Parasite (new Bong Joon Ho movie)

yeah, it's most likely some kind of quiet substance abuse but it seemed a bit more strange on my first viewing because it comes right after she's been described as 'simple' - like what's really going on here

I figured it was equally possible she's just incredibly bored

I thought it was supposed to indicate she was struggling with depression or possibly mental illness.

i thought drunk and passed out at first, but that didn't really jibe with her character the rest of the movie.

could have definitely been tranquilizers, after all, she had to fill a tutor position, and an art teacher position and her husband may have been giving her shit about it (we never saw them much without the 'help' around, who knows what they were really like)

apparently they liked handjobs

i kept wondering if their kid was going to walk in from his tent while that was happening

no time to be horny when you're the underclass

when you're rich you can just be horny whenever

the mock disgust about their driver having sex in the car (and in THEIR SEAT) followed by a fantasy about that scenario!

which reveals that their earlier speculation + dismay about the scenario was in fact a personal sexual fantasy

One of the things that stuck with me was the little tease of the possibility of class solidarity, when it’s revealed that both husbands had worked at the same failed business. there were a few seconds where I thought there might be a mutual understanding, and then it all descends further into chaos.

I thought that was possible, but that was a trend in SK — there were a ton of cake shops of that type that saturated the market then went bust. And the original basement guy had borrowed cash from loan sharks to start a business, while Kim had only worked in one in his series of ephemeral jobs

the fact it isn’t followed so the fact there’s no follow-up means it likely was a different shop


https://blog.lewislee.net/2019/10/parasite-understanding-underlying-tragedy-of-taiwanese-cake-shop/

Fascinating.

sorry for zing malformatted post. I was eating lunch

I'm not sure if I agree with the blogger that Kim was aspiring to own something necessarily -- he seems like he's just working to make ends meet. Basement guy definitely was striving with his loan shark deal

yeah, it's most likely some kind of quiet substance abuse but it seemed a bit more strange on my first viewing because it comes right after she's been described as 'simple' - like what's really going on here

When Mr. and Mrs. Park were canoodling on the couch, she chants "Buy me drugs!" My theory is that she had been a bar girl when they met. She's not necessarily damaged by such a past, but she probably had not been very well educated and lucked into a good marriage.

it's a little hazy now but i thought that was her roleplaying being a lower-class woman?

yeah, they were speculating earlier in the movie about why a woman would have sex in the car and surmised that such a person would *have* to be on drugs

entire imaginary idea of their driver picking up a drug-addled loose woman or sex worker who he then had sex with in *their seat*

they were trying to figure out how one ends up leaving their underwear behind rather than like an earring

lol at this wildly misleading french poster

Mubi column on Parasite movie posters: https://mubi.com/notebook/posts/movie-poster-of-the-week-the-posters-of-parasite
On that "misleading" french poster:

Of all the French variants, however, this one got the most attention on social media until the French distributor—the aptly named The Jokers—revealed that the poster was made as a parody of French comedy posters, citing this montage as evidence: https://assets.mubi.com/images/notebook/post_images/29838/images-w1400.jpeg?1579571205

blue_and_yellow.xls

that's wonderful

i like the poster even more now

Genius. Now I need someone to mock up a red and white one for America.

i like that it's never really explained why mrs park is slumped across the garden table unconscious when ki-woo goes to visit for the first time - just a weird unsettling little detail

Apologies j.lu got there first

she’s role playing in that scene!!

Parasite being re-released in black-and-white is a process I refer to as Logan-ing, and further evidence that Bong Joon-ho is a James Mangold tier filmmaker.

— 𝕮𝖔𝖒𝖊 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝕲𝖊𝖙 𝕸𝖊, 𝕮𝖔𝖕𝖕𝖊𝖗𝖘 (@NickPinkerton) February 1, 2020

lol what? I strongly disagree, he's infinitely better than that hack.

Although I thought Snowpiercer and his tv thing were both total unwatchable dog-shit .... i still wouldn't go that far bearing in mind his previous greatness!

Film critics in that habit of reminding audiences that THIS movie can't be better than THAT movie made by another filmmaker twenty years ago. Why this is my preferred response:

I disagree. For a lot of people, Parasite is probably their first taste of both Korean cinema and Bong Joon-ho. The enthusiasm is genuine and I personally haven't seen any positive reviews or reactions that struck me as inauthentic. It's a good fuckin movie with broad appeal.

— Equespionage (@TheBrooksening) February 1, 2020

Ford vs Ferrari is a stronger indictment of capitalism than Parasite. Except Mangold holds back. But the story, yikes, fuck Ford forever.

downloaded a screener of that over xmas, but still haven't motivated myself to watch it. But I suffer from an allergy to motorsport.

It's not bad, and it will make you hate capitalism even more.

Pinkerton kinda making a joek there

Hey everyone

Just checking in

Haven’t checked this thread since I started it but I assume everyone has uniformly praised this movie and there is no backlash here

Insane sweep! Don't know if anyone saw that coming. Congrats!

haven't cared about the Oscars in years but they did good this time.

long overdue recognition too for South Korean cinema, which has been producing some of the best films of the past two decades.

Was just saying the latter to my friend

this is how bernie wins

by teaching art to a rich kid?

the art is marxism and the rich kid is the united states of america, do u see

(if the joker won best picture it would have guaranteed a second trump term btw)

Trump issues Executive Order declaring JOker best picture

damn the cheeto-in-chief has gone too far this time

please enjoy this gif of bong joon ho giggling at his oscar pic.twitter.com/6ErVC8NEef

— Kathryn VanArendonk (@kvanaren) February 10, 2020

hah! that is so charming

bernie should neg the electorate into voting for him by calling them a bunch of locals

I saw this for the second time last night and I went from loving it (first time) to thinking it was an absolutely flawless masterpiece. So wild that it won BD and BP oscars!

I watched Parasite last night. Really enjoyed it, and I continue to get more out of it the more I consider it--although I feel a little let down because of the hype cycle (and watching it so late in the cycle).

I have this idea stuck in my head that the structure of the film mimics the sort of flowing structure of their house. The screenplay moves you from scene to scene the way a Louis Kahn building might guide you through blended spaces--and it hides a lot of the functional story scaffolding with tight writing, the way the house (and Kahnian structures) hides away all its functional bits. Both the architecture of the house and the relationships between characters have "served" and "servant" spaces.

long overdue recognition too for South Korean cinema, which has been producing some of the best films of the past two decades.

btw Scorsese has played no small role in championing SK filmmakers, and I think he wd've looked happier about this at the Oscars if his film hadn't been shut out.

tbf parasite was shorter

good architectural take, Unctious