TMDB 8.5
2019
South Korea
132 min
Parasite
Directed by Bong Joon-ho
Act like you own the place.
Greed and class discrimination threaten the newly formed symbiotic relationship between the wealthy Park family and the destitute Kim clan.
Starring
Song Kang-hoLee Sun-kyunCho Yeo-jeongChoi Woo-shik
with Park So-dam, Lee Jung-eun, Jang Hye-jin, Park Myung-hoon
Cinematography — Hong Kyung-pyo
Music — Jung Jae-il
Screenplay — Bong Joon Ho
Screenplay — Han Jin-won
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Companion
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee
Four generations of a Korean family trying to climb. Bong compresses it into one basement.
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02
Companion
The Consumer Society
Baudrillard on consumption as a class language. The Parks speak it; the Kims imitate it.
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03
Companion
The Society of the Spectacle
Debord on life replaced by its own image. The house is the spectacle; the basement is what it stands on.
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Soundtrack
Parasite OST
Jung Jae-il
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