Parasite is Bong's magnum opus, one of the best movies of the 2010s and one of the most uniquely insightful films of the 21st Century thus far.The movie stars Song Kang-ho as Kim Ki-taek, a father ...

Parasite accurately reflects this reality, letting the viewer peek into the Kim family’s crowded semi-basement apartment while the Park family enjoys their flourishing designer home. This kind ...

If you watch the film again, closely, prior to that, you’ll see the Kim family is having their house party. Ki-jung is eating jerky and she figures out it’s for the puppy and freezes.

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Upstairs, Downstairs: The Metaphors of Parasite Bong Joon-ho on his obsession with stairs, Psycho, and how we eat By Jenny Nulf, Fri., Nov. 1, 2019 ...

In the ’70s, the poet Kim Chi Ha likened han to a “people eating monster,” saying that “accumulated han is inherited and transmitted, boiling in the blood of the people.” “Han” may ...

Where other eat-the-rich dramas are self-congratulatory, morally rigid, and, ultimately, a little flimsy in their world-view, Parasite goes further and deeper. Everyone in the film is painted in ...

The title of the scathing new South Korean film “Parasite” refers to the Kim family, destitute basement dwellers who try to climb the social ladder by leeching off the wealthy Park family ...