I Love Films That Make Me Think About Life
Parasite (Bong Joon-Ho, Korea, 2019).
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEUXfv87Wpk]
I am not usually fond of hyperboles, but I must start my review with one. It is official, there are two kinds of movies in 2019, Korean ones and the rest.
Ki-Woo is the male son of a very poor family. He is hired as a private teacher by a very wealthy family. Then he makes a plan to have the servants and chauffeur replaced by his parents and sister.
There are dozens of films about class struggle, but very few of them explain it in such a detailed way. Seldom we see how the poor and the rich live completely different lives, and how a random atmospherical phenomenon like a thunderstorm can be a beautiful show in one case, and a disaster in the other. Or how there are traits (like their smell) that will always remind the poor of their poverty. Or how there are different degrees among the least fortunate, and petty struggles inside the class struggle.
However the story may sound, the movie is full of intelligent humour, a great cinematography, and a plot with incredible, totally unexpected twists.
A movie that grabs you by the neck, forces you to look at it and wonder who is really the parasite in our society.
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEUXfv87Wpk]
I am not usually fond of hyperboles, but I must start my review with one. It is official, there are two kinds of movies in 2019, Korean ones and the rest.
Ki-Woo is the male son of a very poor family. He is hired as a private teacher by a very wealthy family. Then he makes a plan to have the servants and chauffeur replaced by his parents and sister.
There are dozens of films about class struggle, but very few of them explain it in such a detailed way. Seldom we see how the poor and the rich live completely different lives, and how a random atmospherical phenomenon like a thunderstorm can be a beautiful show in one case, and a disaster in the other. Or how there are traits (like their smell) that will always remind the poor of their poverty. Or how there are different degrees among the least fortunate, and petty struggles inside the class struggle.
However the story may sound, the movie is full of intelligent humour, a great cinematography, and a plot with incredible, totally unexpected twists.
A movie that grabs you by the neck, forces you to look at it and wonder who is really the parasite in our society.
