Parasite

The film I’ve selected is “Parasite.”Bong Joon Ho wrote and directed “Parasite” and will be on theaters on October 11, 2019. The cumulative length of the run is 132 minutes. The cast members include Song Kang Ho, Lee Sun Kyun, Yeo-Jeong Jo, Choi Woo Sik, and more. The Kim family lives in a semi-basement and struggles to keep food on the table. Parasite sees each member of Kim’s family infiltrating upper-class Park’s family one-by-one. The Park’s don’t know Kim’s are related. This ending all leads to a twisted resolution where Geun-Se escapes the basement, gives a head injury to Ki-Woo and kills Ki-Jung, and Ki-Taek kills Geun-Se. Ki-Taek also kills the Park family’s elder Park Dong-Ik after he recoils at Geun-Se’s “poor man’s smell.” The Ki-Woo discovers that light in the Parks’ house, where they have since moved out and another family has moved in, is flickering in Morse code. It’s unclear where Ki-Taek went after he fled the scene. The reason why this movie won 4 Oscars is not from the plot but rather because of the detailed scenes and meanings behind this movie. The first important scene is the WI-Fi scene. Bong’s economical and pacific storytelling loses little time in introducing us to Kim’s family of the lower class. They are practically and figuratively a step below the people they try to become – the front room of their apartment is lower than the street level. Bong’s warped sense of humor is apparent as Kim’s are forced to walk around, like animals or insects, to find the WI-fi signal that was abruptly cut off. (They finally found a new source next to the toilet.) So when we see Kim’s ‘enjoying’ the benefits of free street fumigation to rid their home of stinking bugs, we’re already well-versed with their lifestyle so inspiration. The next important scene is to replace the housekeeper in the strange and mysterious world of Bunche, where the deceiving family stays unchanged. The Kim’s are very good at tricking their entrance into the society of the lush park estate of the upper class. Of note, the glass-fronted house is located at the top of the building and can only be accessed by a keypad-controlled entrance. To the sound of the suddenly shimmering songs of the artist Jung Jae-Il, we are invited to celebrate in the boldness of the album. Kim’s, because every member of the family plotted to expel the same worker from Park’s family, therefore allowing the deception to be completed. Edging, great music and great performances take us into modern horror, which is both seductive and interesting. The final blow occurs when Kim Patriarch Ki-Taek (Song Kang-Ho) convinces Parcs’ mother, Choi Yeon-Gyo (Cho Yeo-Jeong), that her long-standing and trustworthy housekeeper, Gook Mong-Gwang (Lee Jeung-Eun), has tuberculosis. (In fact, this drama is from an allergy to peaches.) The way the sequence builds up until Ki-Taek unveils blood tissue from a bin (In fact, ketchup is stained.) finishes it beautifully. In all of Bong’s movies, you’re smiling when Kim’s are winning, even though they are not good people. A trick he used to use in the likes of Snowpiercer and Memories of Murder. I think this is going well with my previous subject. It’s all about low-class people, which is close to what I’ve written for assignment 2.x

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  1. Hey Simon,

    Parasite was a great film, and your analysis of it was really detailed and brought up some great connections that I didn’t even catch. I like how you mentioned that “you’re smiling when Kim’s are winning, even if they’re not good people”. People want to see the underdog win, but it takes skill to really create that in a film while making sure it’s clear these people aren’t “good”. And to do that consistently? That’s talent.

  2. hello simon, i also really liked parasite because it was one of those movies where if you watch it twice you can discover so many more things that you couldn’t catch the first time, because you didn’t have all the information of the movie yet.

    • Leonard on August 6, 2020 at 11:50 am

    You went into great detail and I think that was awesome. Although I did not watch the original parasite movie so it was a little difficult to latch on. But other than that I think you did a great job. I also like how you wen over the original movie and what made it so great.

  3. Hey Simon
    I really enjoyed parasite, so I’m glad you’ve decided to base your movie off of it. I love all of the lowkey messages that director Bong Joon-Ho incorporates into his movies.
    On a side note, I really liked your interpretation of the location of the two houses, I never really looked at it like that when I watched the movie.
    “They are practically and figuratively a step below the people they try to become”

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