Even though Parasite is not a strict horror film (it’s more like a black comedy), it has a complex story that can be very dark and twisted at times.
The Movie is so good that it deserves to be acknowledged as a multi-category film.
The Movie flirts with different genres and knows how to nail it.
Parasite follow a poor family, the Kims, who parasite a wealthy family (The Parks), almost living in their house and lying to them constantly about their true identities.
The Kim family lives in a banjiha, which is a semi-basement flat.
They live in the crowded Seoul, struggling for money with their low-income jobs. The crude reality of a lot of Koreans living in a basement in one of the most advanced and affluent cities in the whole world.
When they meet the Parks, The Kims prepare a plan to get each of them a job in the house, pretending to be something they are not.
The Movie entangles more and more, showing us the differences between the families, the arrogance of the Parks, and the jealousy of the Kims. It leaves us with an excellent portrait of the constant battle between social classes.
The more we get into the plot, the crisper it becomes. It shows us what each character really has inside of them, situations that are perhaps not so funny but terrifying and painful, slowly revealing the truth hidden behind the walls of the Parks mansion.
The Cast In Parasite
Song Kang-ho as Kim Ki-taek
Lee Sun-kyun as Park Dong-ik
Cho Yeo-jeong as Choi Yeon-gyo
Choi Woo-shik as Kim Ki-woo
Park So-dam as Kim Ki-jung
Jang Hye-jin as Chung-sook
Lee Jung-eun as Gook Moon-gwang
Park Myung-hoon as Oh Geun-sae
Jung Ji-so as Park Da-hye
Jung Hyeon-jun as Park Da-song
Park Keun-rok as Yoon
Reception of Parasite
Parasite won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 92nd Academy Awards. It was the first non-English-language film to win the Award.
Also won three more Oscars:
Best Director
Best Original Screenplay
Best International Feature Film.
Critics
On Rotten Tomatoes, Parasite has an approval rating of 99% and an average rating of 9.4/10.
“Wildly entertaining, the kind of smart, generous, aesthetically energized movie that obliterates the tired distinctions between art films and popcorn movies”. The New York Times, A. O. Scott.
“A work that is itself in a state of constant, agitated transformation—a nerve-racking masterpiece whose spell lingers long after its haunting final image” Vulture magazine, Bilge Ebiri.
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