Parasite (new Bong Joon Ho movie)

Someone remind me — who wound up jabbing the skewer into that dudes leg? I lost it in the whole melee.

It was his side; that's why dude died. The mom did it.

I think it's too angry to work as a tragedy. That's why the violent conclusion worked for me. After a couple of hours of more or less black comedy, it suddenly descends into outright bloody rage.

well yeah. I prefer black comedy, which also has plenty o' rage

tbc, it definitely left me unsettled, idk if I'd say I "enjoyed the ride." I was extremely tensed up when the credits rolled.

i was giggling p much the entire time

Before all the screenings at the Lincoln Center movieplex, they're showing a NYFF clip where the cast brought out peaches to give the audience before the Q&A.

I couldn't imagine watching this again, in part because of the last third.

On the other hand, I'm glad it's a hit, and people were laughing at my screening.

ppl are speculating on getting AA *nods*

also I didn't like Snowpiercer at all.

This is a great audience movie! And it's funny! Until it's not.

I felt like the weird guy who was laughing a lot more than the rest of the audience in my very full theater.

Finally saw it this morning. Aesthetically I do think it's on another level from Bong, and more original than Burning, tbh. The conversation with Min in that crooked street is amazing. The way everything is so neat and liny in the rich house, so fussy and illogical everywhere else. The clothes hanging in front of the little window. Thematically, it's just another variation on The Housemaid, the fifth one I've seen I think. So I never really doubted it was going to go as crazy as it always does, and I do think it's less graphic than im Sang-soo's version from 2010. I think it has a lot of other things on it's mind than capitalism, tbh, the differences between people are more post-feudal, post-colonial and post-educational policy fuck up.

I don’t know if I’m alone in thinking Mother is his masterpiece?

Mother and Memories of Murder remain my favorites

It's not that I dislike them, but I don't get all the hoopla either. Like Lee Chang-dong's Oasis, they are just basically fine arthouse cinema for me. For years, it was just Hong Sang-soo or fuck off. I like both Burning and Parasite, though.

Finding out the house was designed and built from scratch blew me away.

His films are so compassionate, it kills me.

I don't know anything about the Korean higher education system, but one of the themes I got from the movie was that the brother and sister were more than qualified for school, but just ... couldn't afford it? Couldn't get in? I wasn't clear. Is that just a setup to satirize the bourgeois rich mom, who can't tell a not formally educated pair of imposter tutors from the real thing? Or is it sticking it to the schools, who are just an extension of class and wealth entitlement? If you are impoverished in Korea, are there scholarships and the like to help you through school? Or can you be more than qualified but still be excluded by the higher education system?

I think Min mentions that Ki-woo has taken the exam a couple of times after his military service: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_Scholastic_Ability_Test. I think the problem is that they can't get into the universities where it would make any sense to go, as Ki-taek says, there's 500 graduates ready to take any security guard job that comes up. And note that Ki-jeong wants to study arts (like the protagonist in Burning, who came from a farmer background but studied literature). The thing is, I'm really not sure how working class they are supposed to be, the mom is an accomplished athlete, the dad a somewhat good driver.

The feeling I get is just that South Korea is still a very new society - colonized until 1945 at the least, probably more accurately to say sometime after the Korean war, then governed by military dictatorship until 1992 - and films like Burning and Parasite show the rules of the society is still kinda up in the air. The idea that you'd do what your dad did, and stay in the same class as him, doesn't really apply. It's stratifying right now, as the first post-dictatorship generation is growing up.

the dubious distinctions btwn ppl based on the presence or absence of a formal education translates pretty universally (as we've seen by the movie's reception)

I honestly disagree completely, lol. I really think people are misreading it.

they're folding-up-pizza-boxes wifi-stealing class!

I don’t know if I’m alone in thinking Mother is his masterpiece?

It's hard for me to decide between Parasite, Memories of Murder, and Mother (which I just watched). All three are masterpieces to me. Can't believe I've missing out on Bong Joon-Ho all this time. I think the consensus is less strong on his other movies but I'll see The Host next

i live in South Korea and find this analysis iffy

pretty cool imo!

Barring a total anomaly, PARASITE will end 2019 with the highest US per screen average of the year: $131,072, the 6th highest of all time for a live-action film. #Parasite pic.twitter.com/JWSUPqR66i

— Erik Anderson (@awards_watch) December 22, 2019

wow

watched this for the second time the other day, still slightly in awe of it tbh

Fred B in botched class analysis shocker

This French poster of PARASITE is something else. pic.twitter.com/WJ8QF8SOJI

— ㅤnαkul.ㅤ (@itsNaCool) January 6, 2020

that poster is rad. is it for sale anywhere?

Someone in the twitter thread links to a shop that is supposed to have it soon -- the website is new and says it will be selling stuff as of next week

def a better film with the same class vibe

Parasite (2019): I'm overdue a rewatch of La Cérémonie (1995)!

— 𝕮𝖔𝖒𝖊 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝕲𝖊𝖙 𝕸𝖊, 𝕮𝖔𝖕𝖕𝖊𝖗𝖘 (@NickPinkerton) January 7, 2020

Sooner than I expected.

Per THF: Adam McKay (Anchorman, The Big Short, Vice etc) working with Bong Joon-ho on a Parasite miniseries for HBO.

The sequel for Parasite has a new trailer out.

Adam McKay is a menace.

Hard disagree!

sorry let me rephrase, Important Issues-Driven Filmmaker Adam McKay is a menace. Silly Comedy Director Adam McKay was fine.

Caring about shit is so weak.

caring is cool! Vice is however one of the worst movies of the last decade

I missed that one. I liked The Big Short, though!

The thought of watching a movie about Dick Cheney makes me nauseous.

the thought of a Parasite mini-series by anyone other than Bong does not fill me with hope

finally watched this movie and thought it was excellent

the way everything cohesively goes by the numbers as the art teacher, driver, and housekeeper are replaced is so tight. genuinely was surprised by the sub-basement twist

the difference between this plot and some of the "by the way, this movie is about CLASS" pictures I've seen in recent years is the muddied relationship between the Kim family and the former housekeeper and her husband that eventually culminates in the stabbing

very weird

PARASITE Black & White

"The film felt more realistic and sharp - as if I was being cut by a blade." Bong Joon Ho

New York
Walter Reade Theater, January 30
Francesca Beale Theater, January 31 - February 6

Los Angeles
Egyptian Theatre, January 31 https://t.co/HhRmyRrlJI

— NEON (@neonrated) January 23, 2020

He did a black-and-white version of MOTHER as well? Almost entirely black and white – there are maybe two minutes at the end that are in color.

had dinner last night with someone who told me they only saw one film last year and it was parasite but it was the best film they saw all year.

can’t argue with that logic tbh

I can't imagine watching this movie in black and white, I actually liked the color palette. I tried watching the "chrome" version of Fury Road some months back as well, and just couldn't get into it. Yet when Steven Soderberg converted Raiders of the Lost Ark into black and white, I thought that worked pretty well.

I don't really understand the purpose of these versions

Isn't the colour palette fairly important to this movie? The green of the lawn, the interiors like out of a glossy catalogue, the paintings.