South Korean director Bong Joon Ho’s villain in Mickey 17, a demagogic politician played by Mark Ruffalo, was based on past dictators, but might seem familiar to viewers because “history always repeats itself,” the Oscar winner said in Berlin. “He has, in a comical way, all the faces of the bad politicians we’ve experienced,” he told journalists via a translator on Saturday at the Berlin Film Festival. Bong made history at the 2020 Oscars when Parasite, a dark social satire about the gap between rich and poor in modern Seoul, became the first non-English language film to win the Best Picture award, the movie industry’s highest honour. His new sci-fi dark comedy starring Robert Pattinson is being shown in the festival’s Special non-competition section. “I made this character drawing my inspiration from the past, and as history always repeats itself, it might seem like I’m referring to someone in the present,” Bong said. ALSO READ | Robert Pattinson makes TikTok debut playing viral cow game, viral video leaves fans in stitches Story continues below this …