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Parasite- Movie Review




Parasite Movie Review
Before reviewing the movie I want to take a moment to acknowledge the writer and director Bong Joon-ho’s directorial vision in filmmaking and his execution of the craft. Bong Joon-ho has delivered a movie with all the elements of humor, comedy, suspense, thriller and drama. He has not compromised a single bit in any aspects making the movie close to perfect.

Parasite can be stated as an allegory which bluntly showcases the socio-economic class differences prevalent in the society. The movie takes us on a roller-coaster ride keeping us on the edge of the seat every time as the movie veer off from comedy to drama to suspense and thriller. The background music equally complements the scenes of the movie. 

The movie starts with the introduction of the Kim family where four people live in a poorly lit semi-basement house, Kim along with his wife Chung-sook, son Ki-woo, and daughter Ki-jeong. By the few minutes into the movie we can clearly see their claustrophobic and  impoverished lifestyle and their struggle to make ends meet. A turn in their life comes when son Ki-woo is offered an opportunity to tutor a girl ‘Da-hye’ in a rich Park family. The Park family lives at a higher leveled mansion both metaphorically and literally. The mansion is well lit and spacious, totally opposite of where Kim family lives. Slowly and steadily with their cunning plan the Kims infiltrate the Park house in a hope to improve their economic condition and reach higher in the class level. What happens next is a series of interwoven events which leads to further events, revelations and a dramatic climax.

The class differences are clearly shown in the movie in various scenes like the ones where wife of Park Choi Yeon-gyote and Kim are returning home and how she says that the rain last night was such a blessing. The same rain had destroyed the Kim’s house. 
Apart from the story of the movie, the other aspects like setting up a stage in a scene or cinematography and lightning is well planned and portrayed on the screen. The use of standard lens showing the Kim family in their sub-basement house makes us feel claustrophobic whereas later the cinematographer chooses wide lens showing spacious entirety of the mansion hinting us the openness Kim's family are experiencing.  
The movie makes us rethink the title again “Parasite” so who are the parasite actually are, the poor Kim's family who are secretly infiltrating and taking advantage of the rich Park family or the rich Park family who had made the money and social status by feeding off the poor. In a nutshell Parasite is an Oscar worthy movie and I wouldn't be surprised if it wins Oscars in Best International Feature Film category.
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