Parasite (new Bong Joon Ho movie)

Sister sitting on top of the toilet smoking in the flooding bathroom was an incredible shot, imo

is there a thread for the lighthouse yet?

arr it be The Lighthouse (Eggers, 2019) - Pattinson, Dafoe, sea shanties

saw this in the theater tonight. really really amazing movie

i have at least four friends who basically never see movies who were raving to me about how brilliant this was

this is me right now

Sister sitting on top of the toilet smoking in the flooding bathroom was an incredible shot, imo

― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Saturday, November 9, 2019 10:12 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Very otm

jeez i can't stop thinking about this movie lol

Watching The Host just cause of this movie. Loved it.

the comedy in the first half was amazing. when 1/4 of the pizza boxes are folded badly and they look at the father lmao

many xps back to tipsy but i watched chang-dong's Poetry and it was fucking devastating. i see what you mean about "enjoying" Bong's work more, it's certainly easier on the palate and the soul! both are master filmmakers tho and I'm looking forward to strapping on the emotional armor and trying again with another film.

I saw this tonight and thought it was great. It was so well executed that its heavy-handedness didn't bother me. Besides Snowpiercer and Burning I haven't seen any of the respective directors' stuff so I'm stoked now to explore their filmographies :)

liked this a lot, though one small moment that irked me (SPOILERS) was when Mr. Park turned over the basement guy's body to get the keys and then actually holds his nose. I get that it was the impetus for the dad to flip out and stab Mr. Park but there had to be a better way to get to that moment. I know Mr. Park was a rich asshole but it still felt very false to me that your son just got stabbed and you're frantically trying to save him and yet somehow, instinctively I guess, you take that extra second to physically hold your nose?

there's more than a few moments like that, played for theatrical clarity to the rafters, and they're among the reasons that I find the "BRILLIANT FILM DEMOLISHES THE ELITES" criticism a bit silly.

they should have included odorama scratch-n-sniff cards.

dude's been living in a basement with no shower or sunlight for like 10 years, he probably smells pretty awful

TBF he probably got to shower from time to time when his wife was the housekeeper. But he definitely hadn't bathed in several weeks by the time Mr. Park smelled him.

you guys may be focussing on the wrong point there

Tbh I actually got slightly distracted trying to figure out the plumbing of the bunker, bc when the housekeeper first goes down there she gives her husband that thermos and he drinks it as if he's been dying of thirst. But then in the final montage Mr. Kim is shown flushing a toilet iirc? Implying that theres running water down there, which would also make sense if it was built as a panic room/nuclear bunker.

lol xp

ok fair play, the bits about the stinky poors were OTT

I enjoyed this much more than Burning, which I didnt like very much tbh. Both heavy-handed allegories that arent really as deep or challenging as they first appear, but Parasite was at least more entertaining.

I don't think it's an allegory -- they're poor and they're smelly and they have no wifi!

also we're gonna burn down their greenhouses

Every once in a while a movie comes along I just know I'm going to love, so I somehow manage to avoid 100% of spoilers and reviews. This was one of those movies, which I've kept away from since its premiere. What a movie. I haven't seen "Joker" and likely won't ever, but this is the radical call to arms that movie (possibly) pretends to be.

Alternatively, this is the Korean "The People Under the Stairs."

watched Mother because of the favorable comments by Ulysses and others above. I liked it a lot and was surprised by the turn it takes in the last half hour. I still haven’t seen Memories of Murder and Parasite, but this is my favorite of the four Bong films I’ve seen

glad to hear!

damn this was extremely entertaining

can’t wait to see it again

can’t quite believe that house was a set - what an incredible piece of production design

Wow, it was? The basement part, that I can believe, but the yard and exteriors and stuff?

https://www.indiewire.com/2019/10/parasite-house-set-design-bong-joon-ho-1202185829

Holy shit. Between stuff like this, Ari Aster and Robert Eggers, we are clearly living in a golden age of elaborate production design.

can’t quite believe that house was a set - what an incredible piece of production design

and the half-basement and street outside was a set too! just amazing

another great interview with bong’s dp

https://www.indiewire.com/2019/11/parasite-cinematographer-hong-kyung-pyo-1202189824/

Bong Joon Ho's galaxy brain take on superhero movies. pic.twitter.com/vPjTMhYB9n

— The Film Stage 📽 (@TheFilmStage) November 19, 2019

i think this is his elliptical method of saying "i like comic books and the idea of comic book movies but not so much marvel"

OK, somebody get him a run of Bernie Mireault's The Jam.

damn cant believe he would torpedo his career like that, tragic

hee, that's kinda the perfect Bong property.
Also maybe Doop. Or Stig's Inferno.

that's hilarious

I was very intrigued by the trailer when I saw it before The Lighthouse. Had no idea it had won big at Cannes.

Finally saw this a couple weeks ago when it finally opened in my market at the local arthouse. Very very good. This may very well be the best film I've seen this year
And since then it's really spread via word of mouth I think. Lots of people talking about it in my circles IRL and on social media and starting to see articles in the mainstream media about it.

This film definitely has legs financially, too, which is impressive for a foreign (particularly a Korean) film. This time a month ago it was playing in ~30 theaters nationwide, bumped to ~400 at the start of November, currently at 620 locations; where it's pulled in a whopping $15 mil. That in and of itself is pretty impressive.

By comparison, in the recent indie flick world, The Lighthouse's wide release went to just shy of 1,000 theaters at its peak (made about $10 million domestic and unlikely to go much further). Of course, the breakout A24 hit of the year "Midsommar" had a HUGE promo push beforehand and opened in 2,700 theaters right out of the gate... hanging around bit by bit for about three months to gross about $27.4 in total domestically.

Would love to see this movie really cross over in the states commercially, and particularly, would be nice to see it get enough attention to make it a contender for stuff like the Oscars rather than the sort of boomer bait that usually sweeps.

Definitely a breath of fresh air in a year that, like no other, has been dominated by sequels, remakes, reboots, and other such cash-grabs of existing Marvel/Disney, etc. corporate properties clogging up screens.

Not that I'm inherently adverse to that stuff, but to be honest, most of the big flicks of late have been lacking creatively. It's always nice to walk into the theater and totally immerse yourself in a brand new set of characters/a different world, rather than "Oh, good this is yet another movie in the _____ franchise".

Went into this not knowing anything and with no familiarity with Bong Joon-Ho (I'm one of those "basically never see movies" people like crut). My favorite movie so far this year, out of like uh 5. It's unbelievable that someone can make a film like this feel cohesive - definitely need to see more of Bong's films

his more recent ones would not be described as cohesive, imo

Yeah, and tbf, the lack of cohesion of "The Host" - that is to say, its crazy tonal shifts from horror to family melodrama to comedy to satire and so on - I want to say was heralded at the time as one of its attributes. Which it is! As it is for "Parasite," too, except that "Parasite" is more, you know, cohesive.

Yeah I meant it more to say that it takes talent to make this at all cohesive, not that cohesiveness is the quality I am looking for. I think based on what y'all have said in the thread, I'll probably check out Memories of Murder or Mother next anyway

This was so much fun. I was cracking up.

Saw Memories of Murder tonight - excellent, possibly as good as Zodiac. Coincidentally, I was looking up the real-life cases after watching the movie, and it turns out the police finally solved them in the past few months!

Thinking about going to Atlanta in early December, hope it's still showing somewhere then.

This is the only thread in ilx history where I agree with Ulysses more than Brad Nelson

Good but found the second half idk ... somewhat arbitrary in parts despite its obvious straightforwardness ... not sure it delivered on the perfection of the initial premise. It wants to be get out but it’s more like black panther

But really it's like Us in some very obvious ways.