Father, mother, daughter, and son – all unemployed – con a wealthy family into giving them jobs and manage to get access to their house… that is more than meets the eye.
Joon-ho Bong… the writer/director that brought you Memories of Murder (2003), The Host (2006), Tokyo! (2008), Snowpiercer (2013), and Okja (2017), to name but a few, strikes back with a comedy, drama, and thriller that makes you laugh, cry, and hold your breath, and not necessarily in that order. Avoid spoilers at all costs. Parasite deserves to be watched with an “uninfected” mind. Then, and only then, jump to conclusions about its metaphors, Bong’s thematic similarities with previous films, the clash of classes, and how similar concepts have been filmed in ways that yield entirely different results. Bring to your mind a new or an old film, one that had an impact on you or simply became popular. I still can’t stop comparing it and contrasting it to the same year’s Us (2019). Enough said…
Parasite is the first Korean film to win the Palme d’Or at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, and I can only imagine how Bong fell during the prolonged standing ovation it received. Hats off, and congratulations to all cast and crew.
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