Parasite (new Bong Joon Ho movie)

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

Hiding away all the functional bits:

https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2019-10/8/22/asset/33868f2ff72e/sub-buzz-2027-1570575066-1.png

The 2nd floor was CGI and added in post. Individual rooms were separate sets on soundstages. So, no visiting the Parasite home, unless its this miniature (6 parts):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvdpE1YSzYg

Hasn't Tarantino done a lot more to champion SK film?

Bong thanked Tarantino in his speech too, specifically for years of talking up his early films before anyone else in America paid him any attention.

(More recently Tarantino had a one-off 35mm print of Okja commissioned, and screened it at his theatre as a first-run engagement for a week after it first came out on Netflix. Then brought it back for a week the next month as the back half of double features with King Kong, Free Willy, Razorback and Babe: Pig In The City. And changed the vegan hot dogs at the snack bar to "Okja dogs.")

I think the Tarantino-led jury giving Oldboy the Grand Prix in Cannes is a milestone too.

Watched it today, finally.

This movie is absolutely incredible, and deserved all the awards and more.

Saw this again and liked it a lot more the second time

Here's a fun thing I learned a lot from

https://zenkimchi.com/featured/cultural-details-you-missed-in-parasite

cool, thanks

we saw this last night and loved it, not much to add here though.

Really liked how this review dealt with the film as critique and it's awards success

"What, if anything, can we make of the fact that a film ostensibly dedicated to satirising the rich has been praised so extensively by the very individuals and institutions who uphold this order?"
Rebecca Liu on Bong Joon-ho’s 'Parasite'https://t.co/LWqyxBN2hS

— Another Gaze: A Feminist Film Journal (@anothergaze) February 13, 2020

I do recommend this read:

https://variety.com/2020/film/news/parasite-bong-joon-ho-interpreter-oscars-sharon-choi-1203505571/

That’s beautiful. As a bilingual who has also done work as a translator/interpreter, I really relate to her feelings about having to choose between languages and I think I feel the same way about music as she does about film.

Hey I finally saw this!

it was pretty good

do they have Miranda rights in South Korea? that was weird

welcome to parasite club

xp i think they have those rights, but cops aren't required to recite them. seemed to me like a kind of subtle character joke about the detective, that he loved to watch american crime shows and relished the opportunity to read rights.

Similar to the What's App / KakaoTalk thing, it may just be a localization/translation choice.

that's what I suspected - I mean it seems entirely plausible that the Korean legal system would incorporate such rights, wildly implausible that they would use the American term tho

I liked this overall but was a little put off by ultimately how sympathetic every character was. I'm sure that's appealing to the Academy and yr average viewer, but it leaves the class analysis a little toothless, very "welp that's just the way things are, everyone's trapped in it!" which I don't find particularly enervating or insightful.