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Parasite director Bong Joon-ho’s deep and engaging thriller/satire boomed as the most talked about films of the year and connected to the worldwide audience becoming criterion for the genre. The movie is packed with social discrimination resulting rich becoming richer and poor becoming poor.
The Introduction
The family of four lives in a semi basement, depending on unprotected Wi-Fi network and street cleaning pesticides for keeping their house pest free. Their current source of income is folding pizza boxes for a pizza delivery and that gives us an idea about their income.
Kim Ki-woo(played by Choi woo-shik), the son is gifted a scholar’s stone by one of his friend and offered a job of tutor with a very wealthy family. So, Kim Ki-woo and Ki-jeong( played by Park So-dam) forge their certificates to get the job and thus starts the infiltration of each member of Kim’s family into the park’s wealthy one.
Kim-jeong, the sister starts as an art therapy teacher. Ki- taek (played by Song Kang-ho) becomes the chauffeur by removing the previous one. The park family is also shown distant from the world of poor, their struggles just to feed themselves and would always talk about a foul smell which he gets here and there but actually it is coming from the poor families clothes.
Chung-sook (played by Chang Hyae-jin) as a housekeeper replacing the old keeper, Moon-gwang (played by Lee Jeong-un) who started working their even before the park family came in by showing as if she was hiding a dangerous illness from them.
Now once the entire family of Kim is employed in the Park household, they start availing it as their own when the real one’s were not around. But that’s when the old housekeeper comes back and everything changes and not for good.
The Change
Until this the film is comedy satire showing the differences in society. And mid movie it changes massively to tragedy thriller. The Change is done so quickly and smoothly by Bong Joon-ho that your mood changes but the excitement level surges.
With the return of Moon-Gwang she reveals the secret underground basement where her malnourished husband was staying from many years now in no sunlight, dingy and unhygienic surrounding. She kept her husband there because they didn’t have much money to keep a place of their own.
We see the struggle of two poor families blackmailing one another for the leverage over each other. Both families had dark secrets which must be hidden from the Park family, who are completely unaware of all this.
All of this sums up to violence and blood is shed, many people die including Kim-jeong. In this scene we see Mr. Park asking for the car keys from Ki-taek but it falls near the killer and when Mr. Park comes to pick he again gets the same foul smell and reacts by pinching his nose which triggers Ki-taek and kills him then runs away.
The Ending
In the end we see Kim-woo plan’s to work hard and buy the house one day because his father his their who blinked the light which was connected to the underground basement and send him the message through code that he is in there.
The Gist
The parasite movie is a clear and crisp representation of classism. The Park family is in top, Kim families beneath them and even beneath them is Moon-gwang’s family.
Why this movie connected to the world level is because this class segmentation occurs in any corner of any country.