*PARASITE* (2019) | Movie Reaction | First Time Watching
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- čas přidán 11. 07. 2024
- The poor Kim family slowly insinuates themselves into the home and lives of the wealthy Park family.
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Discussion - 34:06
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The song during the ending credits is called “564 years” which is the amount of time it would take for the son to buy that house earning the average salary in Korea. So it’s basically saying it will never happen
plus it's like forshodowing when the dad was lying down after the flood. he said " if you make a plan, life never works out that way. that's why people shouldnt make plans"
@@mariamama11And they (Kiwoo's family) actually took all the profits from being rich and improvised without planning. It's through no planning. Poor people have to make bets every day to survive. It's interesting how rich and poor people deal with and think about "planning".
It won Best Picture, Best Foreign language, Best screenplay and best director at oscars. It also won best picture at Cannes.
It definitely deserved all the praise!
The mood or direction of the movie completely changed once the doorbell was heard
That shot of him peeking up from the stairs was scary as f*ck. Gave me chills when I first watched it too.
The thing about the poor families is that no one can accuse them of not trying hard enough or not having the raw talent to succeed. Both the poor dad and the basement dude went through several failed business ventures, which didn't fall apart for lack of effort. The poor mom earned a silver medal at the national level, which was the only thing the poor dad saved from his flooded home. That shot of Jessica smoking a cigarette on the bursting toilet really encapsulates how poverty and desperation limits your decision-making and pushes you towards pursuing short-term rewards and addiction. What's the use of making long-term plans when things are so bad that there's no guarantee that your efforts will result in any improvements at all?
Outstanding comment.
It definitely deserved best picture that year.
Usually people have wrong guesses and conclusions with Parasite, but mother seems to be correct all the time. Great reaction.
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Director Bong Joon-Ho also directed Okja, Snowpiercer, Mother, and Memories of a Murder
His most commercial film, The Host, will be showing in an outdoor Korean arts fest at Lincoln Center in NY this month or in July, I think.
Depending on your perspective, the rich family could be considered the parasites: using the service of the poor to help create their luxurious lifestyle. To me though, I think the title refers to all three families. I always wince when Choong-sook (the new housekeeper) rejects the plea of Guk Moon-kwang (the old housekeeper)... and in turn when she and her husband taunt and gloat over discovering the family's confidence game. If the two poor families had formed an alliance it might well be that the fate of all three families would have been considerably less tragic. But I think part of the movie's point is that the South Korean economy (and by extension the economies of most industrial capitalist societies) create a culture where the rich are oblivious to the suffering around them, and the poor are left to cheat and fight among each other in order to survive. I found the social critique in the South Korean TV series THE SQUID GAME to have a very similar theme.
Exactly
Biff, I think you misunderstand how capitalism works. The rich family is not a parasite because unlike a parasite, they’re paying for services and it was a voluntary transaction. The couple were actually the parasites as the basement dweller weren’t paying any rent and the family were being deceptive in their employment. You must be one of these people who have innate hatred for the rich perceived to have gotten wealthy at the unfair expense of the poor.
It's very metaphorical...
I don't see how the Parks could be considered parasites for hiring people to perform a service. They're paying them for that service. Unless you think they aren't paying them enough? But that's a separate question.
@@NoriMori1992 I think an economic system that allows for the rich to hire the poor as servants is inherently unfair, and puts the rich in a parasitical class.
This is one of the perfect movies I've ever watched. just perfect!
The rich family were "users", they would see everyone as a commodity, as things they could use because they paid for "them". They were really entitled and obnoxious in very subtle ways, making decisions that would affect other people's lifes in a tremendous way, without even offering explanations. They would be fine mingling with "the help" for as long as it entertained them, but not as real human beings interacting with other human beings. For example when things went down, the rich father (and mother as well, now that I think about it) absolutely did not care for the "art teacher" being stabbed and held hostage, or the other guest being slashed, or their "maid" (the mother from the poor family) struggling with the killer, he just cared about their son having a seizure, and was absolutely going to just take the car and leave them there.
WASNT EXPECTING THIS, i love not just korean but asian movies in general..well foreign films in general, there's some awesome French and Brazilian movies too
Hope you do more foreign movies
Liked before I even started watching! I love this movie and I can’t wait to see what your thoughts are.
Brilliant film
I had two guesses for which scene caused your thumbnail reaction, and I was right! 🤣
Watch more Bong Joon-ho movies if you can. You won't regret it.
Okja is joyous, if a little mad; Snowpiercer and The Host are fun and quirky. I'd put them all in the bracket of "family movies". On the darker/sharper side, Mother is brilliant and Memories of Murder is probably Bong's best work (just ahead of Parasite). You should try to see them all. Song Kang-ho is a superstar in Korea for very good reasons - up there with Toshiro Mifune and Bob DeNiro for me.
Thanks for the suggestions!! 😊
2003 was such an incredible year in South Korean cinema. Three of the greatest Korean films ever made came out that year: Oldboy, Memories of Murder, and Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring - this last one is my favorite of the three and just one of my favorite movies overall.
I really love your reactions, raw and honest, you guys are the best! New subscriber here~
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He brought the stone with him to finish off the people down in the basement. He wanted to kill them. In his mind, that would solve their "problem"
Other Korean masterpieces: -
•Forgotten
•Kingdom ( TV Series) Netflix
•OldBoy
•Memories of Murder
•The Man From Nowhere
•Miracle in Cell No. 7
•Okja
•I Saw The Devil
•The Good, the Bad, the Weird
•The Great Battle
•Along with the Gods: The Two Worlds
•Alive
•The Witch : Part 1
Thank YOU for someone finally mentioning Forgotten. That film is so, so underrated when people talk about Korean cinema.
@@KyleS3m3noffIt's criminally underrated . I absolutely loved the twist and unpredictable plots.
Also the movie "The Witch" (Part 1) is a hidden gem! The action scenes are top notch
We just watched The Witch Part 1 - wow! It’ll be on YT this Friday. 😊
@Jen - Mom Thank You 🫶
There’s a Korean movie similar to this that I saw in the early 2000s called The Host. There’s a lot of political commentary in it.
You guys should watch "Oldboy" and "The Handmaiden", from Park Chan-Wook. With Parasite, in my opinion, they're the "holy trinity" of South Korean cinema. As a Brazilian, i recommend to you guys "City of God" too (a Brazilian movie).
Oldboy has been on my list for years!
The Handmaiden is a masterpiece as good as Parasite imo
Ciudad de Dios es lo mejor que tiene el cine latino
Can you also react to another Korean movie "Hello Ghost"? This will be completely different vibe but really worth watching..
Brilliant film...I think it was about class inequality and how BOTH sides were actually "parasites" of each other in different ways, using each other to maintain their own lives/lifestyles.
Did the police/detectives not pick up on the CCTV wire being cut when they investigated the incident? That's the only plot hole I can see from this otherwise masterpiece of a film.
Brilliant movie!
Great reaction of the film! If you have the stomach i sugest "I Saw the Devil"😀
watch OldBoy (2003)
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I feel like there are scenes in this I didn’t see before. Is this like a director’s cut? I am pretty forgetful at times unfortunately
Not sure! There seems to be just one version on Netflix.
@@Flix2Us I probably just forgot then haha 😅
@@CrownlessKing88 you just forgot cause there's not any other version except gray scale thing.
@@CrownlessKing88 I caught more on the second viewing. Also, reading the sub-titles seemed effortless the second go around and so I caught more of the acting also. Such a spectacular movie.
try squid game
Their plans would have worked if they werent so stupid, careless and arrogant. Infiltrating the house is one thing but all being in the house together while the Parks were away was such a costly mistake. Getting caugh was so avoidable. But unfortunately this was like extremely poor people winning the lottery. The mindset isnt there to hold on to wealth so subconsciously they get rid of what they cannot handle