"Parasite" is a sensational hit comedy of Korean cinema. Staged by director Bong Joon-ho, he is also involved in creating the screenplay for the movie. The comedy with profound messages has been mentioned a lot in the press of both the East and the West in the past year. It is also a rare film of Asian cinema to achieve so much glory.
The story follows the members of the Kim family - the poor people, have found a way to penetrate the wealthy Park family. The Kim family has implemented many plans so gradually all of their family members, including parents and children, will be allowed to work for the Park.
They have gradually "penetrated" into the Park family by pretending to be people with advanced degrees, experienced, to be hired, recruited. During the time working for the Park, the Kim members pretended not to have a close relationship.
The film was premiered at Cannes (France) and became the first Korean film to win the Palme d’Or with absolute consensus votes from the jury members.
When the film was widely released in the world, "Parasite" was hailed as one of the best Korean films. The film appeared in many lists of the top 10 best movies of the year and even the top of the best films of the world cinema in 2010.
The film grossed $ 166 million from the worldwide box office with a production budget of just $ 11 million. This is the highest-grossing film of director Bong’s career and the third highest-grossing film in Korean film history.
"Parasite" has received numerous film awards
"Parasite" has received numerous film awards. At the Oscars, the film is receiving 6 nominations, including nominations in important categories such as Best International Film - Director - International Film. "Parasite" was the first Korean film to make a big hit at the Oscars.
The film deals with the gap between rich and poor, contains many emotions: humor, horror, instinct ... The "rise" of the Kim family and finally the bloody conflict that made the film go from comedy to ending with tragedy.
Parasite has a clever way of script building and staging. The story is set in Korea but can happen anywhere else. The characters in the film have an internal reflection that makes it easy for Western viewers to understand the movie.
The themes reflected in the film are also stories of a modern age and familiar to viewers around the world, that is the story of personality - dignity, class - position, and the struggles in life.
With open space and geometric design, the modern and classy Park of the Park becomes the main setting of the film, which is also the place to hide horrors. At first, the Park mansion appeared in the movie with a clean, bright look, a destination of hope for each member of the Kim family.
The themes reflected in the film are also modern stories
The spacious, bright, neat and tidy space of the Park house is completely opposite to the Kim’s cramped, cramped, dark, damp and stinking living space.
The poor apartment in the basement is where the father - Mr. Kim Ki-taek and his wife and children live. Mr. Kim does not have a stable job, perhaps throughout his life, he has nothing but a poor apartment and affection for his wife and children.
The family of four Kim lived on a tight life by seasonal jobs, when viewers began to get acquainted with them, they were receiving pizza boxes quickly. In fact, such struggles are still insignificant for the Kim family members, because their poor lives have more humiliating things than that, but because they have gotten used to it, everything "so so".
The circumstances of the Kim family change when their son - Ki-woo - gets a "lucrative" part-time job - becoming an English tutor to the daughter of a wealthy family - the Park.
The moment Ki-woo walks on a quiet, deserted street in a strange way to find the Park’s mansion to bring the first wide-open scenes, because the context is no longer limited to the basement house. again. Ki-woo enters a completely different world from his environment. What is seen in the Park house is the opposite of the situation of Kim’s deprivation.
To Ki-woo and the other members of the Kim family, the Park mansion is like a dream
To Ki-woo and the other members of the Kim family, the Park mansion is like a dream that their whole family will penetrate in many ways.
The Kim members snatched up and grabbed Park’s job positions, such as tutoring, butler, and driving. They have lied about qualifications and experience, used tricks and tricks to dislodge people who are in those positions, using playfulness to slowly penetrate the Park house.
The Park House easily accepts newcomers without any thorough examination of identity, qualifications, all through referrals, a few more papers are given.
They are actually not as easily deceived as Ki-taek thought, but actually, the Park family is rich but does not have enough education and knowledge to control these issues well. Wealth has helped them hide their poor silly.
In the family life, the Park couple cannot afford to cook, clean, take care of and educate their children. They are very clumsy and helpless in all that. Many will wonder what the title of the movie title - "Parasite" - is. When watching the movie, they will immediately think that the Kim members lived "parasitically" in the Park.
In contrast, the Park members also live "parasitically" in the Kim, because they need help in many aspects of life. Kim Dynasty cheated and opportunity; Park’s house is stupid and helpless. They lived together parasitically very funny (before the tragedy happened).
Director Bong highly values the way of filming in "Parasite".
Director Bong highly values the way of filming in "Parasite". The movement of the camera always makes viewers feel curious and curious about what will happen next on the screen. The shooting of "Parasite" made them unable to lose focus and always felt restless waiting for the next surprise.
When filming the Kim family, their members often jammed the whole picture, sometimes even out of frame. This shot emphasizes the Kim’s solidarity, exploits the oppressive cramped space of their living space, and heralds a "total attack" of the Kim family to the Park.
Director Bong has no sentimental sentiments in the way the Kim family is portrayed, their attachment or poverty are portrayed very well by him.
To the Park family, he shows the distant, loose and superficial family of this family by rarely having all four Park members present in one frame, he always puts the members in a private space. for them in the middle of a large mansion.
The turning point of the movie appears when the Park family has a long trip
The turning point of the movie appears when the Park family has a long trip, taking advantage of the situation, the Kim immediately feasts in the mansion. The fun was interrupted when the old butler returned with a startling secret. At this point, the characters begin to become more violent, the scenes take place more naked, the laughter is also more scary.
The calm, indifferent, ingenious talent of the Kim members, which has brought laughter to the viewers since the beginning of the movie ... is no more. The inevitable and violent conflict that broke out ...
