‘Save the Green Planet’ Is the Manic, Conspiratorial Acid Trip ‘Bugonia’ Only Hinted at Being

When the director of the modern weird, Yorgos Lanthimos, teamed up with frequent collaborator and muse Emma Stone on their wild, conspiratorial environmental-extraterrestrial film, Bugonia, they drew inspiration from a little-known source: a 2003 Korean film called Save the Green Planet. If you walked away from Lanthimos’ deliciously odd and of-the-moment movie, wondering if it could’ve stood to be even more bizarre, its progenitor is definitely worth checking out.

Directed by Jang…