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Published 10:00 AM EDT Oct 24, 2019
The best films, when you walk out of the theater after seeing them, leave you with the feeling of not just having seen something but of having experienced it — now that, you think, was a movie.
Which is exactly how you feel upon exiting Bong Joon Ho's brilliant 'Parasite,' about two families on opposite ends of the wealth spectrum, which he directed and co-wrote. It's a nearly perfect film, from Bong's masterful use of framing and visual language and control of a wildly shifting tone to the performances (all terrific) to the commentary on class division.
If that last bit worries you that this might be some stuffy exercise in cultural navel-gazing, don't let it. 'Parasite' is also relentlessly entertaining, in about 10 different ways. It's thoughtful and funny and tense and charming and horrifying and brutal and … I don't know, pretty much whatever else you can think of.
And thanks to Bong's genius, all of that blends seamlessly.
The film's first shot is of a window in a semi-basement apartment — you have to look up a bit to see street level. When you do, eventually, you'll see a man urinating on a wall, something we learn is an annoyingly common problem.
Here in this apartment lives the Kim family, Ki-taek (Kang-Ho Song) and his wife Chung-sook (Hye-Jin Jang), and their children, son Ki-woo (Woo-Sik Choi) and daughter Ki-Jung (So-dam Park). They'd have to neaten the place up a bit to elevate it to squalor. Ki-woo and Ki-Jung spend the opening minutes searching for free WiFi; the woman who lives upstairs finally has locked hers with a password.
They subsist on the meager wages they make folding pizza boxes, which they aren't very good at doing. When a worker fogs the streets with pesticide, Ki-taek instructs his family to leave the windows open, in hopes the chemicals will kill the stink bugs inside the place.
Poor as they are, they're comfortable with each other. But they're also strivers. Ki-woo's friend offers him a sweet gig tutoring the daughter of a rich family. And thus begins the infiltration.
The Park family (Sun-kyun Lee and Yeo-jeong Jo) live in the magazine-quality former home of a famous architect; they've kept his housekeeper (Jeong-eun Lee). Despite not having gone to college, Ki-woo talks his way into the job tutoring Da-hye (Ji-so Jung) (along with some excellent Photoshop skills provided by his sister on the necessary documents).
Sensing opportunity, he says he knows an art teacher and therapist who might be excellent with their son. He just doesn't tell them it’s his sister, who knows nothing about such work (after a successful first session she tells Ki-woo she Googled art therapy and ad-libbed the rest).
Soon, after more intricate and nefarious schemes, Ki-taek has replaced the chauffeur and Chung-sook the housekeeper.
The Park's son, who is kind of a brat, notices that these four supposed strangers all smell the same. As they scheme how to take care of this, Ki-taek beams and remarks how lucky they are to have such a problem. It's patently dishonest, but it beats starving.
Ki-woo occasionally talks about metaphors, though it's not clear if he has a complete grasp on what the word means. Bong certainly does. He deals in them throughout. But he also can be literal minded. No spoilers here, but the whole 'Upstairs, Downstairs' — and even farther downstairs — vibe takes on a literal meaning when secrets are revealed. Ki-taek, drunk, says at one point that the Parks are rich but they're still nice. Chung-sook disagrees. They're nice because they're rich, she says. A squeamishly fascinating scene in which the Kims hide under tables just inches away from the Parks and hear them talking reveals who's right.
The Parks are nice, though, sort of, in their condescending, tin-eared way. Bong sets things up not so that you root for one family over the other, but so that you just watch, sometimes slack-jawed, as long-established societal norms refuse to go down without a fight.
You can take that literally, too.
By this point 'Parasite' is more or less a horror movie. But the horror isn't supernatural, though one character claims to have seen a ghost. It's found more in watching the way people behave, and how hard they will fight to hold on to what they believe is theirs. Nothing is off the table when your status is threatened, no matter what your station in life. 'Parasite' explores this in stunning fashion.
Now that was a movie.
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’Parasite,’ 5 stars
Director: Bong Joon Ho.
Cast: Kang-ho Song, Yeo-jeong Jo, So-dam Park.
Rating: R for language, some violence and sexual content.
Note: At Harkins Camelview at Fashion Square. In Korean, with subtitles.
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Published 10:00 AM EDT Oct 24, 2019
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