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If you have not watched I recommend “the Handmaiden” another Korean physchological thriller . Beautifully filmed period time when Japan occupied Korea . On the dark side but so good
Have you guys watched the Lake House? If you love romance I recommend that one.
Pls guys I'm begging . React to The call Korean horror movie. That's so good.
When Kevin picks up the rock in the flood, he realizes that it’s fake because a real one would have sunk. They were doomed from the beginning but ironically, the rock being fake is why Kevin lives in the end. He wouldn’t have survived it was real.
Then why it didn't float when Kevin returned it to the spring?
@@TrungTH1190 because it shows that ending couldn’t be true, it was a dream because the rock sunk (as J H said, it wasn’t real/luxurious as they said it was).
i never picked up on this omg
@@TrungTH1190 the spring was shallow, it would float if the water is deep.
@@tchalla8744 yeah right, try put a balloon in shallow water see if it would float. My point is, if things are buoyant enough to float, they’ll float no matter the water level.
Everything about this movie is a hidden message, the title "parasite" should be interpreted not only for the poor family, but also for the rich family, both are parasites but in a different sense.
The stairs, the colors, the rain, the smell, the credits, the dialogues, even the rock, the rock wasn't even real, no real rock will float.
There is also a theory that Jessica is the only one to die because she represents the ones in society who *should* be capable enough to move up between the classes, she belongs there, but she dies, she dies because poor people no matter how hardworking and smart they are, they will never reach that point, they are crushed by the system.
theres 4 parasites in the movie, the main family, the basement family, rich family, and Id like to see the rock as a parasite too. kevin said that ever since that rock was given to him, it felt like it was stuck too him, and at the end the same rock is what gets him (almost) dead. just like parasite, they stick to you, and kill you
Mr Kim killed Mr Park for a combination of reasons. Mr Park always looked down on the workers, even though he was not directly rude to them it was obvious that he saw them as beneath him and merely tolerated them. This is shown by the smell which is an ongoing symbol in the movie for social class. The poor family smelt bad - the rich couple hated the smell but tolerated it because the poor family were of use to them.
Although they paid them well and seemed like nice people, when it came down to the scene of panic and emergency, the rich no longer made an effort to keep the image. Their son had a siezure but their employee got stabbed in a critical area yet they showed no concern for her. Note that none of the rich people tried to help save the bleeding tutor (even after the murderer dies, they just watch and flee). While Mr Kim was trying to help the tutor, they scolded him and told him to drive them to the hospital even though they were not injured. Despite their selfishness, Mr Kim still threw the keys at least somewhat obeying orders.
When Mr Park goes to collect the keys from under the other poor guy's body, he again shows that, even in such a crazy situation, he cannot ignore the smell (the low class status) and holds his nose. This ultimately sets off Mr Kim because even though there are poor people dying in front of him and he needs the keys to help his son he has the time to hold his nose. In this moment, Mr Kim realises that Mr Park can never overcome his prejudice against them (i.e. cannot ignore the smell). Moreover, both his children seemed to be dying so Mr Kim really had nothing much to lose and wanted Mr Park to also suffer.
Of course, it is never justified to kill someone but that build up of being discriminated against and the rich not really having a concern for poorer people. Mr Park has always been adamant about boundaries he sets between him and his employees. Even when Mr Kim was trying to get to know Mr Park better and asked him about his wife, he shut him down. Then after Mr Kim experienced one of the worst nights of his life, he is expected to go dress up at a kid's birthday and Mr Park justifies it because he's getting paid more without even checking if he's fine with it. Mr Park never really viewed the poor as people but merely as a means to make his life easier. I guess it was disappointing for Mr Kim as he seemed to look up to him and his wealth but turned out to be someone irredeemable in his eyes.
this !!! I was thinking that, they kinda missed a few themes.
Growing up poor, I knew EXACTLY why Mr Kim did what he did. I felt that anger, frustration, impotence, and despair, and even though it was horrible at the same time it seemed like a totally understandable reaction. The rich people were insufferable, the poor people were desperate and shameless, they were all parasites.
well said.
i thought he killed mr. kim bcoz he would know that the parasite and his driver have the same smell. if he leave mr. kim alive, he could say that their family and the parasite has a connection
@@ReneReacts yeah, when I saw the movie, I immediately disliked the rich people, but they had another opinion for them, like they were almost sorry for the rich. With this I can tell that they have grown-up with some privileges, which is not bad, but that's why we see the world from different perspectives, and understand the movie in different ways.
also, the rain scene is important where it shows how events like rain affects the poor vs rich family. the rich family complained how the rain ruined their plans for camping and the birthday party while the other lost their home, I think that is where the poor family stated to realize the huge difference between them and the rich family. and when they saw what the rich family really thinks of them like, you see some resentment start to form
and the thing is: the camping trip wasn't really ruined as the kid still had fun camping in the garden; and the mom still found the heavy rain to be a blessed upside, mentioning how it ultimately cleared the sky for the birthday party
It's why the it's harder to be poor than rich and the two are not on equal ground with equal oppurtunity
A cinematic masterpiece the symbolism of certain shots interwoven through the film that you might not catch the first time round well deserved first foreign film to win best picture at the oscars
I gues you don't catch the first time around if youre a privileged white boy in the us
When you realize the scholars rock was fake cuz it floated in the water at the end. There was no good fortune to be had from the get go.
The irony of this is that the rock being fake is the reason Kevin lived! He would not have survived if it was real. It’s just one small prop but used so brilliantly!
The houses are also a metaphor. Rich people’s house got stairs up. While during the rain scene you see the poor family needing to go down a lot of stairs down to their house. The place and the houses are made specifically for that met
Yup and a literal symbolism for what’s in the basement of the rich house 😭
There's no scene the rich family goes down the stairs but the Kim's family always does.
Also the lighting!!! Poor=poor lighting rich=good lighting
I think you guys missed that the rich family are no where near good as well. They’re just a lot more subtle with it. Everything they own they got off of the backs of the poor’s labor. This could most clearly be shown when the basement guy sets off the “automatic lights.” As you guessed, the smell is the smell of being poor. Also the entire sex scene is them disrespecting the poor. Being poor is just a kink to them and not something they see as a real struggle. I saw someone suggest that the poor family didn’t get caught when they were trying to get out of the house because the rich family see themselves as too good to look down and actually see the poor. Like the director said, the most accurate title of this movie is “Parasite*s*."
exactly. “they’re rich, but nice.” “They’re nice because they’re rich.”
Understanding the struggle of being poor and having a kink about pretending to be poor are not mutually exclusive. A person's kinks are their own business, and do not make them a bad person or deserve literally any judgement.
Almost everything you cited is either something they couldn't possibly have known about (how were they supposed to know a squatter in their basement was working their lights?!), or a completely victimless action and/or comment that was only able to hurt the Kims because they were secretly in earshot when they weren't supposed to be. Why you're making moral judgements about what people say or do in the privacy of their homes is beyond me.
@@NoriMori1992 kinks are not isolated things... despite how much you want that to be true to defend this rich family for some reason
The rich wife was "nice" because she never had to fight for survival. As the poor mother said, she can afford to be nice, and she would ne nice too if she had all her needs met. And as for Kevin, he will never be in a position to afford the house, that's the tragedy of it. It's classism, He sill always stay in his class and will never ever be able to afford something like that even if he works his whole life. A house like that price is way over a lifetime of minimum wage salary.
Yeah, but...having your needs met is a good thing and something everyone should experience, not something you should be ashamed of. Yeah, she csn afford to be nice, that doesn't mean she deserves to be taken advantage of. I know that's an unpopular opinion, but while I understand why the poor family did all of this, it doesn't mean it was justified, or that the rich people deserved it.
its like what the mother of the poor family said. its not that they are rich but they are still nice, they are nice because they are rich.
Minimum wage isn't supposed to give you a luxurious life nor is it something you should do for your entire life, some of you seem to only be worth the minimum though unfortunately, also wealth has nothing to do with being nice or not, you blaming your nasty personality on being poor doesn't make much sense to those with sane minds
@@aj897 This sounds so alien to me, that people like you are capable of loving this movie without understanding what it means about themselves... It really is telling.
i complete agree with this comment, and want to expand on it and the "no angels" discussion from the other thread: the REASON both families have to go through such ridiculous, dishonest actions is because they do not have the ability to get basic resources any other way. The REASON they do not have the ability to have basic resources is because of the rich. Mr. Park complains, as an after thought, that the original housekeeper ate enough for two, but it was never a risk to his or his family's survival. The rich could pay enough in taxes or individual generosity or just providing a wage that covers the cost of living, but they do not. And the film shows that wage and skill are not equivalent: the family is either capable enough at their jobs that no suspicions as to their qualifications is raised (driver, tutor, housekeeper) or by demonstrating the amount of money the fake persona of "Jessica" makes by spouting information she learned for free OR made up compared to the amount the genuinely talented low-class girl is able to earn. The reason the two poor families don't team up is because there is not enough access to resources; the Rich will only give resources to one of them. This is demonstrative for the wider problem of how the rich force the working class to compete with each other, instead of team up to force them to divide resources fairly. tHAT is why "mr. kim" removes the false headdress iconography created by another oppressor after he sees mr. park is repulsed by the corpse of the man who worships the rich, and kills him in an act of solidarity with him. He knows he and that man who lived under the stairs are the same-- a metaphor that becomes literal at the movie's end. It's the lack of any other punishment against the amorality of the rich that put him in that basement. they're all in the cage of a basement, the literal and figurative low. it's where they started the movie, and where they end. the rich all hate the smell, the rich can organize a party with hundreds of people on less than a day's notice, but the rich do not organize a way to tactfully create a way for them to smell better. that would require them to care about others. They Don't. They only care about what they can take from them (their saturdays, their time) even though they already have next to nothing. Because they are parasites.
One interesting point made in a class I took where we examined this film: most viewers who don't sympathize with the "poor" family don't because they view them as deceitful thieving crooks for infiltrating the Parks with their entire family as staff members and trying to lie their way into a better financial position... however, this is a very common quality of the ultra-wealthy in our society. How many articles and documentaries exist about wealthy people swindling others out of enormous amounts of money? How often do we see the wealthy employing their companies or (cough) their administration with their family members? Most of the criticisms we make about one group could be made about the other, just in different circumstances.
Wow that’s weird I empathized with the family until they started attacking the people who already worked at that house, but I never knew that people just never empathized with them at all
Most people empathize with the poor family lol. Tbh I don't think we're supposed to sympathize with any of them. Both are bad.
Actually I find that entitled people have a hard time sympathizing with the poor family.
So true
That's all fine and well, but I don't see how that pertains to the Kims.
A lot of walking up and walking down scenes, again symbolizing social class hierarchy
I'm both shocked and quite disappointed that the blue stripe shirt guy kept saying "deserved" and didn't understand WHY the smell is so important. NO Mr. Kim did not kill Mr. Park just because he stinks, but it's the utter disgust the rich see the poor as that they're nothing more than just a stench that makes their eyebrows furrow. The theme of this movie is about class hierarchy and insane gap between the two realities
This was a little like torture to watch this reaction. Mrs. Park literally does nothing, but lets whole family of impoverished people serve her for a tiny portion of her immense wealth. They hustle and hustle and end up with no home, go to serve their upper class employers, and be shamed for smelling like the struggle of society.
the fumigation scene with the dad continuing to fold the pizza boxes despite suffering through it and potentially risking his life is reflective of the grind that low waged/socioeconomic people go through just to make ends meet.
I honestly feel it's more natural to root for the poor family..... Of course what they did was objectively wrong, but they never intented to hurt anyone and it's not like they were scamming the family per se, they were doing their jobs right, they just never had the opportunity to gain the status that's seen as qualified enough in Korea. The rich family also isn't really "nice" I'd say... like the mother said, they're nice because they're rich. They can afford to be. They're nice in a very condescending manner, what with all the talk about "not crossing the line", the talk of the smell of poverty & them doing role play fetishizing poor people on drugs.
Jessica is the only character who didnt replace anyone unlike her family who got the job because they sabotage the other people who work on the family. Shes probably the only one who can be rich but then she died
The friend looked down on Kevin from the beginning. He didn't see him as competition, or equal, or desirable, he gave the family a fake rock (hence why it was floating when the apartment flooded).
I'm horrified with all the "deserved" I heard in this video when talking about the family with no privilege, trying to get by, and forced to bend morality just in order to do so, when they profit off the wealthy privileged family who despises them for being poor. The real parasites are those who amasses all the wealth, leaving their peers living in the gutter.
Agree!
exactly! in my opinion they've totally missed the point of the movie
I cringed every time they said it
@@awhnos That's what a lot of South Korean movies are trying to portray, the inequality of chances in a highly competitive world.
And it's sad to see the commenters saying they like the rich family "this poor nice family" and hate on the poor family, getting as far as saying they deserved what they got. Seing them being shocked at them trying to grab crumbs from the riches through dishonest means, and not being shocked at the giant gap between how much the rich family has access to, and how little the poor family gets (even when they all work)
It's also sad to see three people not getting the point that the movie makes about kindness being easy when you have everything handed to you, and how when you don't, sometimes, you have to do ugly shit in order to survive or see your family survive. And even though you like yourself less afterwards, you would never regret it because you know you had to get your hands dirty and that there was no other way to get some perspective.
I wish people would notice that more in daily life, and that the poor would receive less animosity and resentment when they try to get their share of the cake. And that the rich would get frowned at when they profit off of people's labour and desperation, justifying it by "I paid for it" as if it was normal to hold so much power over others depending on how much wealth you were lucky enough to have access to.
I wanted to slap the guy in the blue stripes…this movie was way over his head.
This is a film I wish I could see again for the first time! Parasite 100% deserved it's Best Picture and other Oscar wins.
Bong Joon Ho also is right, once you get past the 1 inch barrier that is reading subtitles, you'll be introduced to amazing films and stories.
1:08:45 “I’m not sure if it won an Oscar for anything else”
Meanwhile…at the 2020 Oscars: Parasite won Best Director (he won over Scorsese, Tarantino, Todd Phillips & Sam Mendes) Best Picture, Best Screenplay, Best International Film.
Not to mention Palme d’Or.
You guys only being fans of the rich family says so much. I mean how’d y’all miss the rich couple fetishizing poverty while they were hooking up on the couch. Right after talking about how that guy smells.
This is Batman syndrome. Batman being a billionaire who beats up a poor person for stealing from another poor person. Batman and the Park family are heroes!
@@christianwalker1829 Batman's stories are not about beating up poor people though, he helps the police do work that police themselves cannot because they are overwhelmed with crime.
Fun facts: At 04:17 the actress playing young pizzeria manager collecting their folded pizza boxes was the first zombie that started the outbreak in All of Us Are Dead after being bitten by the zombie rat. Also, the “self portrait” that the boy drew was actually a drawing of the man in the basement that he thought was a ghost.
My favourite sequence was the part where the scammer family smoothly sabotaged the housekeeper with the peach fuzz, especially with that music.
That is called montage
@@mayankprajapat4591 Yup
피자 소녀는 한국에서 단역임에도 신스틸러로 주목을 끌었습니다.Pizza Girl drew attention as a scene stealer even though she was playing a minor role in Korea.
parasite is one of my favorite movies to watch with someone for their first time, the twist reveal always hits! also we totally knew rob would have already seen it before he said anything lol, at this point it’s a running gag 😉
"Scamming" the rich for money, that most likely is withheld from taxes (which they intended to pay, as long as they could exploit the worker's financial situation and basicslly force them to live up to their expectations as the owners), is legit karma.
It is extremely unrealistic to have so much money and immoral to accumulate it just for it to be turned into materialistic items; so "losing" a few thousand or hundred thousand dollars means absolutely nothing to them. The labor is the foundation, the laborers are replaceable. At the end of the day they were going to spend money on services because they themselves cannot bring themselves to do normal daily tasks.
Capitalism normalizes overabundant wealth in an individual and a small amount of people in a given population; when this happens low-income to mid-income people are indoctrinated by the system and they begin to sympathize with the rich man (when there is no reason to, at least with sociopolitical and economic issues).
Yes, and I think this is exactly what happened here in the video commentary. The video made me super sad, but thanks god there is a comment section.
I think people need to learn a bit more about Korean culture in order to understand how Kevin will never be able to move up classes. The divide is too far apart which is seen in how low they have to go and far from the wealthy neighbourhood. Even being trapped in the basement it’s hopeless. Each the rich and the poor are parasitic in their own ways. The house itself is a character as well. Such an iconic film. I saw it in the theatres and it was an insane trip.
the movie kinda shows how society works... the family that lived in the half basement immediately started to look down on the couple in the full basement and how they chose to fight each other trying to secure and higher place in society but ironically ended back up to the same place if not even a lower place. I interpreted the rock as false hope of poorer people or it represents the family being fake
The majority of us (especially in the US) are only one or two expensive health emergencies or layoffs away from being in the Kim family's situation. If you believe your situation is more like the rich family being scammed, and that you can empathize with them more than the poor families, then the system has you fooled. The rich family is the top 0.01%.
or privileged as them, idk but they really didn't get the point of the movie
the three families in this film were all narratively designed as parasites under the economic strain of capitalism by the director, Bong Joon Ho.
The destitute couple secretly mooching and living off the rich family for years, justifying that they only took a little. The husband, Geun-sae, were in the basement bc he's indebted to loan sharks for his failed cakeshop (our protagonists were talking about this particular family in the scene where they were eating at a drivers canteen. they just didn't know each other and only that they were neighbors). The wife, Moon-gwang, was the shadow lady of the house and she'd done whatever it took to keep it that way, even when the fortune was never hers to begin with.
Our protagonists, well, crafty and clever as they were, you've seen what they did to get decent paying jobs. Ki-taek, was the patriarch of the Kim family and the decision maker but he was the least skilled to work among his family. Chung-sook, the mother, was an accomplished athlete but had to make do with her lot in life. I have a particular fondness of Ki-jung, the daughter. She's far more crafty than her brother and, if given enough education and employment resources, had a better chance to lift her family out of poverty. Her smart but less driven brother, Ki-woo, even said that she fit better to the lavish lifestyle than the rest of their family, foreshadowing her better adaptability to move up in the society. That's why she had to die; the narrative didn't allowed her to move out of her capitalism assigned station.
The rich family cannot properly function without their employees' works. The Park's patriarch, Dong-ik, being driven around everyday for work, and his company was named Another Brick as a reference to a Pink Floyd's song (Bong's favourite band in college) which carry the meaning that any tragedy, injustice or abuse can only be “another brick” in an already existing wall. His attitude to his employees was to throw money around and expects them to just shut up and bear their job. the rich mother, Yeon-go, named Ki-woo as "Kevin" willinilly to appear more westernized as he was her daughter's English tutor, lied about giving "Kevin" bonus payments, couldn't do basic housekeep, goshdarn indolent (when I was a child, my parents would employed live-in domestic assistant bc they're both working. my mama would berated me to hell and back if I asked her to do simple tasks when I could just do those tasks by myself), and had a tendency to emulate poor people's condition to fuel her sexual fantasy. the daughter, Da-hye, while granted that she's also experiencing some degree of neglect from her parents, was naive and looking for attentions not given by her parents. Da-song, the favourite child, pampered, fragile, waited on hand and foot, and being let running loose most of the time.
There was also the case of cultural appropriation by Da-song with the plethora of Native American "merchs" encouraged by his parents, portrayed as another type of parasitism.
Hoping nobody else has posted this yet, but the end song they play during kevins letter, is called 500 years. roughly the estimated time it would take for him to pay for the house.
Even if they weren’t related, I think it’s natural to prioritize mortal injury over a regular seizure… class should not matter, wtf.
I don’t know if you get it but when Kevin planned to buy the house, I think it was a metaphor that it was impossible to do because what his dad says about having a plan, it would just fail.
I can't believe y'all sympathised with the rich family, I didn't particularly like anyone through out the movie but at the end of the day, the poor are fucked and the rich don't care about them
love watching u guys but Zuff gets a D- in class consciousness
Back when they were on the festival circuit the director Bong broke down the math for everyone of how long Kevin would have to work and how much money he would have to make to be able to afford that house and it was literally beyond normal life expectancy. They give you the notion that it’ll happen and you want to believe him but his dream will only ever be just that a dream and his dad more than likely dies down there.
the song at the end is called "one glass" and is sang by kevin, and is about that and how in korea's actual economy it will take him approximately 564 years for him to earn enough money to purchase the house.
The rich family saying they had a horrible time when camping was cancelled, meanwhile the poor family lost their home to a flood…the stark contrast of living at the top and living at the bottom. Capitalism at its finest…pitting poor people against each other while the rich people live comfortably from their mansions isolated from the problems of the world 🤷🏻♀️
Remember when mr kim said "the best plan is no plan at all". And the first letter that kevin write is "i have a plan..". So that mean it would never happen, unfortunately his father would never escape
LOL. I can't believe you blame the poor family for their home being flooded on them taking the rock out. LOL. The lack of empathy y'all have for the family is crazy... and that you think its deserved. LOL.
I was giving y'all the benefit of the doubt at least until the flood... thinking you might develop some empathy. But you blame them? And you make fun of their smell.
i was horrified... this movie really shows you who people are
"I'm only a fan of the rich family right now" said the rich white dude from 'Murica💀
Yeah yikes
You had more sympathy for the rich people because I could never. 🤣
I think these guys grew up in a nice community. Look at how they reacted to the dog being pushed. Many ppl (myself included) just laughed at moments like that. But they were genuinely appalled at any moment in the film where someone was being mistreated and had enough empathy to try to empathize with everyone. Lemme be clear, this is a great thing, these are the type of ppl you want in the world. But it goes to show what the mom was talking about when she said "rich people and niceness". When all of your needs are met, it's easy to be magnanimous. While poverty strips away you're capacity to worry about others.
White ass men who grew up privileged would have more sympathy with the rich ofc lol
@@ggss5717 Well, I agree with you but not about the dog being pushed. I have 3 dogs and maybe I am being biased but I would slap anyone who would do that to a dog/kid/any animal. Don't understand how could people laugh at such thing.
@@michaelaroskova4793 But real life is different. In real life i wouldn't laugh at anyone behaving like this family. But in the movie it's funny.
@@ggss5717 no, because in the movie it's real as well. Real woman pushed real dog.
Is their poor understanding and lack of depth regarding the movie due to their age or privilege?
another masterpiece from bong joon-ho : memories of murder (2003), Snowpiercer (2013), Mother (2009)
Snowpiercer IMO one of Chris Evans’ best performance
35:21 The first few times I watched Parasite I somehow didn't really know why I hated the couple more than the family, but now I see why: they acted like they were better off, as my guy Bryce said, while they're literally illegally living there and hiding from debt collectors, all that for 4 years now. Far worse than just taking advantage of a family to find a good paying job in a few days.
Yessss this movie is a masterpiece I'm so glad it won the poll 😁😁
the movie has a lot of easter eggs and deep meaning that you've missed but that's normal for a first time watching
Kevin is the main baseball guy from the train to busan
Chocada que vocês sentiram mais empatia pelas pessoas que tem dinheiro e uma boa vida, do que por aqueles que estão fazendo de tudo pra sobreviver em uma sociedade totalmente desequilibrada.
siiiim
Every couple of months I search new videos of first reaction to Parasite just to witness people experiencing this roller coaster of a masterpiece. I wish I could erase my memory of ever watching this movie just so I could experience it all over again
I've seen the film a few times and many reactions. of course, class difference is a big theme, but increasingly I think another theme is how people tend to frame their view of reality based on their own circumstances. This includes views on who can be trusted and views of relative morals.
Also, the montage 1/3 of the way through is excellent.
it's frustrating to see that yall thought the rich family were good guys. it's all an examination of class in Korean society where no matter what talent or intelligence you have, you are essentially doomed to live in the class you were born into... and the Parks were just ungrateful beneficiaries of that system. the Kims were never going to afford college or move up in any other way. their deceptions were in service of getting jobs/work that they put effort into fulfilling. this was the poor competing with the poor for the few scraps left by the rich. some of the poor start to equate the rich with virtue as if all they have is earned or meritorious, like the basement ghost, and of course the even rich who knowingly and unknowingly use the system are used to believing themselves both better than and more deserving. the Parks considered them all replaceable fodder to feed their needs. the daughter was no pawn either as she obviously got into dalliances with anyone who happened to fall into the job of being her tutor.
Whats sad about this movie is that kevin (ki woo) can never get the house. it says in the end credit song that it implies that it takes 564 years to buy the damn house! It broke my heart knowing that he never got it, thats a very realistic ending💔 Amazing film btw, love your reaction to it too💜
bryce and zuff focusing on the wrong stuff
love yall tho
I sense they grew up rather privileged…and this movie went WAY over their head.
yeah they are ignorant af
The former housekeeper rings the front buzzer at exactly the half-way point of the film, marking the moment everything changes.
Yes, Parasite!
I watch Hollywood and European movies along with all other Asian movies, I get to use all my palette. I'm glad ya'll are exploring Cinema not just Hollywood.
Actually I think the rich people especially the parents were also bad as the poor family in the movie, they were really not the main point of view of the movie that's why we sometimes failed to look about their bad actions too. I think the main point of this movie is what humans are willing to do to survive, it doesn't really matter whether you are poor, middle class or rich. No one's is purely evil or good, just individuals striving to survive in this society.
This movie is indeed a masterpiece :) Symbolism about social hierarchy was beautifully woven into the plot. This is one of the movies that showed the West how good Korean cinema is as well, and the movie that smashed the 1 inch barrier known as subtitles. This movie achieved a lot. Now people aren't just going - herp derp not in English, therefore not worth watching - but giving production in other languages a try, especially Asian ones.
fun fact bong joonho said that kevin need 564 years to actually buy that house so probably his father will live there forever until his death
Something that occurred to me just recently, is that Ki-taek is very often the one screwing things up on the Kims' end:
- He misfolded his share of the pizza boxes, resulting in their pay being docked
- He's the only one who screwed up and started to drop character while on the job, which would've aroused Dong-ik's suspicions if he had just one more brain cell
- When the family was listening in on Chung-sook and Moon-gwang, he's the one who slipped and made everyone fall
- He let Moon-gwang get away while he was tying her up, which meant Chung-sook had to kick her down the stairs to keep from getting caught
- He knew Moon-gwang had a head injury, but didn't tell Chung-sook so she could get her medical attention during the night
- He stopped putting pressure on Ki-jeung's stab wound when she said it hurt, which for all we know may have made the difference between her living and dying
- And of course, in the end he snapped and killed Dong-ik, which turned a situation where they all could've gotten away with a mere probation into one where he's wanted for murder
I'm a fairly new subscriber so I was looking at the things you guys reacted to before and was so excited to see your reaction to this movie but the more I watched the more it reeks of privilege. Not seeing how bad the poor family had it and why they did everything they did is wild to me.
The joke about the smell in the gymnasium was bad too.
I agree these guys ultimately missed the point of the film but, what?? That gym would smell crazy bruh; there’s a hundred people grouped together that just spent half the night in murky rainwater lmao
It’s not a slight to poverty it’s just a fact of the matter.
Brooo I clicked so fast omg I wasn't expecting you guys to react to this but I'm so glad you did!!
Some of ya'll need to rewatch it again because someone missed the entire point of the film.
Literally every comment on this video is saying that yet NO ONE IS EXPLAINING THE MEANING, and Rob definitely got it, zuff didn't but that's normal
There's a Drew Berrymore romcom where Drew's Cinderella tells the Prince: "what else is to be concluded, sire, that you first CREATE thieves, and then punish them?"
That's what this movie was trying to say. The rich create these families who are forced to steal food from their fridge and hot water from their bathtubs. Then the rich call them parasites for it
love how accurate your predictions are
the lack of critical thinking in this is comical
The amount of symbolism and hidden stuff in this movie is insane, with every watch you pick up more
Tale of Two Sisters is an amazing Korean film from the 2000s. I only watched it in the last couple of years and I was blown away.
Neither family was good. I think a couple of you missed the point. The guy in the red hat got it. Anyway, I subscribed. If you haven’t already take a look at “The Witch - The Subversion”. Amazing good Korean film and it also stars the same actor who played the son (the tutor). Like Parasite you think you know what is going on and then half way through…nope. Great for reactions film.
the doll behind you guys is kinda scary
Bong likes to talk about class in his movies (Snowpiercer is maybe the most obvious). In this case, the poor family thinks it can move up by being a parasite to the rich family. Then, when they discover another poor family, rather than work together to move up, they just tear each other down. The poor are never able to move up in society because they fight amongst themselves. The poor dad eventually recognizes this and instead of killing the guy who killed his daughter, he kills the rich guy instead. But now he's in trouble from the law, and he takes the place of the guy who killed his daughter in the basement. The family is broken, but the son still dreams they can somehow escape their lower class. In societies where class is more obvious (the UK for example), it becomes more obvious how hard it is to get out of the lower class. In the US, the lower class believes, with hard work, it can move up and so those class differences aren't things Americans think about like they do in countries with a more established class system (India, being another example).
You guys should totally watch "Parasite - Internal Class Warfare [Analysis]" by Salari. It's a short and very insightful video essay.
In the movie they say "money irons out the creases" - money affords niceness. As the mother pushes away the dog she says, if I were rich I'd be very nice too.
I don't think the mum is someone you would call "pure"... like yes, I guess at the start she comes across as that, but in all the shots we see of her... she's not. for instance, even at the beginning, she tells Kevin that she's "added a bit for inflation" to what Min's rate was, but just before she tells Kevin this, she actually takes some out of the envelope straight away. She may be gullible, but she's immediately characterised as a liar. Furthermore, she's able to easily get rid of those working in the house without a valid reason. Mr. Park even just tells her to "make up some excuse" to get rid of them. Hence, she throws people out without a second thought - this even happened to the housekeeper who'd been working there for years. She also. throughout the entire film, makes insensitive comments about poor people (e.g. the scene on the couch) and doesn't really care what happens to those around her or the other people in the city (e..g the rain). So no, she's not pure, but simply "nice because she's rich". She's also gullible because she's rich - the reason why she didn't care about Dahye's grades as long as Dahye was happy.
yayyyyy some nice therapy after my exam thanks again guys 😌 and LOVE this movie even after 2yrs bong joon ho ftw
I hope u could react to The Witch: Subversion ✨
yess
Dont forget ; The Man From Nowhere (2010)
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Yes!!!
This reaction to this film speaks to the privilege they have. I like to see how people react to movies like this because I like to know if people from different (or similar) circumstances can empathize with people who have been through way worse than them. Clearly, this film went over their heads.
I never get tired of it honestly
This movie will blow you away even more if you go watch a video that shows all the symbolism in it. It truly is everywhere ..
Also the ending when Kevin said he's gonna buy the house. It's impossible, so that means the dad is gonna die there alone. Sad. love this film. 10/10
lol this reaction. the rich family are obviously the villains..
the guy in the middle look like Bieber from 2020
Best movie of the past decade
Words cannot describe my feelings towards the film, especially when I think of how I avoided the film because I didn't like the preview or the picture on the advert.
It's such a, great film... U d, be left speechless for at least 2 minutes after watching it😁
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Omg you guys should watch the movie The Witch Part 1 The Subversion, that's also a really good Korean movie, one of my favs!
Yes!!!
The rock is not that heavy. Remember when the rock fload. Thats why kevin not die
Hope you don't take this the wrong way but it felt like you sort of didn't catch a lot of the symbolism and subtleties
This is one of my FAVORITE MOVIE !
Director Bong said the rock means nothing because it is already said in the movie if it’s some kind of a metaphor. If it were really a metaphor, he wouldn’t have put the lines in the movie but let the audience guess.
wow y’all literally didn’t get the movie
i still remember when i watched this for the first time and the tone change happened i lost my MIND
Thumbs up for the cool posters
Now I really want to see ur reaction on Midnight runners 😭😭
you guys should watch extreme job. its so funny and you could just watch it in your own spare time just for some laughs
Recommendations for you and I hope you consider these movies;
1. Gone Girl
2. The Others
3. The Invisible Guest (Spanish movie, available in Netflix)
4. Predestination
4. Run All Night
5. The Commuter
6. Mirage (Spanish Movie; available in Netflix)
7. I Care A Lot (Netflix)
I hope you consider these movies. These are some mind f*cking movies that I love.
OMGGG CANT WAIT TO WATCH THISSSSS
This movie is changed a lots people’s life
A masterpiece indeed! 🔥
Rich family said the smell was came from subway. We wanted to be differentiate from the poor family, but most people who lives in the megacity use subway. That means we are not on the same position, the rich family.
The Witch: Subversion
Not only could they not see the boxes, but the residue from the fumigation would make every pizza inside them have a nasty taste if their boxes were used.
The massacre assumption sounds so far fetched, unless you’ve already seen the film 😂
1:08:45 not just Best Picture, but also for Best Director, Int'l Film, Original Screenplay, Editing, and Production Design