After being crowned at the Cannes Film Festival in 2019, Parasite has already been televised but has never been available for streaming. Finally it is on Prime Video. Hooray!
What is it about?
Ki-taek’s entire family is unemployed and has a keen interest in the wealthy Park family’s lifestyle. One day, their son manages to get a recommendation to give private English lessons in the parks. This is the beginning of an uncontrollable spiral from which no one will really come out unscathed…
Parasite, directed by Bong Joon-ho, written by Bong Joon-ho and Han Jin-won Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Yoo-jeong… Available on Prime Video
A golden palm branch that agrees with everyone
Critics and audiences are left with raves as soon as Parasite enters the conversation. And for good reason, Bong Joon-ho’s film, despite its supposed satire, sounds devilishly righteous. His depiction of the social inequality that plagues his country, South Korea, has universal value, like any great film that approaches a subject through the small end of a telescope and delivers it to another dimension.
It hits where it hurts with this portrait of two families placed at the extremes of the social scale: on the one hand, a very wealthy family consisting of non-drinkers, adults and children; On the other hand, a poor family consisting of equally unloving people.
Bong Joon-ho’s direction is full of brilliant ideas. In an incredibly cinematic setting, the Park House – billed in the film as a design by a famous architect, despite being built from scratch for the needs of the film – Joon-ho plays with the notion of verticality throughout history.
From the top of the house to the basement, through the living room table, where the action almost reaches its climax, the South Korean director puts the scenery at the service of the script, somewhat on the same principle as in Snowpiercer, but with a brutality that rings. More true, because this is not about science fiction. He deftly develops this notion to denigrate those who are treated like vermin and destroy those in power.
But beyond the social critique, Parasite is also pure enjoyable entertainment of brutality and dark humor. It is a brilliant film in its portrayal, funny, tense, charming, terrifying and brutal. Parasite is undoubtedly one of the movies that you should see at least once in your life.
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