Parasite - Bong Joon-ho

Real Bloodsuckers: Parasite

In the movie, which starts with images dominated by a general Asian and Asian life, we meet the KI-Taek family living in an old house and struggling to survive.

The life of the family, who tries to survive by trying various ways, changes their life completely when the house son Kevin begins to teach a rich family with the help of a friend. Parasite, which pushed us to be a side in the first and second half, is a movie that wants us to believe that it is not at all and contains many different options.

When we think that the family who are fond and try to survive enter the house with dishonesty, do their job properly and earn money, we think that they are like a “parasite” that gnaws the house. However, the movie wants us to reject this idea from the second half. So much so that capitalism rose in South Korea, as in the rest of the world, and the rich was richer and the poor were poorer. 

Although the family we saw in Parasite came to us as a rodent in the first half of the movie, this idea changes in the second half. It is emphasized that the main rodents are capitalism.

Thousands of families like the Ki-Taek family struggle to survive the night when the country is flooded, and while lying in the gym, the main “parasites” make love in their houses with rain views. While the life of the lower income group continues in a terrible way in the country, the upper income group of the country organizes parties in the same routine lives and they spend their days. For this reason, the unfair distribution of income has created people who live the luxury on one side, and on the other, they created people who had to breathe the smell of everyone, trying to get along by folding pizza cartons, in a somewhere on the other.

No change in the lives of the rich after the flooded, will seriously upset the Ki-Taek family. Perhaps they will better understand what injustice is at that time. 

As a result, Parasite describes the injustice between classes in a very harsh and impressive way with its highly universal exploitation system. Kim's family will be reminded of that chasm and the cruelty of inequity in ways you couldn’t possibly predict.