Parasite (2019)

• Year: 2019
• Released: 08 Nov 2019
• Country: South Korea
• Adwords: Won 4 Oscars. 308 wins & 271 nominations total
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6751668/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/parasite
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/parasite
• Available in: 720p, 1080p, 2160p
• Language: Korean, English
• MPA Rating: R
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
• Runtime: 132 min
• Writer: Bong Joon Ho, Han Jin-won
• Director: Bong Joon Ho
• Cast: Kang-ho Song, Sun-kyun Lee, Yeo-jeong Cho
• Keywords: family, dark comedy, psychological thriller, class differences, working class,

	8.5/10
	96/100

Parasite Storyline

The Kims – mother and father Chung-sook and Ki-taek, and their young adult offspring, son Ki-woo and daughter Ki-jung – are a poor family living in a shabby and cramped half basement apartment in a busy lower working class commercial district of Seoul. Without even knowing it, they, especially Mr. and Mrs. Kim, literally smell of poverty. Often as a collective, they perpetrate minor scams to get by, and even when they have jobs, they do the minimum work required. Ki-woo is the one who has dreams of getting out of poverty by one day going to university. Despite not having that university education, Ki-woo is chosen by his university student friend Min, who is leaving to go to school, to take over his tutoring job to Park Da-hye, who Min plans to date once he returns to Seoul and she herself is in university. The Parks are a wealthy family who for four years have lived in their modernistic house designed by and the former residence of famed architect Namgoong. While Mr. and Mrs. Park are all about status, Mrs. Park has a flighty, simpleminded mentality and temperament, which Min tells Ki-woo to feel comfortable in lying to her about his education to get the job. In getting the job, Ki-woo further learns that Mrs. Park is looking for an art therapist for the Parks’ adolescent son, Da-song, Ki-woo quickly recommending his professional art therapist friend “Jessica”, really Ki-jung who he knows can pull off the scam in being the easiest liar of the four Kims. In Ki-woo also falling for Da-hye, he begins to envision himself in that house, and thus the Kims as a collective start a plan for all the Kims, like Ki-jung using assumed names, to replace existing servants in the Parks’ employ in orchestrating reasons for them to be fired. The most difficult to get rid of may be Moon-gwang, the Parks’ housekeeper who literally came with the house – she Namgoong’s housekeeper when he lived there – and thus knows all the little nooks and crannies of it better than the Parks themselves. The question then becomes how far the Kims can take this scam in their quest to become their version of the Parks.

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Parasite Movie Reviews

I loved the first 90%….but the last might be very tough for some viewers.

I was able to see “Parasite” a few days ago at the Philadelphia Film Festival and many people there loved the film….as did my daughter who saw it with me. As for me, I think the production values were excellent but the ending changed my overall feelings about the movie. Up untl the end, I liked it very, very much….but after the ultra-violent climax, I was left a bit cold. Your experience with the film is really dependent on whether or not you can take the violence and how it impacts you.

Instead of talking about the plot and how great or not the film is, I want to focus on the violence. My daughter felt the violence wasn’t that extreme and it was needed for the plot. As for me, seeing knives plunged into people at close range and seeing a giant rock smashed ultra-realistically into a person’s head just turned my stomach. There could be violence without it being THIS extreme and THIS personal and close-up.

So, overall it’s still a good film but one I really wish I hadn’t seen.

Thoroughly entertaining

PARASITE is an excellent effort from Korean director Bong Joon Ho, a talent I’ve long admired since seeing THE HOST over a decade ago. He’s had his ups and downs over the years, although they’ve generally been ups rather than downs, but this is perhaps his towering masterpiece. It’s a quiet and reflective work, his maturist yet, a parable playing out which looks at class divide in a scathing and extremely telling way. The issue is universal, which is why this film did so well abroad (and at the Oscars), although I’ve been championing the quality of South Korean cinema for a long time. The technical qualities are exemplary and the acting is particularly astounding, with an unusual storyline building to an unexpected climax. A film that thoroughly entertains as well as making you think.

class warfare

The Kim family leeches off others and lives in a basement apartment. The son Ki-woo gets a job tutoring a young girl. Using a series of lies, each member of the Kim family gets a job at the rich Park family home.

I actually found the Kim family too annoying to watch at the beginning. The pizza box incident reminds me of some real life people who are impossible to work with. It’s frustrating to sit through. It took a couple of tries. I prefer my grifting with better humor and better style. This family is just annoying. Pizza girl should never hire them for anything. It does get better. There is better humor and I get more in tune with the movie as it continues. I would prefer the driver to be less horny. He needs to be a complete saint. In fact, the rich family needs to be perfect at first so that they can slowly reveal their flaws. Also, they need to lay down the ghost story much earlier and sprinkle in some clues. The twist is unforeseen. That’s mostly good but it would be better if the audience can suspect something like that. I do like the smell aspect. It’s foreshadowed well and has a great build-up. There are scenes which I can almost smell. This is a very compelling statement about class in society.