[ANALYSIS] Parasite: The division of the rich and the poor with honor
Definitely coming here, we all have to recognize the influence of the film director Parasite (Parasite) after it won at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival. Bong Joon-Ho can be said to be the best director in Korea today, owning only 8 films during 19 years of pursuing art, but his cinematographic works have made their own mark. viewers must enjoy and admire the twist plot, the spectacular transition.
Perhaps for those who have seen the movie director Bong Joon-Ho, can be told in turn or in order of
1.Mother
2. Memories of murder
3. Parasite
4. The Host
5. Snowpiercer.
6. Barking Dogs Never Bite
7. Tokyo!
Director Bong Joon-Ho and director Alejandro González Iñárritu at Cannes Film Festival
then you can vaguely guess that the main style he pursues is Dark Comedy, when every story he tells is a tragedy filled with laughter. The characters are always pushed into the most ironic situations: an emotional local police officer and a professional serial killer who is perfect.
1 "infected" family and the journey to save her daughter from the Han River monster; 1 mother determined to protect her child from murder; or a train carrying the last surviving people in the world - very clearly dividing the filthy sterns, and the classy, classy ones.
He placed the characters in the classes and hierarchies very clearly - so that when they tried to reach the position that did not belong to them in the beginning, the wobbly circumstances would be pushed higher and higher.
The Parasite is no exception, and it can be said that it is a perfect fragment of Bong Joon Ho; with really great visuals and storytelling, creating a ton of comedy that you will go from surprise to surprise. The film is about an incredible relationship between a poor, impoverished family, living in a shabby house with windows across the street; and a wealthy, luxurious, elegant family, owning a vast villa with impressive architecture. Money clearly distinguishes their hierarchy in society, and money also turns them into very different people, though maybe they have no choice to become like that.
Perhaps this is one of the films that won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival most easily watched in the past few years, which is even easier to watch than Shoplifters because the film has a high entertainment content, attractive details, beautiful images. with the charm of making laughter. Although Bong Joon Ho himself shared that the film is about Korean society, it might be a little hard to watch for foreign audiences.
But actually the problem that he posed is very close, humane and easily attracts viewers to be attracted no matter what country they come from and how they come from. It is really so good that Nextphim recommends that you should go to see immediately rather than waiting to watch online HD on movies, movies, hdonlines ..., to better understand and life and people, to have yourself a unique cinematic experience, and I believe you will not be disappointed.
During the monitoring of Parasite and especially when the final footage is closed, it is hard to say that we cannot choke some emotions. Perhaps no one can imagine the humorous story at first had such bloody outcome. Next Next film analyzed through 3 episodes of the story:
Chapter 1 - Family fraud
Act 1 can be said to have started the film in a very bright way, when the poor family of Ki-taek's father earned a heavenly opportunity to step in to work for the wealthy family of Director Park. The audience quickly gets acquainted with the mischievous characters of the poor family, and can foresee that they will gradually find a way to "bring" each other into the rich family. Bong Joon Ho has chosen an extremely intelligent way of guiding emotions and keeping a good rhythm for the audience's interest, when you will not have a minute of neglect - because the movie will always be full of details. interesting serial.
An interesting detail at this time is that his friend Min not only introduced Ki-woo to be an English tutor to the Park family, but also gave the family a stone scene - which, as he said, will bring money and luck. It was this stone that later played a very important role in the development of Ki-woo character in Parasite.
Chapter 2 - The secret of the stairs in the secret vault
We think the movie will revolve around 2 families - 2 main classes. But no, the movie goes even lower, deeper than literally: a family "parasitic" in the basement of that lavish mansion.
When the old butler character returned with a puzzled smile on his face, really different from the previous polite manner, he really felt chilling. I had many conjectures in my mind, but I couldn't imagine a tunnel below - and a husband who lived there for 4 years!
The confrontation between the two parasitic families has pushed the story to a new level of comedy, when the crooks meet and demand to bring each other to light. They were exposed to the whole lie, miserable, and at the same time clumsy in the role of scammers, despite their inner nature, they just want to continue with what they have tried to set before. . When the interests collided, the war broke out - and it only ended when the owner of the apartment was on his way home.
When tying Geun-se, the husband of the old butler, Ki-taek asked him: Why can you live in a place like this ??
Do you feel the irony? When a guy living in a shabby house, a window across the road, had to sit in the bathroom to have wifi like Ki-taek, one day he could ask another person that question; while we ask ourselves: Why does the Ki-taek family live in that tiny house?
It turns out, no matter where you are in society, there will always be people shorter than you and higher than you, just whether you know it or not. The same questionful question was, as expected, a somewhat tragic ending: Ki-taek himself will give himself the answer when he lives in the basement himself.
In this episode, after a mess, Parasite messages are also more clearly expressed through conversations between the characters.
One of the most favorite parts of the movie is when the poor family is under the living room table, the rich couple lies on the sofa to watch their son, who likes to sleep in an outdoor tent. They talk about "smell", a very sensitive and seemingly small sign, but a sign to distinguish between rich and poor.
In episode 1, the young son Da-song also realized that the driver, the butler and the art teacher smelled the same. After that, the whole family decided to change soap and washing powder.
However, the smell here is not the smell of bathing suits or clothes.
The smell here is the smell of poverty.
Mr. Park said everything of the driver Kim, or Ki-taek, is acceptable, only his smell is going over the limit. Mr. Park envisioned it as the smell of people washing rags, the smell of rotten radish, the smell of subway riders.
To Ki-taek, silence lies under the table listening to people talking about a smell that he cannot possibly wash away. Humiliated and extremely bitter. It was this sentence that began to change Ki-taek's mind and, in his opinion, touched on one of the most valuable things a poor man like him could keep: self-respect.
Later, when Ki-jung's daughter asked what to do with the people in the basement, he first showed the status of a father in the family, telling the children to rest assured that dad would have his own plan. yourself.
By the end of the episode, everything was "literally dike water," literally, when heavy rain caused their slum to flood their houses. And each of them falls into separate lines of thought.
Ki-taek returns home, and the first thing he saves from the flood is his medal - one of the rare and only pride he has in life. And surely the moment of humiliation under the table, he realized that people could not live humiliated and without pride. When you are no longer proud, you are no longer a human being. Ki-taek also bitterly talks about the floating fate of people at the bottom of society (though, in fact, you will never know who is at the bottom): There is no need to plan, because life will not obey it.
The boy hugged the landscape stone, while the light kept flashing and flashing. He said: The stone goes with you, but the stone represents money and happiness; the stone symbolizes the desire to change life in the soul of a smart, bright young man; The stone is also a burden that he has carried over the years.
When the old butler character returned with a puzzled smile on his face, really different from the previous polite manner, he really felt chilling. I had many conjectures in my mind, but I couldn't imagine a tunnel below - and a husband who lived there for 4 years!
The confrontation between the two parasitic families has pushed the story to a new level of comedy, when the crooks meet and demand to bring each other to light. They were exposed to the whole lie, miserable, and at the same time clumsy in the role of scammers, despite their inner nature, they just want to continue with what they have tried to set before. . When the interests collided, the war broke out - and it only ended when the owner of the apartment was on his way home.
When tying Geun-se, the husband of the old butler, Ki-taek asked him: Why can you live in a place like this ??
Do you feel the irony? When a guy living in a shabby house, a window across the road, had to sit in the bathroom to have wifi like Ki-taek, one day he could ask another person that question; while we ask ourselves: Why does the Ki-taek family live in that tiny house?
It turns out, no matter where you are in society, there will always be people shorter than you and higher than you, just whether you know it or not. The same questionful question was, as expected, a somewhat tragic ending: Ki-taek himself will give himself the answer when he lives in the basement himself.
In this episode, after a mess, Parasite messages are also more clearly expressed through conversations between the characters.
One of the most favorite parts of the movie is when the poor family is under the living room table, the rich couple lies on the sofa to watch their son, who likes to sleep in an outdoor tent. They talk about "smell", a very sensitive and seemingly small sign, but a sign to distinguish between rich and poor.
In episode 1, the young son Da-song also realized that the driver, the butler and the art teacher smelled the same. After that, the whole family decided to change soap and washing powder.
However, the smell here is not the smell of bathing suits or clothes.
The smell here is the smell of poverty.
Mr. Park said everything of the driver Kim, or Ki-taek, is acceptable, only his smell is going over the limit. Mr. Park envisioned it as the smell of people washing rags, the smell of rotten radish, the smell of subway riders.
To Ki-taek, silence lies under the table listening to people talking about a smell that he cannot possibly wash away. Humiliated and extremely bitter. It was this sentence that began to change Ki-taek's mind and, in his opinion, touched on one of the most valuable things a poor man like him could keep: self-respect.
Later, when Ki-jung's daughter asked what to do with the people in the basement, he first showed the status of a father in the family, telling the children to rest assured that dad would have his own plan. yourself.
By the end of the episode, everything was "literally dike water," literally, when heavy rain caused their slum to flood their houses. And each of them falls into separate lines of thought.
Ki-taek returns home, and the first thing he saves from the flood is his medal - one of the rare and only pride he has in life. And surely the moment of humiliation under the table, he realized that people could not live humiliated and without pride. When you are no longer proud, you are no longer a human being. Ki-taek also bitterly talks about the floating fate of people at the bottom of society (though, in fact, you will never know who is at the bottom): There is no need to plan, because life will not obey it.
The boy hugged the landscape stone, while the light kept flashing and flashing. He said: The stone goes with you, but the stone represents money and happiness; the stone symbolizes the desire to change life in the soul of a smart, bright young man; The stone is also a burden that he has carried over the years.
Ki-jung has a perfectly beautiful scene in this section, and is undoubtedly the most haunting scene in the Parasite. In the middle of the bathroom flooded with sewage, on the lid of the toilet that was about to be flipped up by the dirty black water, the young girl lit a cigarette, sat on the toilet, next to the tiny window, let out a long breath. . That moment, it seems that all social boundaries are no more. And Ki-jung really owns his life.
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