About the Movie
When a woman decides to give her baby up for adoption by leaving at a church's baby box, she uncovers an illegal business run by two men selling babies on the black market. She ends up traveling with them to interview prospective adoptive families, while being trailed by detectives.
Broker film trailer (click the image below)
Themes
Adoption
"Adoption." Gale Encyclopedia of Everyday Law, edited by Donna Batten, 3rd ed., vol. 1: American with Disabilities Act to First Amendment Law, Gale, 2013, pp. 673-676. Gale eBooks, link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX2760300141/GVRL?u=cod_lrc&sid=bookmark-GVRL&xid=7327624a
Sisson, Gretchen, and Jessica M. Harrison . “What We Get Wrong about Adoption.” The Nation, 8 Dec. 2021, www.thenation.com/article/society/adoption-politics/.
Reviews
Scott, A. O. “‘Broker’ Review: It Takes a Village to Sell a Child.” The New York Times, The New York Times Company , 25 Dec. 2022, www.nytimes.com/2022/12/25/movies/broker-review-hirokazu-kore-eda.html.
Tallerico, Brian. “Broker .” Roger-Ebert.Com, Ebert Digital LLC , 23 Dec. 2022, www.rogerebert.com/reviews/broker-movie-review-2022.
About South Korea
Cait Ellis, www.instagram.com/igcait
“Country Business Guide: South Korea .” AtoZ International Business, World Trade Press, https://library.cod.edu/atozinternationalbusiness (Click link and search for "South Korea")
Im, Hyug-Baeg , Yu, Woo-ik , Lee, Chan , Hahn, Bae-ho and Lew, Young Ick. "South Korea". Encyclopedia Britannica, 22 Aug. 2024, https://www.britannica.com/place/South-Korea.