the futility of an “expendable” everyman as he is treated as cattle, shamed to his face as disposable, and forc…

'Mickey 17' leaves you laughing, but wanting more

Robert Pattinson and Robert Pattinson in “Mickey 17” (Photo provided by Warner Bros. Pictures).“Hey Mickey – what’s it feel like to die?” In “Mickey 17,” people are constantly asking Mickey (Robert Pattinson) some version of this question, sometimes with existential worry, but more often than not with simple morbid curiosity. In a not-so-distant future where ex-politicians lead their legions of followers into space to colonize far off planets (a…