the ending song of this movie is called "564 yrs" in which it was explained that its the amount of time his son would take inorder to save money to buy that house. its just sad as hell
31:13 "if y'all applied this much energy into actually doing something positive, you wouldn't have to leech off of them like that" Y'all are so close 😭. Parasite, like every Bong Joon-ho film, is about and explores class. The poorer family aren't poor for lack of effort or intelligence. The father had tried to start several different businesses, and had worked several different jobs- they all failed. The mother was a gold medal athlete. The son is said to be smarter than a lot of college students, and the sister is incredibly intelligent. Their poor living conditions were not for lack of effort. The poorer family has had to adapt to survive and without a doubt put in more work than the wealthier family. They were simply born unlucky. South Korea, like many countries including the US, has high disparity between the rich and poor. High youth unemployment rates, high prices of housing, high cost of living. Extremely high competition in terms of education, super low wages for entry level jobs- etc. As you may have seen in Squid Game, almost half of South Korea's population owes debt. And a lot of times that debt is owed to illegal firms aka loan sharks. If you owe debt to these people, the interest is insane- if you can't pay it back awful things could happen (like in Squid Games; they could make you sign away the rights to your organs) If you die, that debt is just passed on to your family members. The poorer family obviously loves each other a lot, and will do what they can to survive day to day. If that means leaching off of a careless absurdly rich family- so be it. They're forced to survive, and if they see an opportunity- they'll take it. It might not be the most moral thing but morals don't feed your kids and put a roof over your head. And keep in mind they only got so far because the rich family is so used to their comfort and wealth that they don't care OR can't even fathom somebody needing to do that. The rich family are "nice" but also so comfortable they're ignorant. The poorer family's mom says once, "if I was that rich, I'd be nice too"
That's the point of this movie. The class divide is so stark that it doesn't matter how talented or intelligent you are, you are limited by the wealth class you are born into.
I actually felt bad for the family. I cried when Kevin was hit with rock and the ending too. The rock floated in the water because it was hallow which is why he survived. Otherwise he most certainly would have died. In the end it did not have any real value. I loved this movie. It's literally a masterpiece.
Wow... after seeing this movie several times, I'm only now realizing the deeper connections with the rock, beyond it just being an aspirational symbol. The amount of detail and layers Bong Joon-ho put into this film is just wild
The point is that the children are smart, but yet due to financial and power struggles they are seen as less than. They didn’t go to the biggest colleges or live in a nice home because they have no money. In this world money = power. It shows the struggles of society. The poor is willing to do anything for power and money, but the rich/wealthy become selfish when it comes to money as well as power. The fact that in the end the father of the son didn’t care about the fact that there were hella people hurt shows how selfish they are..ofc that’s your child, but as a parent I could never allow anyone’s child to hurt in front of me. I could go into more detail because these aren’t the best descriptions of the power struggle between the rich and poor in this movie.
One thing to think about with this movie (which I was so excited to see you guys watched! ) the poor family aren't necessarily bad people I'd say, they're just victims of a terrible system they happened to be born into. Same with the wealthy family- It isn't necessarily hard work or being "good people" that got them to where they are, as much as luck of being born into in the right economic class. The tragedy of this story is that no matter how hard the poor family worked or how clever they were, the class disparity is so crazy that they were never going to escape their poverty. Which sort of makes their behavior a little more understandable.
U 100% explained it in an amazing way in a very sociological way… in one of my sociology classes we talked abt this movie and this was almost the same way my professor explained it❤
That doesn't make it any less true that they did things that their poverty absolutely does not excuse, and that their plan's catastrophic failure was ultimately their own doing.
I'm sure there's going to be a lot of people commenting this, but I feel you're looking at the movie at a very surface level. Their situation is not a simple 'work hard and you'll succeed story'. Their poverty keeps them in a vicious cycle where they cannot escape from. We are shown and told numerous times that they are smart, crafty individuals (which you have also noticed a few times) and they do work hard (they mention a few times that they've had different jobs in the past, even a restaurant business; the sister is very talented at arts and obivously worked hard to learn both art and photoshop). But their economic status keeps them behind other people. In this capitalist society where money rule they just had the bad luck to be born without any money. So no matter how hard they work because there's so much competition they will always fall behind people who can use their money to boost them in life. The rich are not rich because they are exceptional individuals but because they were simply lucky to be born in the right family. That does not excuse hurting other people, of course. But this is not a fable meant to teach what good morals are, but a critique of our society where the poor have no choice but to go to extreme lengths to simply survive. While the rich get richer and remain completely oblivious to it(or simply choose to ignore "lesser" people - "do not cross the line ;). I would definitely recommend watching some video essays on this movie. I think you would enjoy it and it would be very eye opening.
like at 1:18:22, can a person living in a semi-basment house with those type of living standards due to their parents’ misfortunes and decisions be able to live a life like those children born into wealth through no efforts of their own? quite unlikely.
You gotta think of the economic and social difference of where you live and where they live. The difficulties of getting work even if you're educated, the disparity of the working class from the rich, the age differences. What may be weird to you may be the normal way of life to others. 😅
It’s really interesting watching reactions of this movie and seeing people put themselves in the shoes of the rich family (imagining what they would do if that happened to them) vs the shoes of the poor family, not realizing that we’re all a whole lot closer to the latter (being “parasites”) rather than the former.
that scene where the rich mother going inside her wardrobe with many nice oufits and the next scene is people at the basketball court getting free clothes. horrible
Great to see your reaction. Not sure if anyone mentioned it, but most of Bong Joon-Ho's films have some element addressing climate change and how it affects poor people more than the rich. Notice how the rain storm was just a minor inconvenience to the rich family but the poor family almost lost everything due to flooding. The set and houses were designed to show how the poor family lived partially underground. These are real apartments in South Korea along with others that are completely below ground with no light. When Seoul had severe flooding in last few years several people lost their lives in these apartments. Bong Joon-Ho said he was interested in how a parasite finds a host, but what if there's already a parasite using that host? He said, unfortunately, poor people end up having to step on each other to stay alive instead of joining together to fight the systems that keep them poor. You can also see these themes in his movie Snowpiercer.
Mr Kim said "the best plan is no plan at all". At the ending, mr kim's son start write a letter and begins with "i have a plan..". So it means, he would never buy the house, the dad wont make it
And also the stone is floating at the flood scene, which mean it's a fake stone. And in the dream at the ending scene, the stone is at the bottom of the river like the other stone. This indicates the distance between reality and expectations
You guys say if they put this smart/energy towards something productive they can achieve success. But this is wrong. The difference between us and korea. Is that in the US if your from a poor family and hardworking you can succeed. Its much easier to get into a good college as SATs are much easier and you can go through the community college route. They also have financial aid. But in korea you cant. if your from a poor family, chances are your going to stay that way. To get a high salary job in korea you need to come from one of the best colleges and have connections. Even doctors/lawyers arent paid that well if you dont have connections. Connections mostly come from your family or college. You can only get into college by CSAT. You cant just be smart to do well on CSAT. CSAT is on a TOTALLY DIFFERENT LEVEL compared to SAT. Lots of kids in korea go to cram school starting from elementary, junior or high school. Every day they are studying for their CSAT. Cram schools are expensive too. Richer kids are able to get private tutors or get into better cram schools. So they already have the edge compare to poorer families.
i wouldn’t say it’s easier in the U.S but i agree that if you’re born into a poor family in korea, you’re most likely to stay poor. the reactors problem is that they viewed the whole movie based solely on the actions that everyone took instead of looking at the bigger picture. the whole point of the movie is to criticize the disparity in wealth in korea, and how there’s almost zero chance for anyone to get out of being poor. basically, from what i’ve seen, the reactors are purely brainwashed by capitalism to genuinely believe that the poor family could’ve made it out of where they were living in any way. lol
It's so odd that they are rooting for the rich family like a lot of points was missed here about social classes. I understand them thinking the actions that the poor family did was bad but they just kept shitting on them and didn't even try to understand even a little bit.
Us rooting for the rich family is a stretch. Us wanting to make sure people don’t get hurt by further bad decisions is more so what we are rooting for. -Adison
I mean, what did the rich family really do wrong? The poor family specifically got 2 people fired for no reason. If it's a question of morality, who behaved in a more moral way and who didn't??
@@theoblongbox4909 Yes the poor family got two people fired, but the old house keeper was also hiding her husband in the house. They are all "parasites" fighting over the scraps left by the rich. And even though they fought to the death, they still saw each other as human beings. But the rich dad did not. If the rich dad knew who they really were, he'd think they were cockroaches. As the two families killed each other essentially over the rich family, all the rich dad could feel towards them was disgust and apathy. This is why the poor dad killed the rich dad, because the rich dad is monstrous in his refusal to acknowledge their humanity, even as they fought to serve him and his family.
I been reading every single comment below and whoever is Adison isnt Getting what these comment are telling. The people in comment understood the movie but you didnt.
Baby bottle is because he hasn't eaten for days and she didn't want him to consume too fast. Baby formula is made for easy digestion. Also the reason for banana. These are details you normally wouldn't see in other movies.
If you watch the tense parts of the movie at 1.5x speed, I think the tension in the film decreases by about three times. I know many people who have watched this movie more than three times.It's such an excellent film, and especially the contrast between the first half and the latter half's tension makes this movie even more special. But watching the crucial part of the movie, the latter half, at 1.5x speed? Oh my goodness! It's like swallowing wine without savoring its taste, and I believe it's like not fully enjoying half of the fun this movie has to offer.
They are just stupid americanz that watch only marvel and listen hiphop ,I’m sure they didn’t get the point of the movie absolutely 😂Thwy just watchd for quick just to be trendy
@@RocZi they DID NOT lmao.. some part of the clips were speed up to accurately match what they watched because of the talking they had in between... OP making stupid assumption because he dont know how editing works
I think A LOT of people don't understand the film. Most people just think "oh parasite, because the poor people are leeching" when in reality it's so much more than that.
@@ednknowing the tone of bong joon ho’s other works (snowpiercer, okja, etc) - he definitely didn’t intend the poor people to be the “parasites” 😂 *edit: parasites in nature feed off of something, with the parasite being the only thing that “benefits” at the end of the day. The rich stay safe in their (literally) glass houses, despite all the world throws at them. The rest of society is left to languish and become corrupted by their desperation over the scrapes/the limited resources leftover from what the wealthy and powerful haven’t hoarded and only ever end up hurt in the long run for it.
@@edn Calling a subscriber blind is easy. Accepting your shallow knowledge of class inequity and actually reading about the film analysis would take time and humility. You got neither, Ma'am? It's not a thriller or mystery story. It is an example of how the rich are the true parasites who live off cheap labour - and hoard so much wealth , that the poor are pit against each other, just to survive. Anyone who says " work hard and you'll succeed" is foolishness personified
I took a whole class in college that was centered around this movie and let me just say, all of your takes about it are completely normal and valid. Y'all are looking at it from a moral, straight-forward, common sense perspective. The class was pretty split as far as opinions... some thought the poor family took it too far and deserved the tragic outcome. Some sympathized way too much with the poor family and equated being poor with justification for what they did. Others had a more nuanced approach and judged both families in the context of how difficult it can truly be to raise a family in a highly capitalistic, competitive society, especially when you're trying to scrape your way up from the bottom. Some people hold onto their dignity and morals no matter what, while others don't. At the end of the day, every individual is different, hence, why people's opinions on this movie are so diverse. Great reaction :)
They aren’t full of resentment the day of the party initially. They’re just exhausted because they lost everything, they’re homeless after this natural disaster that effected a whole community, they got no sleep, endangered themselves by going into their dwelling to grab the few things they could. Then they gotta show up to a party and act happy and normal? I couldn’t.
you're looking at bad and good in such a linear way... the world isn't bad or good it just is... these people born into these circumstances are surviving any way they can, animals do that in the wild all the time. Yes as human beings we have choices, but we will never understand the lives and choices of someone living in TRUE poverty, where you don't know if you will have a roof over your head or money for your next meal, so those people come into a world that constantly teaches them lessons of cruelty and unfairness and they do what they have to do to Survive. In asian countries especially wealth and education is the biggest priority, and people who are not able to go these traditional are usually shunned by society and looked down upon so people literally will do whatever they can to achieve wealth and status, its literally subhuman how cleaners, maids, people doing service industry jobs are treated.
First off thanks for the comment and for checking out our reaction to Parasite! I do have a question for you though. Without any further context. If someone came into your home and stabbed your loved ones to death. Would you really still say "nothing bad happened" it just is what it is? -Adison
@@ednthe thing is you're looking at it on surface level. Stabbing someone? Bad. Is the movie about morals? No. The film is about wealth disparity. It's about how we live in a system that makes the poor poorer and the rich richer. Need, poverty, distress, makes people do unimaginable things because humans are full of survival instinct. The rich family looked down constantly on the poor throughout the whole movie. "The line" creates an us vs them mentality, the father was fine as long as poor people didn't cross the (class) line. The mother being thankful for the rain because of how a beautiful day it was afterwards, while poor citizens lost homes. They got rid of the nanny for "TB", instead of waiting for her to get better and letting her rest. Why? Bcs us, working class people, are disposable. No matter how smart, how clever, how resourceful, without the luck, the right conditions, connections, you'll never get out of poverty because of how the system has been set up. When the father in the shelter says "the best plan that doesn't fail is having no plan"? Yeah. That hits. When you live day to day, that's it, there's no planning for the future, no saving up, there is always an emergency you need to spend your meager savings on. You can't plan for the future when you have so many problems in the now. The true parasite of the film is hope. The hope the rich instill on the poor of "if you work hard enough you'll make it" when that is 99% of the time not the case, because the system has been set up against them. The rich will always benefit from the poor, they don't have any real reason from seeing us succeed, it's not convenient for them. Desperate need leads to desperate acts. I have more things to say probably but it's 3am and I have to be up at 7 for work.
@@edn Murder aint right but getting disgusted by the smell of a man dying infront of you shows you dont give value to humans u dont consider worthy of it, its as psychopathic as someone who kills someone else
@@jimjimcherie u made a lot of excellent points...its like someone stealing food and someone in a better position judging and condemning them...yes it was wrong but unless they've never really been hungry hungry..with cramps dizziness shivers etc they would never understand or empathize with why that person stole...
@@-Epiphany thank you! And exactly! My family went hungry, we went poor we lost our home, my family went from having a lot of money to none, I never saw the wealth of my family, but my parents lost everything, and growing up poor... that really changes the way you see things. It's been shown that poverty alters brain chemistry and development in children, we have worse memories, planning and decision-making abilities. So the wealthy with every opportunity in the world judging the poor doesn't sit right with me, when growing in poverty itself already puts you in a disadvantage on a development level.
I know some people said yall didnt really get the point of the film yall did to some degree 1 thing that flies over most people's head when watching the film is the rock when their basement was flooding the rock was floating it did not sink which means it was hollow inside and they were given that rock as a symbol of hope,wealth,and prosperity but it being hollow and not a rock the whole time just shows they were given false hope they were going to fail eventually and it being hollow is also the reason the son was able to survive the attack from the man in the basement
I’m glad to see people commenting on this reaction about the reactors’ superficial understanding of the movie. “What are they doing with the money?” “They can buy the house” “He bought the house at the end, he did what he could’ve done before & it only took him a few years”… How ignorant… Is it that easy to buy property in America? The director of the movie confirmed that it would take the boy 500 something years to buy it. How is the female reactor acting like they’re getting paid so much for their jobs at the house, enough to afford their own new house? Does she even know what currency South Korea use… They have BIG numbers… A lot of notes but with lower value… Honestly so so so superficial… It is NEVER black & white with class & wealth. I expected African Americans especially to realise this because of the generational class disparity that is passed down… Went over their heads…
Thanks for your comment. However, although the family was in a tough situation scamming people and murdering them is never the right way to do things. That's not superficial it just may be a hard fact that you may overlook because you feel more towards one side than the other. They have told us this since elementary school "two wrongs don't make a right". -Adison
@@edn LOLOLOLOL how one track minded can you get? Why do they scam? Why are they so opportunistic? How did the murder happen? You ought to ruminate on the whys. Two wrongs don't make a right? They are trying to survive. As someone commented down below in case you haven't read them because there are so many good comments - to a rich person, someone stealing food will be "bad" especially if YOU have never been that situation. At least try to think of the context. So superficial.
Hey I get all the intricacies that this movie has and believe me it is VERY WELL written. But point blank I won’t ever ask a killer, robber, or scammer why they chose to target me? I don’t care! They are wrong! I’m not someone else’s punching bag just because life hasn’t gone the way they would have liked. You can type any response you want but I doubt you’d be in some back alleyway thanking a robber for stealing from you because you are (by the world’s standards) considered more well off than they are. Let’s be real! You are talking to someone who has family and friends on both sides of the fence that this movie depicts, I wasn’t born yesterday. And I won’t let someone’s sympathy for evil make me feel any different about what evil is…EVIL. -Adison
@@edn If you're not going to try to understand the whys then why watch these kind of movies anyway lol... The example you gave of someone being robbed in a black alleyway - lol, this is completely different to the Park family's situation? First of all we are aware of, as you mentioned, of the circumstances of both families. & THAT is what would make us try to look beyond the superficial. This is not having sympathy for evil lol... This is acknowledging the fact that there is light/dark in all of us & depending on our circumstances some of us may be compelled to do "wrong" in societal standards like having to scam to survive & ensure financial stability. This excludes murder because that happened when things spiralled & was also due to the old maid's situation. It is not black/white.
Again. I saw the movie and and understood the underlying tones of what compelled the people to act in the way they did. This was a great film...one of the most thought provoking films we have seen on this channel. Still WRONG is WRONG. Even your last statement seems to passively push off the final violent acts. All the poor decisions that were made led up to an even more public and brutal poor decision. It's sad to see people making evil decisions...and it's sad to see people suffering from the evil decisions that others have made. -Adison
I love this movie! and I liked that you included scenes that other reactors usually don't include to cut time so I enjoyed the reaction. Btw they explained the reason why he stayed down there, its because they had a huge debt probably from an illegal place (gangster) with huge interest so you can never really pay it so they would literally follow him around and beat him up for the money so he escaped by staying down there since they had no money.
I appreciate that you weren't afraid to call out the Kims for the awful things they did. A lot of people make excuses for them because they're poor. Which I kind of get; I've been poor my whole adult life. And nobody asks to be poor, and it's monstrously unfair, and I feel the weight of it every day, and I have fantasies about a better life. So there are some bad deeds I'm willing to excuse if someone's trying to get by. A lot of what the Kims did goes wayyy beyond that. A lot of people also try to justify the heist or even Mr. Park's murder by pointing out how "bad" the Parks were - and then they cite things that literally aren't wrong at all, or totally victimless actions that reflect poorly on them but aren't actually hurting anyone. Certainly nothing that somehow deserves being scammed, let alone murdered. And if you have the integrity and good sense to simply point out as a bald fact that the Kims did wrong, or that they brought most of their ultimate fate on themselves, or that the Parks didn't deserve what happened to them - people tell you you didn't "get" the messages about class and privilege, or that you don't understand poverty, or that you're privileged. As if it's impossible to be aware of two things at the same time, or analyze a movie on more than one level. For what it's worth, Bong Joon-Ho said there are no villains in this movie. I think this is the fairest and most charitable interpretation. Nobody deserved any of this. Nobody deserved to be rotting in a sub-basement or a bunker. Nobody deserved to be cheated out of an honest job. Nobody deserved to be scammed. Nobody deserved to have their home flooded. Nobody deserved to be killed. Nobody deserved to be exploited. Nobody deserved to have their family broken.
I love the “don’t give the whole movie away” comment at the beginning because she really only highlighted the theme of the movie…there’s no way to really put into words the twists and turns the ACTUAL storyline takes lmao. It’s one of those that it’s best to go in blind because it is WILD.
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23:48 yup! it's korean buffet, but cheaper version, cost around $6 ~ $8 depend on the region. you can see the old people at the back. it's not that common to bring the whole family here, unless they're very young. most of the stuffs are cheap ones, like pork etc, no beef, no chicke, no, sea food. also, if you're too late, all the good ones will be gone. it's like a ... $ 6 lotto, in a way, perhaps? if i'm lucky, i can have lots of pork for $6, otherwise, i'll have some cheap stuffs like green vegetables and soy soup, with kim chi, etc 😷 oh, wait. it says "기사 식당" on the windows, which means, this buffet is for taxi drivers. we can eat there, too, but usually, it's the taxi drivers who are regular customers. it's not that common to bring the whole family there. mah, bad. the quality of the food is ok, i guess there, as otherwise, all those taxi drivers will find different korean buffet. it's a value for money restaurant. my mistake. they'll probably cost like ... $10 27:03 i beg to differ, bro. it's not because they can't check on them, but because they're rich koreans who made a lot of money and became an upper class family, so they try to speak a little bit of english in their conversation with other "upper class" people, and if they hire someone who's graduated from usa or used to live there, that means, they have the money to hire those socially upper class people as a tutor or driver etc. you see? to some south korean, usa is like the no.1 country on earth. the very best nation 32:12 😂 1:16:02 wow ~ you're really fast, man. you're like the first person i've seen who knew about the basement this fast 😯
First off thanks for tuning in! We will probably do another video doing a deep dive into the film and about the other plot points that we didn’t necessarily tackle in this reaction. We typically have longer discussions at the end of the movie but when we recorded this we actually all had to leave shortly after the film was over. Let me know what points you feel like we didn’t really notice and we can discuss those! -Adison
The line is the separation between family and the help. The poor dad keeps trying to talk to the rich dad like he's a friend instead of an employee. The rich dad at the end had to remind him that he's not a part of his son's birthday because he's a friend or close relations, but as a hired help.
The family's desperation is thier motivation, their actions were horrible, but how nuanced the characters are, you get why they do what they do, but it's still a horrible thing to do. They never poisoned the food they were gonna give to them, but they weren't able to, the husband was already on kill mode, the rich daughter was smart enough to get the poor son to a hospital quickly enough to save him, shows her empathy, and the rich dad having a reaction to that smell shows to the poor dad that he seems them as the same, even though he just killed his only daughter, no wonder he fully snapped. This is probably one of my favorite reactions to one of my favorite films of all time.
Y'all did miss a few things that require cultural context. The ages of the boy and girl weren't that great especially given the cultural norms and they don't view the whole high-school/college dichotomy as all that big of a deal. It's only "grooming" from an American pov. The rock represented luck. It looks like certain mountain formations in miniature so it's essentially a sculpture given a superstitious significance. The smell came from living below sea or sewer level, and why the toilet had to be above the basement apt level. The conflict w the housekeeper and husband show how poor people fight over scraps and some even worship the rich thankful for getting crumbs. The Parks weren't good people. Korea is a stratified society where movement into a different class than you were born is near impossible no matter how hard you work or how smart and capable you are. The Parks got the education and job befitting their privileged status. Their kids likewise had tutors, art therapists, housekeepers, drivers etc to continue the cycle. The wife had only to spend the money living in ignorant bliss. When the rain fell on the shining hill, it cleansed the air while devastating those in the gutter. You can say the Parks are the parasites living lives propped up by poor people while considering them only as paid servants. You only needed to notice the micro-aggressions aimed at Mr Kim for the most part... reluctantly shaking his hand, testing his driving on the DL, telling him to refrain from getting too familiar, telling him he's getting paid so he should change his attitude, then demanding Kim to drive from the scene.. and eventually to throw the keys as their art therapist was dying from stab wounds in his backyard
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31:00 “why yall so greedy” I hope at the end yall understand this is literally a critique of capitalism No matter how talented all of them are they can’t get ahead because the system is set up for a small group of rich people while everyone else suffers The flood analogy is perfect
Director said in South Korea where wealthy disparity has gotten so bad. Rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer. It will take total of 564 years for the son to save up enough money to buy that house. Which basically means it won’t happen. Same thing happened to the old housekeepers husband. Expect he borrowed money from loan sharks where they could literally forcefully take stuff from you or even kill you, etc. That’s why he has been hiding in the basement
I saw many people shocked to see the raised toilet. It is raised due to sewer level of the neighborhood. Plumbing fixtures cannot be lower than the city sewer level. Not common but there are neighborhoods like that and they live in sub basement unit. So when sewer floods.... they can burst out. This movie is very accurate.
Lol you know capitalism got you when you end up rooting for the condescending rich family who kept talking about not crossing the line between rich and poor, as in "You're just my help, act like it".... And the way they were fetishizing poor people buying drugs during their sexy time? They're not exactly "good people". Maybe it's the culture and language barrier. The mom for example was not trying to poison them at all... she was genuinely concerned and wanted to make sure they were good. Of course what the poor family did was morally wrong but put yourself in their shoes. Korea has a huge poverty problem and class also plays a huge part. They would never make it out of their status doing honest work. It's a cutthroat society. Good reaction nonetheless but I suggest you guys watch some analysises or video essays on this move to interpret it differently than yall have.
honestly came here to comment the same thing. They missed so many of the points the movie was trying to make. I usually like their reactions but this time I'm kinda let down.
I feel it’s the same with like the girl from inventing Anna . Rich people aren’t as on guard is poor people they don’t covet their stuff as much because when you have a lot things lose value and as far as recommendation, they don’t want to do extra work so if someone they trust or someone with money says it’s fine they usually believe it because getting scammed isn’t the same as getting scammed when you don’t have money.
Let me start with saying I love the channel and you guys reactions, so no shade here just offering perspective. This film isn’t meant to make you root for one family or the other. Neither family is more righteous. It’s not really about right or wrong or good or bad. Both families are the “parasite”. The poor family is leeching off of the rich family’s wealth and the rich family literally can’t handle their day to day life without relying on the services of the poor family. On a surface level you could say what the poor family did is “wrong” but history has shown us time and time again that people will do what they need to do to survive and that’s human nature. And they are in deep poverty, every day is fight or flight. They are fighting for survival daily. In the US, ghettos are rampant with people selling drugs, selling sex, and committing crimes just to escape poverty or survive. We have an understanding that these people are typically not “bad” people. They are products of their environments and victims of a messed up system. This family is no different. This story is about classism and wealth disparity. It’s not a question of who’s right or wrong but rather a question of is it fair for there to be a system in place that favors some people just because they were born in the right circumstances when there are other people who are obviously more intelligent, skilled, and hard working that have to stoop to crime just to escape their circumstances. “It’s never gonna be real”. What you said at the very end of the film. Yes. THAT is the point. That no matter what they can’t escape their situation because of the society and system that they are apart of.
A year late on my comment but I'd like to point out that the movie never confirmed if Da-hye was actually interested in Kevin's friend Min. The discussions regarding whether Min displayed predatory behavior was great but what about Da-hye feelings. Did Da-hye reciprocate Min's interest? Did Min have Da-hye's consent to have picture of her or did he take her image from one of the pictures on the wall in their house? If Da-hye never had an interest in Min or even knew that Min had an interest in her, it makes Min's predatory behavior 5x worse than originally thought - js
I cannot believe how many things you predicted SO far in advance, and so specifically! Crazy! On that metric I think this is the most impressive reaction I've seen to this movie.
Seems like you want people to empathize with someone does the wrong thing? It’s interesting to me how people forget the simple principle that two wrongs don’t make a right. -Adison
@@edn Haha there's tons of comments pointing out in detail and pretty respectfully about how you failed to grasp the concept of this movie, and from what you just commented here, it seems you're still stubborn about it. Please open yourselves to the critism you're receiving in this video, we're just pointing out the poor media literacy shown here, nothing else. There's no point getting defensive and personal about it. Go read about Bong Joon-ho vision behind the creation of this movie and maybe some more about class inequality cause you're clearly ignorant about it. You're replying to every comment talking about this issue instead of doing that and improving the quality of your reactions, that's a bad look. Don't expect people to ever come back to your channel again if there's no growth lol.
Funnest reaction to this movie I've seen yet! People are roasting y'all for not immediately understanding the wrongs of the wealthy family and the commentary on systemic inequality, but it's definitely more subtle than the rest. Subscribed.
I’m new so i think i missed his name in the beginning, but HUGE props/respect to dude in the red shirt at 8:40ish - women and girls really are gaslit on the reality of this by a lot of society.
Of course the woman in the room understands how predatory that man was being towards the high schooler in the beginning. Don’t know a single girl who doesn’t instinctually know that vibe, at the very least, because we’ve all encountered it by that age.
Is it just me, that their Reaction is Superficial. They dont get the whole point of the movie. This kind of movie is amazing, but kind of disappointing watching a very superficial commentaries that they did not got the whole point of the movie. The whole juxtaposition of the divide/class in our society. Movie like this with a deep message should be an eye-opener on our current realities. Ignorance is a bliss indeed.
Mr. Miyagi? Who's he talking about? The screen is too small to see what he's talking about. Isn't Mr. Miyagi (Pat Morita) Japanese & I think he's dead? I think your saying he looks like him.
They throw out america a lot because to a lot of asia (less so now) US was like the land of progress, fortune, promise, etc. It's such a common trope (remember Shaolin Soccer, the super drugs that made the evil team have superpowers lmao). It's a sign of prestige and is perpetuated by elitism
While boys can definitely be groomed, I can only speak from a woman’s experience.. When I made it to 9th grade, there was this big ass footballer who would constantly try to get me to go out with him (he terrified me😂).. And when I got to 11th-12th, all the boys I’d grown up with would talk about how excited they were for so and so to be in high school.. While legally, it’s “ok”.. it’s still very much grooming and just all around weird behavior.. I’ve always been aware of what I could handle at my younger ages.. even at 18, the thought of a 21 year old or older, freaked me out Kids can be “fast” but that’s no excuse to have full grown adults or damn near adults, waiting for them to finally come out and play .. Rant over😂😭.. love y’all’s reactions!!😁🤎
They can't just rent another place because of Jeonsae, where if you want to rent a property, you need to deposit 40%-80% of the amount of property. So basically be ready to put down millions of Korean won for renting a place. It's hell.
Just to add to the grooming question. If the person is in college then ends up with a high schooler, they had to actively go to high schools or be around that age group to meet and then like her - that's superrrrrr weird and predatory. them meeting in high school and then dating with a few years between them is strange too but not as bad as the college and high schooler meeting then dating
The basement guy eating the banana is a metaphor that you understand when he talk about the admiration and respect he have to Mr. Park, the banana eating is not a representation of his sexuality, instead is a representation of how some particular poor people react and behave about powerfull and rich people... like an Elon Musk Fan boy for example
That’s the thing, in such a highly competitive AND hierarchical society as S. Korea is today…them putting this much energy into getting anywhere legitimate still wouldn’t work without the right connections and without money. Honestly, the same most places on earth, too.
As a korean, you all guys look so handsome, beautiful and cool. It’s little funny to say like this but, Do you guys hear a word like “you are so handsome!” in your country ( it might be USA right?) also ? 😅
i need you to react to Strangers From Hell so bad, it's the best thriller show out there, even if you don't do video reactions to it, trust me this will blow your mind without boring you for a single second but will make you crave for more lol
Why people don't keep watching the movie Instead of being guessing.?? I mean no offense it is your video and I am choosing to watch it and I should not be complaining.u am not trying to be rude. I don't have the grace to be doing reactions but I am a big fan of the people who does and I know that it is a great way to make money.
People are so obnoxious and passive aggressive about defending this family in the comments, almost insulting you guys, when they got two innocent people fired and treated the woman and her husband the same way🙄
Which movie should we check out next???
Not a movie, but a series called: Flower Of Evil
The Witch Part 1 : Subversion
the witch part 1: subversion
New World (2013) Starring Jung Jae Lee, who played Gi-Hun in Squid Game.
The Man from Nowhere
(2010) Starring Won Bin.
the ending song of this movie is called "564 yrs" in which it was explained that its the amount of time his son would take inorder to save money to buy that house. its just sad as hell
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31:13 "if y'all applied this much energy into actually doing something positive, you wouldn't have to leech off of them like that" Y'all are so close 😭. Parasite, like every Bong Joon-ho film, is about and explores class. The poorer family aren't poor for lack of effort or intelligence. The father had tried to start several different businesses, and had worked several different jobs- they all failed. The mother was a gold medal athlete. The son is said to be smarter than a lot of college students, and the sister is incredibly intelligent. Their poor living conditions were not for lack of effort. The poorer family has had to adapt to survive and without a doubt put in more work than the wealthier family. They were simply born unlucky. South Korea, like many countries including the US, has high disparity between the rich and poor. High youth unemployment rates, high prices of housing, high cost of living. Extremely high competition in terms of education, super low wages for entry level jobs- etc. As you may have seen in Squid Game, almost half of South Korea's population owes debt. And a lot of times that debt is owed to illegal firms aka loan sharks. If you owe debt to these people, the interest is insane- if you can't pay it back awful things could happen (like in Squid Games; they could make you sign away the rights to your organs) If you die, that debt is just passed on to your family members. The poorer family obviously loves each other a lot, and will do what they can to survive day to day. If that means leaching off of a careless absurdly rich family- so be it. They're forced to survive, and if they see an opportunity- they'll take it. It might not be the most moral thing but morals don't feed your kids and put a roof over your head. And keep in mind they only got so far because the rich family is so used to their comfort and wealth that they don't care OR can't even fathom somebody needing to do that. The rich family are "nice" but also so comfortable they're ignorant. The poorer family's mom says once, "if I was that rich, I'd be nice too"
FACTS!!!!
you spitting facts! I felt kinda off when they said that 😭🤣 hope they read this
Right on the money.
Hustle culture is a lie and feeds a lot of the "work hard and you'll succeed" mindset. It'd be nice if it were true.
FATO
FINALMENTE ALGUEM ENTENDEU
That's the point of this movie. The class divide is so stark that it doesn't matter how talented or intelligent you are, you are limited by the wealth class you are born into.
I actually felt bad for the family. I cried when Kevin was hit with rock and the ending too. The rock floated in the water because it was hallow which is why he survived. Otherwise he most certainly would have died. In the end it did not have any real value. I loved this movie. It's literally a masterpiece.
Wow... after seeing this movie several times, I'm only now realizing the deeper connections with the rock, beyond it just being an aspirational symbol. The amount of detail and layers Bong Joon-ho put into this film is just wild
She nailed it. It's predatory because the tutor is in a position of power. Even though he's "waiting". That def falls under grooming.
That’s a fact it was definitely grooming. Dude was definitely trippin.
-Adison
@Darkstar doesn't make it any less wrong and creepy. look at other historical practices and say that same thing about them, if you dare.
@@edn i mean its implied hes been sleeping with the mom as well not supposed to be a moral dude.
@@darkstar3116 Yeah and my dad ended up being going to jail LMAO. Whatever argument you thought you were making...you failed.
@Darkstar im sorry one of your parents is a groomer
The point is that the children are smart, but yet due to financial and power struggles they are seen as less than. They didn’t go to the biggest colleges or live in a nice home because they have no money. In this world money = power. It shows the struggles of society. The poor is willing to do anything for power and money, but the rich/wealthy become selfish when it comes to money as well as power. The fact that in the end the father of the son didn’t care about the fact that there were hella people hurt shows how selfish they are..ofc that’s your child, but as a parent I could never allow anyone’s child to hurt in front of me. I could go into more detail because these aren’t the best descriptions of the power struggle between the rich and poor in this movie.
One thing to think about with this movie (which I was so excited to see you guys watched! ) the poor family aren't necessarily bad people I'd say, they're just victims of a terrible system they happened to be born into. Same with the wealthy family- It isn't necessarily hard work or being "good people" that got them to where they are, as much as luck of being born into in the right economic class. The tragedy of this story is that no matter how hard the poor family worked or how clever they were, the class disparity is so crazy that they were never going to escape their poverty. Which sort of makes their behavior a little more understandable.
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U 100% explained it in an amazing way in a very sociological way… in one of my sociology classes we talked abt this movie and this was almost the same way my professor explained it❤
That doesn't make it any less true that they did things that their poverty absolutely does not excuse, and that their plan's catastrophic failure was ultimately their own doing.
Sometimes it can be hard for americans to understand this because the "no pain no gain" narrative is deeply rooted in their culture.
I'm sure there's going to be a lot of people commenting this, but I feel you're looking at the movie at a very surface level. Their situation is not a simple 'work hard and you'll succeed story'. Their poverty keeps them in a vicious cycle where they cannot escape from. We are shown and told numerous times that they are smart, crafty individuals (which you have also noticed a few times) and they do work hard (they mention a few times that they've had different jobs in the past, even a restaurant business; the sister is very talented at arts and obivously worked hard to learn both art and photoshop). But their economic status keeps them behind other people. In this capitalist society where money rule they just had the bad luck to be born without any money. So no matter how hard they work because there's so much competition they will always fall behind people who can use their money to boost them in life. The rich are not rich because they are exceptional individuals but because they were simply lucky to be born in the right family. That does not excuse hurting other people, of course. But this is not a fable meant to teach what good morals are, but a critique of our society where the poor have no choice but to go to extreme lengths to simply survive. While the rich get richer and remain completely oblivious to it(or simply choose to ignore "lesser" people - "do not cross the line ;).
I would definitely recommend watching some video essays on this movie. I think you would enjoy it and it would be very eye opening.
EXACTLY!!!
"work hard and you'll succeed" when they said that I just knew they grew up wealthy..
Wow!!!
여기 리액션러는 항상 아무생각 없이 본다
좀 무식한거 같기도하고
like at 1:18:22, can a person living in a semi-basment house with those type of living standards due to their parents’ misfortunes and decisions be able to live a life like those children born into wealth through no efforts of their own? quite unlikely.
You gotta think of the economic and social difference of where you live and where they live. The difficulties of getting work even if you're educated, the disparity of the working class from the rich, the age differences. What may be weird to you may be the normal way of life to others. 😅
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The age difference IS weird. SK doesn't accept it as some norm
@@kokokreme are you from SK?
Overlooking the theme of the movie and the intricate details of society really irked me ngl
It’s really interesting watching reactions of this movie and seeing people put themselves in the shoes of the rich family (imagining what they would do if that happened to them) vs the shoes of the poor family, not realizing that we’re all a whole lot closer to the latter (being “parasites”) rather than the former.
The rich people live on a hill 'on top'. the poor family lives at the 'bottom'. when they were going home in the rain, they were 'descending'
Wow I didn't notice that! These writers are fantastic! -Brandon
that scene where the rich mother going inside her wardrobe with many nice oufits and the next scene is people at the basketball court getting free clothes. horrible
Great movie
Great to see your reaction. Not sure if anyone mentioned it, but most of Bong Joon-Ho's films have some element addressing climate change and how it affects poor people more than the rich. Notice how the rain storm was just a minor inconvenience to the rich family but the poor family almost lost everything due to flooding. The set and houses were designed to show how the poor family lived partially underground. These are real apartments in South Korea along with others that are completely below ground with no light. When Seoul had severe flooding in last few years several people lost their lives in these apartments. Bong Joon-Ho said he was interested in how a parasite finds a host, but what if there's already a parasite using that host? He said, unfortunately, poor people end up having to step on each other to stay alive instead of joining together to fight the systems that keep them poor. You can also see these themes in his movie Snowpiercer.
Mr Kim said "the best plan is no plan at all". At the ending, mr kim's son start write a letter and begins with "i have a plan..". So it means, he would never buy the house, the dad wont make it
And also the stone is floating at the flood scene, which mean it's a fake stone. And in the dream at the ending scene, the stone is at the bottom of the river like the other stone. This indicates the distance between reality and expectations
You guys say if they put this smart/energy towards something productive they can achieve success. But this is wrong. The difference between us and korea. Is that in the US if your from a poor family and hardworking you can succeed. Its much easier to get into a good college as SATs are much easier and you can go through the community college route. They also have financial aid. But in korea you cant. if your from a poor family, chances are your going to stay that way. To get a high salary job in korea you need to come from one of the best colleges and have connections. Even doctors/lawyers arent paid that well if you dont have connections. Connections mostly come from your family or college. You can only get into college by CSAT. You cant just be smart to do well on CSAT. CSAT is on a TOTALLY DIFFERENT LEVEL compared to SAT. Lots of kids in korea go to cram school starting from elementary, junior or high school. Every day they are studying for their CSAT. Cram schools are expensive too. Richer kids are able to get private tutors or get into better cram schools. So they already have the edge compare to poorer families.
i wouldn’t say it’s easier in the U.S but i agree that if you’re born into a poor family in korea, you’re most likely to stay poor. the reactors problem is that they viewed the whole movie based solely on the actions that everyone took instead of looking at the bigger picture. the whole point of the movie is to criticize the disparity in wealth in korea, and how there’s almost zero chance for anyone to get out of being poor. basically, from what i’ve seen, the reactors are purely brainwashed by capitalism to genuinely believe that the poor family could’ve made it out of where they were living in any way. lol
It's so odd that they are rooting for the rich family like a lot of points was missed here about social classes. I understand them thinking the actions that the poor family did was bad but they just kept shitting on them and didn't even try to understand even a little bit.
Us rooting for the rich family is a stretch. Us wanting to make sure people don’t get hurt by further bad decisions is more so what we are rooting for.
-Adison
It just a movie chill they did something wrong why would they suppport wrong?
Oh boo hoo, god forbid they not root for the master manipulators
I mean, what did the rich family really do wrong? The poor family specifically got 2 people fired for no reason. If it's a question of morality, who behaved in a more moral way and who didn't??
@@theoblongbox4909 Yes the poor family got two people fired, but the old house keeper was also hiding her husband in the house. They are all "parasites" fighting over the scraps left by the rich. And even though they fought to the death, they still saw each other as human beings. But the rich dad did not. If the rich dad knew who they really were, he'd think they were cockroaches. As the two families killed each other essentially over the rich family, all the rich dad could feel towards them was disgust and apathy. This is why the poor dad killed the rich dad, because the rich dad is monstrous in his refusal to acknowledge their humanity, even as they fought to serve him and his family.
I been reading every single comment below and whoever is Adison isnt Getting what these comment are telling. The people in comment understood the movie but you didnt.
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Baby bottle is because he hasn't eaten for days and she didn't want him to consume too fast. Baby formula is made for easy digestion. Also the reason for banana. These are details you normally wouldn't see in other movies.
Yup. Its the stuff thats easier to digest when you havent eaten for days.
Less likely to hurt or make you vomit.
If you watch the tense parts of the movie at 1.5x speed, I think the tension in the film decreases by about three times. I know many people who have watched this movie more than three times.It's such an excellent film, and especially the contrast between the first half and the latter half's tension makes this movie even more special. But watching the crucial part of the movie, the latter half, at 1.5x speed? Oh my goodness! It's like swallowing wine without savoring its taste, and I believe it's like not fully enjoying half of the fun this movie has to offer.
That's an accurate point.
They are just stupid americanz that watch only marvel and listen hiphop ,I’m sure they didn’t get the point of the movie absolutely 😂Thwy just watchd for quick just to be trendy
they watch at 1.5x???!!
@@RocZi they DID NOT lmao.. some part of the clips were speed up to accurately match what they watched because of the talking they had in between... OP making stupid assumption because he dont know how editing works
@@Bodonism good to know lol phew *puts axe back down
I think A LOT of people don't understand the film. Most people just think "oh parasite, because the poor people are leeching" when in reality it's so much more than that.
There are definitely deeper issues at play for sure! But wrong is wrong 🤷🏾♂️
-Adison
@@ednknowing the tone of bong joon ho’s other works (snowpiercer, okja, etc) - he definitely didn’t intend the poor people to be the “parasites” 😂
*edit: parasites in nature feed off of something, with the parasite being the only thing that “benefits” at the end of the day. The rich stay safe in their (literally) glass houses, despite all the world throws at them. The rest of society is left to languish and become corrupted by their desperation over the scrapes/the limited resources leftover from what the wealthy and powerful haven’t hoarded and only ever end up hurt in the long run for it.
@@edn You shouldn't review Cinema. It's clearly not your lane.
@@djokerdevil perhaps you are blind because analytics suggest the exact opposite of what you are saying.
-Adison
@@edn Calling a subscriber blind is easy. Accepting your shallow knowledge of class inequity and actually reading about the film analysis would take time and humility. You got neither, Ma'am?
It's not a thriller or mystery story. It is an example of how the rich are the true parasites who live off cheap labour - and hoard so much wealth , that the poor are pit against each other, just to survive.
Anyone who says " work hard and you'll succeed" is foolishness personified
I took a whole class in college that was centered around this movie and let me just say, all of your takes about it are completely normal and valid. Y'all are looking at it from a moral, straight-forward, common sense perspective. The class was pretty split as far as opinions... some thought the poor family took it too far and deserved the tragic outcome. Some sympathized way too much with the poor family and equated being poor with justification for what they did. Others had a more nuanced approach and judged both families in the context of how difficult it can truly be to raise a family in a highly capitalistic, competitive society, especially when you're trying to scrape your way up from the bottom. Some people hold onto their dignity and morals no matter what, while others don't. At the end of the day, every individual is different, hence, why people's opinions on this movie are so diverse. Great reaction :)
They aren’t full of resentment the day of the party initially. They’re just exhausted because they lost everything, they’re homeless after this natural disaster that effected a whole community, they got no sleep, endangered themselves by going into their dwelling to grab the few things they could. Then they gotta show up to a party and act happy and normal? I couldn’t.
you're looking at bad and good in such a linear way... the world isn't bad or good it just is... these people born into these circumstances are surviving any way they can, animals do that in the wild all the time. Yes as human beings we have choices, but we will never understand the lives and choices of someone living in TRUE poverty, where you don't know if you will have a roof over your head or money for your next meal, so those people come into a world that constantly teaches them lessons of cruelty and unfairness and they do what they have to do to Survive. In asian countries especially wealth and education is the biggest priority, and people who are not able to go these traditional are usually shunned by society and looked down upon so people literally will do whatever they can to achieve wealth and status, its literally subhuman how cleaners, maids, people doing service industry jobs are treated.
First off thanks for the comment and for checking out our reaction to Parasite! I do have a question for you though.
Without any further context. If someone came into your home and stabbed your loved ones to death. Would you really still say "nothing bad happened" it just is what it is?
-Adison
@@ednthe thing is you're looking at it on surface level. Stabbing someone? Bad. Is the movie about morals? No.
The film is about wealth disparity. It's about how we live in a system that makes the poor poorer and the rich richer. Need, poverty, distress, makes people do unimaginable things because humans are full of survival instinct.
The rich family looked down constantly on the poor throughout the whole movie. "The line" creates an us vs them mentality, the father was fine as long as poor people didn't cross the (class) line. The mother being thankful for the rain because of how a beautiful day it was afterwards, while poor citizens lost homes. They got rid of the nanny for "TB", instead of waiting for her to get better and letting her rest. Why? Bcs us, working class people, are disposable.
No matter how smart, how clever, how resourceful, without the luck, the right conditions, connections, you'll never get out of poverty because of how the system has been set up.
When the father in the shelter says "the best plan that doesn't fail is having no plan"? Yeah. That hits. When you live day to day, that's it, there's no planning for the future, no saving up, there is always an emergency you need to spend your meager savings on. You can't plan for the future when you have so many problems in the now.
The true parasite of the film is hope. The hope the rich instill on the poor of "if you work hard enough you'll make it" when that is 99% of the time not the case, because the system has been set up against them. The rich will always benefit from the poor, they don't have any real reason from seeing us succeed, it's not convenient for them.
Desperate need leads to desperate acts.
I have more things to say probably but it's 3am and I have to be up at 7 for work.
@@edn Murder aint right but getting disgusted by the smell of a man dying infront of you shows you dont give value to humans u dont consider worthy of it, its as psychopathic as someone who kills someone else
@@jimjimcherie u made a lot of excellent points...its like someone stealing food and someone in a better position judging and condemning them...yes it was wrong but unless they've never really been hungry hungry..with cramps dizziness shivers etc they would never understand or empathize with why that person stole...
@@-Epiphany thank you! And exactly! My family went hungry, we went poor we lost our home, my family went from having a lot of money to none, I never saw the wealth of my family, but my parents lost everything, and growing up poor... that really changes the way you see things. It's been shown that poverty alters brain chemistry and development in children, we have worse memories, planning and decision-making abilities. So the wealthy with every opportunity in the world judging the poor doesn't sit right with me, when growing in poverty itself already puts you in a disadvantage on a development level.
I know some people said yall didnt really get the point of the film yall did to some degree 1 thing that flies over most people's head when watching the film is the rock when their basement was flooding the rock was floating it did not sink which means it was hollow inside and they were given that rock as a symbol of hope,wealth,and prosperity but it being hollow and not a rock the whole time just shows they were given false hope they were going to fail eventually and it being hollow is also the reason the son was able to survive the attack from the man in the basement
Yoooooo that was a dope point!! 🤯
-Adison
The criticism of capitalism is right there: @1:19:04 "Nah that ain't never gon be real"....
Everyone knows it. Capitalists just pretend otherwise.
yall rly watched the best parts at 1.5 speed like for what ? 😭
The thing about the girl and the tutor IS weird. she might be 17/18 but still I agree it is weird. and I think the movie does this on purpose
That’s a fact it was definitely very weird and like I said it certainly felt like grooming to me.
-Adison
i think it was intentional bc she trusted him and told the tutor about her family and used it to get the other family members into the house.
Guess you guys didn't recognize the daughter of the rich family. She is the high school version of Dong-Eun in The Glory...
ohhh snap!I didn't realize that at first! Thanks for pointing that out!
-Adison
@@rai2423 it is
I’m glad to see people commenting on this reaction about the reactors’ superficial understanding of the movie. “What are they doing with the money?” “They can buy the house” “He bought the house at the end, he did what he could’ve done before & it only took him a few years”… How ignorant… Is it that easy to buy property in America? The director of the movie confirmed that it would take the boy 500 something years to buy it. How is the female reactor acting like they’re getting paid so much for their jobs at the house, enough to afford their own new house? Does she even know what currency South Korea use… They have BIG numbers… A lot of notes but with lower value… Honestly so so so superficial… It is NEVER black & white with class & wealth. I expected African Americans especially to realise this because of the generational class disparity that is passed down… Went over their heads…
Thanks for your comment. However, although the family was in a tough situation scamming people and murdering them is never the right way to do things. That's not superficial it just may be a hard fact that you may overlook because you feel more towards one side than the other. They have told us this since elementary school "two wrongs don't make a right".
-Adison
@@edn LOLOLOLOL how one track minded can you get? Why do they scam? Why are they so opportunistic? How did the murder happen? You ought to ruminate on the whys. Two wrongs don't make a right? They are trying to survive. As someone commented down below in case you haven't read them because there are so many good comments - to a rich person, someone stealing food will be "bad" especially if YOU have never been that situation. At least try to think of the context. So superficial.
Hey I get all the intricacies that this movie has and believe me it is VERY WELL written. But point blank I won’t ever ask a killer, robber, or scammer why they chose to target me? I don’t care! They are wrong! I’m not someone else’s punching bag just because life hasn’t gone the way they would have liked. You can type any response you want but I doubt you’d be in some back alleyway thanking a robber for stealing from you because you are (by the world’s standards) considered more well off than they are. Let’s be real! You are talking to someone who has family and friends on both sides of the fence that this movie depicts, I wasn’t born yesterday. And I won’t let someone’s sympathy for evil make me feel any different about what evil is…EVIL.
-Adison
@@edn If you're not going to try to understand the whys then why watch these kind of movies anyway lol... The example you gave of someone being robbed in a black alleyway - lol, this is completely different to the Park family's situation? First of all we are aware of, as you mentioned, of the circumstances of both families. & THAT is what would make us try to look beyond the superficial. This is not having sympathy for evil lol... This is acknowledging the fact that there is light/dark in all of us & depending on our circumstances some of us may be compelled to do "wrong" in societal standards like having to scam to survive & ensure financial stability. This excludes murder because that happened when things spiralled & was also due to the old maid's situation. It is not black/white.
Again. I saw the movie and and understood the underlying tones of what compelled the people to act in the way they did. This was a great film...one of the most thought provoking films we have seen on this channel. Still WRONG is WRONG. Even your last statement seems to passively push off the final violent acts. All the poor decisions that were made led up to an even more public and brutal poor decision. It's sad to see people making evil decisions...and it's sad to see people suffering from the evil decisions that others have made.
-Adison
I love this movie! and I liked that you included scenes that other reactors usually don't include to cut time so I enjoyed the reaction.
Btw they explained the reason why he stayed down there, its because they had a huge debt probably from an illegal place (gangster) with huge interest so you can never really pay it so they would literally follow him around and beat him up for the money so he escaped by staying down there since they had no money.
The thing with Jessica is she’s the one that could easily blend in.... her being the first to go hits different idk
I appreciate that you weren't afraid to call out the Kims for the awful things they did. A lot of people make excuses for them because they're poor. Which I kind of get; I've been poor my whole adult life. And nobody asks to be poor, and it's monstrously unfair, and I feel the weight of it every day, and I have fantasies about a better life. So there are some bad deeds I'm willing to excuse if someone's trying to get by. A lot of what the Kims did goes wayyy beyond that. A lot of people also try to justify the heist or even Mr. Park's murder by pointing out how "bad" the Parks were - and then they cite things that literally aren't wrong at all, or totally victimless actions that reflect poorly on them but aren't actually hurting anyone. Certainly nothing that somehow deserves being scammed, let alone murdered. And if you have the integrity and good sense to simply point out as a bald fact that the Kims did wrong, or that they brought most of their ultimate fate on themselves, or that the Parks didn't deserve what happened to them - people tell you you didn't "get" the messages about class and privilege, or that you don't understand poverty, or that you're privileged. As if it's impossible to be aware of two things at the same time, or analyze a movie on more than one level.
For what it's worth, Bong Joon-Ho said there are no villains in this movie. I think this is the fairest and most charitable interpretation. Nobody deserved any of this. Nobody deserved to be rotting in a sub-basement or a bunker. Nobody deserved to be cheated out of an honest job. Nobody deserved to be scammed. Nobody deserved to have their home flooded. Nobody deserved to be killed. Nobody deserved to be exploited. Nobody deserved to have their family broken.
I love the “don’t give the whole movie away” comment at the beginning because she really only highlighted the theme of the movie…there’s no way to really put into words the twists and turns the ACTUAL storyline takes lmao. It’s one of those that it’s best to go in blind because it is WILD.
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23:48 yup! it's korean buffet, but cheaper version, cost around $6 ~ $8 depend on the region. you can see the old people at the back. it's not that common to bring the whole family here, unless they're very young. most of the stuffs are cheap ones, like pork etc, no beef, no chicke, no, sea food. also, if you're too late, all the good ones will be gone. it's like a ... $ 6 lotto, in a way, perhaps? if i'm lucky, i can have lots of pork for $6, otherwise, i'll have some cheap stuffs like green vegetables and soy soup, with kim chi, etc 😷
oh, wait. it says "기사 식당" on the windows, which means, this buffet is for taxi drivers. we can eat there, too, but usually, it's the taxi drivers who are regular customers. it's not that common to bring the whole family there. mah, bad. the quality of the food is ok, i guess there, as otherwise, all those taxi drivers will find different korean buffet. it's a value for money restaurant. my mistake. they'll probably cost like ... $10
27:03 i beg to differ, bro. it's not because they can't check on them, but because they're rich koreans who made a lot of money and became an upper class family, so they try to speak a little bit of english in their conversation with other "upper class" people, and if they hire someone who's graduated from usa or used to live there, that means, they have the money to hire those socially upper class people as a tutor or driver etc. you see? to some south korean, usa is like the no.1 country on earth. the very best nation
32:12 😂
1:16:02 wow ~ you're really fast, man. you're like the first person i've seen who knew about the basement this fast 😯
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Yall missed the whole point of this movie
First off thanks for tuning in! We will probably do another video doing a deep dive into the film and about the other plot points that we didn’t necessarily tackle in this reaction. We typically have longer discussions at the end of the movie but when we recorded this we actually all had to leave shortly after the film was over. Let me know what points you feel like we didn’t really notice and we can discuss those!
-Adison
Oh for god’s sake🙄
The line is the separation between family and the help. The poor dad keeps trying to talk to the rich dad like he's a friend instead of an employee. The rich dad at the end had to remind him that he's not a part of his son's birthday because he's a friend or close relations, but as a hired help.
The family's desperation is thier motivation, their actions were horrible, but how nuanced the characters are, you get why they do what they do, but it's still a horrible thing to do. They never poisoned the food they were gonna give to them, but they weren't able to, the husband was already on kill mode, the rich daughter was smart enough to get the poor son to a hospital quickly enough to save him, shows her empathy, and the rich dad having a reaction to that smell shows to the poor dad that he seems them as the same, even though he just killed his only daughter, no wonder he fully snapped.
This is probably one of my favorite reactions to one of my favorite films of all time.
Y'all did miss a few things that require cultural context. The ages of the boy and girl weren't that great especially given the cultural norms and they don't view the whole high-school/college dichotomy as all that big of a deal. It's only "grooming" from an American pov.
The rock represented luck. It looks like certain mountain formations in miniature so it's essentially a sculpture given a superstitious significance.
The smell came from living below sea or sewer level, and why the toilet had to be above the basement apt level.
The conflict w the housekeeper and husband show how poor people fight over scraps and some even worship the rich thankful for getting crumbs.
The Parks weren't good people. Korea is a stratified society where movement into a different class than you were born is near impossible no matter how hard you work or how smart and capable you are. The Parks got the education and job befitting their privileged status. Their kids likewise had tutors, art therapists, housekeepers, drivers etc to continue the cycle. The wife had only to spend the money living in ignorant bliss. When the rain fell on the shining hill, it cleansed the air while devastating those in the gutter.
You can say the Parks are the parasites living lives propped up by poor people while considering them only as paid servants. You only needed to notice the micro-aggressions aimed at Mr Kim for the most part... reluctantly shaking his hand, testing his driving on the DL, telling him to refrain from getting too familiar, telling him he's getting paid so he should change his attitude, then demanding Kim to drive from the scene.. and eventually to throw the keys as their art therapist was dying from stab wounds in his backyard
The Outlaws (2017) Starring Don Lee, aka MA Dong-Seok. The big man who played expectant dad on the movie, Train to Busan.
This movie, The Outlaws is based on real life, and the character Don Lee plays he is in law enforcement in Korea.
31:00 “why yall so greedy”
I hope at the end yall understand this is literally a critique of capitalism
No matter how talented all of them are they can’t get ahead because the system is set up for a small group of rich people while everyone else suffers
The flood analogy is perfect
Director said in South Korea where wealthy disparity has gotten so bad. Rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer. It will take total of 564 years for the son to save up enough money to buy that house. Which basically means it won’t happen. Same thing happened to the old housekeepers husband. Expect he borrowed money from loan sharks where they could literally forcefully take stuff from you or even kill you, etc. That’s why he has been hiding in the basement
I saw many people shocked to see the raised toilet. It is raised due to sewer level of the neighborhood. Plumbing fixtures cannot be lower than the city sewer level. Not common but there are neighborhoods like that and they live in sub basement unit. So when sewer floods.... they can burst out. This movie is very accurate.
he got debt to pay thats why hes not going out
This was way too stressful for me to watch on my own, so I'm really enjoying the reaction video as a way to watch it with friends, kind of.
Aye welcome to the family! That's how we feel as well. -Brandon
Man what? This is really sad. You should get out more
Lol you know capitalism got you when you end up rooting for the condescending rich family who kept talking about not crossing the line between rich and poor, as in "You're just my help, act like it".... And the way they were fetishizing poor people buying drugs during their sexy time? They're not exactly "good people". Maybe it's the culture and language barrier. The mom for example was not trying to poison them at all... she was genuinely concerned and wanted to make sure they were good. Of course what the poor family did was morally wrong but put yourself in their shoes. Korea has a huge poverty problem and class also plays a huge part. They would never make it out of their status doing honest work. It's a cutthroat society. Good reaction nonetheless but I suggest you guys watch some analysises or video essays on this move to interpret it differently than yall have.
honestly came here to comment the same thing. They missed so many of the points the movie was trying to make. I usually like their reactions but this time I'm kinda let down.
no fr 😭 i couldn’t even fathom how someone watching parasite would root for the rich family of all people… until now
They are privileged, so it's hard for them to understand.
MORE THAN JUST A MOVIE,
LESS THAN A MANIFESTO.
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I feel it’s the same with like the girl from inventing Anna . Rich people aren’t as on guard is poor people they don’t covet their stuff as much because when you have a lot things lose value and as far as recommendation, they don’t want to do extra work so if someone they trust or someone with money says it’s fine they usually believe it because getting scammed isn’t the same as getting scammed when you don’t have money.
Let me start with saying I love the channel and you guys reactions, so no shade here just offering perspective. This film isn’t meant to make you root for one family or the other. Neither family is more righteous. It’s not really about right or wrong or good or bad.
Both families are the “parasite”. The poor family is leeching off of the rich family’s wealth and the rich family literally can’t handle their day to day life without relying on the services of the poor family.
On a surface level you could say what the poor family did is “wrong” but history has shown us time and time again that people will do what they need to do to survive and that’s human nature. And they are in deep poverty, every day is fight or flight. They are fighting for survival daily. In the US, ghettos are rampant with people selling drugs, selling sex, and committing crimes just to escape poverty or survive. We have an understanding that these people are typically not “bad” people. They are products of their environments and victims of a messed up system. This family is no different.
This story is about classism and wealth disparity. It’s not a question of who’s right or wrong but rather a question of is it fair for there to be a system in place that favors some people just because they were born in the right circumstances when there are other people who are obviously more intelligent, skilled, and hard working that have to stoop to crime just to escape their circumstances.
“It’s never gonna be real”. What you said at the very end of the film. Yes. THAT is the point. That no matter what they can’t escape their situation because of the society and system that they are apart of.
A year late on my comment but I'd like to point out that the movie never confirmed if Da-hye was actually interested in Kevin's friend Min. The discussions regarding whether Min displayed predatory behavior was great but what about Da-hye feelings. Did Da-hye reciprocate Min's interest? Did Min have Da-hye's consent to have picture of her or did he take her image from one of the pictures on the wall in their house? If Da-hye never had an interest in Min or even knew that Min had an interest in her, it makes Min's predatory behavior 5x worse than originally thought - js
I cannot believe how many things you predicted SO far in advance, and so specifically! Crazy! On that metric I think this is the most impressive reaction I've seen to this movie.
omg it's actually impressive how you didn't understand this movie at all
Seems like you want people to empathize with someone does the wrong thing? It’s interesting to me how people forget the simple principle that two wrongs don’t make a right.
-Adison
@@edn Haha there's tons of comments pointing out in detail and pretty respectfully about how you failed to grasp the concept of this movie, and from what you just commented here, it seems you're still stubborn about it. Please open yourselves to the critism you're receiving in this video, we're just pointing out the poor media literacy shown here, nothing else. There's no point getting defensive and personal about it. Go read about Bong Joon-ho vision behind the creation of this movie and maybe some more about class inequality cause you're clearly ignorant about it. You're replying to every comment talking about this issue instead of doing that and improving the quality of your reactions, that's a bad look. Don't expect people to ever come back to your channel again if there's no growth lol.
I mean honestly I would rather go to jail than stay in that basement alone till who knows when like the dad at the end. I would literally go crazy
Girl "Parasite Banana scene" THAT SHI KlLLED ME LMFAO
Funnest reaction to this movie I've seen yet! People are roasting y'all for not immediately understanding the wrongs of the wealthy family and the commentary on systemic inequality, but it's definitely more subtle than the rest. Subscribed.
I think you didn't watch the movie carefully. 😅
I’m new so i think i missed his name in the beginning, but HUGE props/respect to dude in the red shirt at 8:40ish - women and girls really are gaslit on the reality of this by a lot of society.
Of course the woman in the room understands how predatory that man was being towards the high schooler in the beginning. Don’t know a single girl who doesn’t instinctually know that vibe, at the very least, because we’ve all encountered it by that age.
its a movie that I have many thoughts about. its incredible how well they’ve done this.
This is the Best Korean movie All time for me
This movie was very thought provoking for sure!
-Adison
There is a word like this. "gold spoon" "dirt spoon" to the based on money. 😅
They worked out it would take 582 years before the son could afford that house.
The Wailing I recommend it. It's a very unique horror movie
100%, so underrated too
Parasite was so good!!! the asian movies are really good, we need open our mind and give us the oportunity for this kind of films.
Black people watching and reacting to Parasite is something I didn't know I needed till now....
🤣😂 appreciate you my guy! -Brandon
Is it just me, that their Reaction is Superficial.
They dont get the whole point of the movie.
This kind of movie is amazing, but kind of disappointing watching a very superficial commentaries that they did not got the whole point of the movie. The whole juxtaposition of the divide/class in our society. Movie like this with a deep message should be an eye-opener on our current realities.
Ignorance is a bliss indeed.
So glad you guys did this!
Dude in yellow is so unserious sometimes he just be talking to talk 😂😂 I could not watch a movie with this man but he be fun to go out with fr
LOL I’m losing it at the banana commentary
Lol that scene took me out. That guy was going crazy on that fruit 🍌 🤣😭😂
-Adison
8:00 This is definitely grooming
Love yall discussion and the username
Subscribed.
Mr. Miyagi? Who's he talking about? The screen is too small to see what he's talking about. Isn't Mr. Miyagi (Pat Morita) Japanese & I think he's dead? I think your saying he looks like him.
watching yall i feel like yall would rlly enjoy watching the untamed
Preciate the suggestion! What streaming platform is that movie on?
-Adison
6:00 well he could just be a year older than her
Hey, I saw your video for the first time and the guy on the left has a very gorgeous accent bro! -from Korea
Not really a normal bathroom in Korea. I got the same reaction when I saw that bathroom.
thank you ^^ 잘보고갑니다..
No problem! 즐기시기 바랍니다! 이 영화는 확실히 우리가 이 채널에서 리뷰한 가장 좋아하는 영화 중 하나입니다!
-Adison
They throw out america a lot because to a lot of asia (less so now) US was like the land of progress, fortune, promise, etc. It's such a common trope (remember Shaolin Soccer, the super drugs that made the evil team have superpowers lmao). It's a sign of prestige and is perpetuated by elitism
While boys can definitely be groomed, I can only speak from a woman’s experience..
When I made it to 9th grade, there was this big ass footballer who would constantly try to get me to go out with him (he terrified me😂)..
And when I got to 11th-12th, all the boys I’d grown up with would talk about how excited they were for so and so to be in high school..
While legally, it’s “ok”.. it’s still very much grooming and just all around weird behavior..
I’ve always been aware of what I could handle at my younger ages.. even at 18, the thought of a 21 year old or older, freaked me out
Kids can be “fast” but that’s no excuse to have full grown adults or damn near adults, waiting for them to finally come out and play ..
Rant over😂😭.. love y’all’s reactions!!😁🤎
They can't just rent another place because of Jeonsae, where if you want to rent a property, you need to deposit 40%-80% of the amount of property. So basically be ready to put down millions of Korean won for renting a place.
It's hell.
Oh wow! They are wrong for that! -Brandon
Just to add to the grooming question. If the person is in college then ends up with a high schooler, they had to actively go to high schools or be around that age group to meet and then like her - that's superrrrrr weird and predatory. them meeting in high school and then dating with a few years between them is strange too but not as bad as the college and high schooler meeting then dating
The basement guy eating the banana is a metaphor that you understand when he talk about the admiration and respect he have to Mr. Park, the banana eating is not a representation of his sexuality, instead is a representation of how some particular poor people react and behave about powerfull and rich people... like an Elon Musk Fan boy for example
nah it's just for easy digestion. u overthink the banana too much XD
@@Bee-vu6ye Elon Musk fanboy detected
@@Huguillon just bc I corrected u doesn't mean I'm Elon's fan lol. Take the L and move on, loser 🤣
@@Huguillon just bc I corrected u doesn't mean I'm Elon's fan. Take the L and move on 🤣
@@Bee-vu6ye Just because you lie doesn't mean you're a Elon fanboy, are youare showing it
Love this movie. And a fun reaction vid!
"Fix the son" youre fd up dude
Lol how so?
-Adison
wtf did you put the movie on 1.5x?
Why get so spooked over the 'sex' scene?
47:52 This whole segment has me tearing up bruh 😂😂😂😂😂That is insane
49:01 YOOOO! Why did he eat it like that?!? Wtf 😂😂😂😂
49:50 Nah bruh, that's wild
1:09:48
🤣😂🤣 these folks are wild!! -Brandon
Best movie I've ever seen.
This movie was really good. I will definitely put it in my top 10 most thought provoking films I've seen.
-Adison
Nice! I love this movie! React to the Korean movie Extreme Job next!
That’s the thing, in such a highly competitive AND hierarchical society as S. Korea is today…them putting this much energy into getting anywhere legitimate still wouldn’t work without the right connections and without money. Honestly, the same most places on earth, too.
Are they speeding up parts of the movie, or is that just the TH-cam edit in post??
What's with the 1.5x speed up 💀
bass pro shop hat is goated tbh
As a korean, you all guys look so handsome, beautiful and cool. It’s little funny to say like this but, Do you guys hear a word like “you are so handsome!” in your country ( it might be USA right?) also ? 😅
i need you to react to Strangers From Hell so bad, it's the best thriller show out there, even if you don't do video reactions to it, trust me this will blow your mind without boring you for a single second but will make you crave for more lol
Why people don't keep watching the movie Instead of being guessing.?? I mean no offense it is your video and I am choosing to watch it and I should not be complaining.u am not trying to be rude. I don't have the grace to be doing reactions but I am a big fan of the people who does and I know that it is a great way to make money.
The Wailing...is the best
It made me tear up in the end.... :/
Definitely a heart wrenching film!
-Adison
You guys missed the entire narrative of the movie.
People are so obnoxious and passive aggressive about defending this family in the comments, almost insulting you guys, when they got two innocent people fired and treated the woman and her husband the same way🙄