Parasite (new Bong Joon Ho movie)

Sorry not in the last 50

The fact that his “Dear Leader” is none other than Dong-ik, paragon of South Korea’s neoliberal and neocolonial present, raises the question of which side of the DMZ is the true dystopia.

Um...

All due respect to the writer, but I really don't think Bong Joon-ho meant for the film to be read as pro North Korea propaganda

lol

Fucking hell @ a reading of this article on Parasite as North Korea propaganda.

lol

pvmic

"Bong has left the task of dreaming up to us. Division and war are not Korea’s destiny, and the path to reunification and peace will only become clearer the further we walk it."

Sounds like a love letter to Dear Leader to me

loooooool. did you just literally quote where you were in the article?

"Da-song, the Park’s rambunctious young son, first appears when he fires a plastic arrow at Ki-woo."

Sounds like propaganda to me

I think you need to read this another five times. Or maybe do a Google translate into Danish?

Hey, anything is better than wasting more time on you

Looool

this is a movie about the excellent grift that is personal tuition tbh

Someone told me they were talking about it with a client, who thought the house was lovely but it was a shame about all the violence. I suspect this would be a common view among the kind of people you don't really know.

please check your basement https://t.co/6X2rfkmv3p

— ponyo fishy in the sea (@niazahraaa) March 19, 2020

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Finally seen this (working my way through the ILX top 20 movies of 2019) and agree it is brilliant. Watched the first two thirds one night and it felt like two incredible stand-alone episodes, third part was also excellent, was never going to survive being watched separately, but it wasn't a let-down.
My extra thought was: this premise would not work in the UK, they would be found out as non-U immediately, which is kind of telling and a bit depressing. Also the rich mother reminded me of so many of my adult students in China.
My wife knows a lot about feng shui and she says the house seemed like it was constructed to have the worst feng shui possible, so interesting to find out it was made for the film.

I'd be interested in a critique of the Parasite house from a feng shui perspective. Mind, I know little and consider it mostly BS, but this would be a really good teaching example. No one seems to have done this (in English), all I've learned from Google is that the Pyeongchang neighborhood of the Park residence has overly powerful feng shui.

My attitude to feng shui is that it's technically bs, yes, but also that it works as a post-factual rationalisation of some solid underlying rules which make spaces feel better or worse to be in. As someone who usually dreams about buildings and spaces rather than people or images, I feel like feng shui generally makes places feel better for whatever reason. I am fascinated by films which use trick architecture - The Shining and Rosemary's Baby of course, but also some otherwise bad films like Dream Demon and various mediocre Agatha Christie adaptations.

Heading to Criterion with extra stuff, including a B&W version of the film

https://www.criterion.com/films/30619-parasite

still love this movie but this mini trend of "B&W versions" as supplements (see also Fury Road) is awful

unfortunately boring cover art as well

Agreed, especially considering just how many striking images there are in the film.

Only just finally caught up with the film, btw. Unsurprisingly for me, I thought it worked far better in terms of craftsmanship than message. I do think the final ten minutes (everything post-birthday party) could have been summed up in one or two poignant shots, but whatever--I'm glad this was the hit that it was and that Bong Joon-Ho can probably do whatever he wants to do next.

The cover art for their new Pierrot Le Fou is boring af as well.

The Fury Road was IIRC Miller working specifically to create something detailed rather than going "LOL run it through a filter" but who knows.

the b&w Fury Road was discussed in advance as Miller wanting to do a new cut that also removed as much dialogue as possible, but afaict from a cinema viewing, was just a conversion - but it's definitely a sensitive and careful conversion, not just "turning the colour down"

Fury Road is also a pretty explicit tribute to Buster Keaton and the visual language of the silent era. Parasite otoh has so many specific detailed lighting & color choices that carry so much thematic weight, the idea of intentionally taking that stuff out is almost perverse.

Don't forget Logan Noir in terms of B/W versions.

One Eye Open otm, it seems to work against so many of the the most gorgeous shots in the movie.

Incorporating morse code into the cover art is one of those "better in concept than execution" things, imo. Too subtle I guess.

This was about architecture, right

m/l

Kang-ho song's portrayal of various extremes of injured shame and hopeless optimism are what will stay with me, jesus he is a wonder

the flooding scene in this movie made me wanna die

― american bradass (BradNelson), Sunday, 10 November 2019 00:31 (one year ago) bookmarkflaglink

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As always, after reading through a movie thread after catching that movie, i have to question just how bad loads of ppl are at following movies, rly

No offence to anyone above who missed loads of stuff, like, x

i also watched this last night!

this was the last movie i saw in a theatre before pandemic :(

Mine was memories of murder!

this was the last movie i saw in a theatre before pandemic :(

omg same! I think? I did go to the ballet the day before lockdown

also same. had just seen uncut gems around the same time.

Invisible Man was mine. well, I did make it to Tenet in the theater (as it was a low period of transmission and it was limited seating), but I haven't been since.

considering going to the movies was a 2x/week hobby for me, it's incredibly sad to have lost that. I used to pick showings at times that would be less attended, and just enjoy the peaceful evening alone in the theater vibing to the movies while drinking comically large sodas.

uncut gems was my second to last

Parasite and The Lighthouse were my last 2, on my last trip to Atlanta, Dec 2019.

Our local film festival was right before the first UK lockdown and I saw lots Inc Parasite, Lighthouse and JoJo Rabbit but the last thing I actually saw on the big screen was Black Narcissus in a church.

We went to a few things at GFF last year as well and it's strange thinking back now. The last things I saw were Bacurau, which was utterly packed out in a hot cinema 2, and Children Of Men.

My last was Portrait of a Lady On Fire which, bizarrely, was mentioned in Coronation Street last night using both the French and English titles.

I've been making Jjapaguri (a combination of Chapagetti and Neoguri), consisting of two different types of ramen and flavored with black bean sauce and shrimp broth. It is not made into a soup but eaten with less liquid as a savory noodle dish.

It was featured in that scene where Jang Hye-jin as Chung Sook the replacement housekeeper/cook was frantically making up a dish to satisfy the lady owner who was coming home. She made it by adding big sauteed chunks of sirloin

Just watched this over the weekend with my 19 year old son, at his recommendation. The entire cast is a treasure.

After seeing this a little while ago, I watched Memories of Murder and the short film Influenza last week. They're all powerful and feats of impressive control; maybe he's yet to make (or I've yet to see) the film that really connects in a deeper way.