The significance of the rain is to show how drastic the experiences of the 99% and 1%. You see for the rich family it just ruined a daytime event, but for the con family it ruined their entire terms for living.

@-butterfly-594

4 жыл бұрын

The rain also had an unintended meaning, according to the director, in that it always flows down in the film, another statement about how class mobility is a lie unless you count going down.

Note on the ending: At the NY film festival, the directors and main actors spoke after the movie and Bong shared that he actually wrote the song in the background when the son was in the basement, and titled it something like "564 years", because he did the math and that's how long the son would take to save up enough to buy the place.

@gupoll

4 жыл бұрын

Ari N I mean, we all knew that he wouldn’t get the house since he made a plan and the best plan is no plan at all

@jewerly3843

4 жыл бұрын

I didn't catch that part.

@aadityabhattacharya

4 жыл бұрын

That makes it even more devastating

@Ch50304

4 жыл бұрын

That is depressing, maybe e will get lucky and marry into money.

@atmark666

4 жыл бұрын

The Host (2006) was a fantastic korean movie. kzread.info/dash/bejne/Y3yGtttrZtaamNo.html everyone should watch it. especially if you are an american.

The whole point of the ending is that he can never ever ever afford that house.

@CosmicStargoat

4 жыл бұрын

I agree. That scene was just a fantasy.

@KhoiNguyen-fq3wu

4 жыл бұрын

which makes it even more heartbreaking and tragic the fact that he knows where his dad is but can never reach him

@CosmicStargoat

4 жыл бұрын

@@KhoiNguyen-fq3wu It is just amazing that this movie could be so hilarious and tight, yet so totally devastating. Perfect.

@mikmal5786

4 жыл бұрын

Also he probably will never change and stay there

@huntrrams

4 жыл бұрын

That was the most saddest part in the film

As I'm an ordinary Korean, it's so sad movie because the son will never get the wealth he wants. In the current Korean society, it's just simply impossible.

@iaintyourgganbu4715

4 жыл бұрын

It's impossible in most modern day societies.

@captainobvious6779

4 жыл бұрын

KANYEda WESTaro a society.

@andreblackaller3560

4 жыл бұрын

It’s possible, some people do it, we just need to educate ourselves financially and make the right decisions (career, Investments, Frugality) we can do it!

@WorldwideJamal

4 жыл бұрын

Anything is possible.

@user-sj6zu9dv5b

4 жыл бұрын

not only korean

I couldn’t tell you why but that image of the little boy seeing the “ghost” was SO SCARY

@izzahkamran2848

4 жыл бұрын

Kcidymccus I KNOW RIGHT. Absolutely terrifying!

@RestiAyuAnantika

4 жыл бұрын

Yea!!! Omg that was unexpected. All of his paintings were about that ghost.

@Drpepper842

4 жыл бұрын

Honestly, I moved in my seat , I was like hold up wait 😳

@nkirukaj2384

4 жыл бұрын

Horrifying, I actually couldn’t sleep that night cuz of it

@mancerrss

4 жыл бұрын

HAHAHAHAHA ME TOO

I genuinely felt my heart break in two when it cut to that last shot of the son in the basement. Knowing that him, his mother, and his father will forever remain in their same positions felt like such a realistic slap to the face. No shame in admitting I cried. This movie was just such delicious, hilarious, depressing, cinema art.

@CaatsGoMoooo

4 жыл бұрын

I'm also glad I'm familiar with Korean culture, as I think that's a pretty huge aspect of the film as well

I loved how Bong Joon Ho took everything you laughed at in the beginning of the movie and make you cry towards those same things at the end. All his intentions hit

What makes Parasite so clever is the fact that Bong constantly plays with the audience's expectation throughout. He always go reveals info then pulls back, then revealing more and then pulls back until the ultimate gut punch.

Maybe I can tell you the details only Koreans or people who live in S.Korea can understand. Spoiler Alarm! - The noodle (Translated as Ra-dong) is actually Jja-Pa-Gu-Li, mixing of two different cheep instant noodles(it was popular trend in Korea). And then Park's wife tells her to add Korean Beef, which is quite expensive beef, as a topping for sake of her daughter's health. It refer the situation of three families. Two poor family as instant noodles and expensive beef as Park's family. So first time she allows housekeeper to eat it when her daughter rejected to eat. But then when she saw that expensive beef is actually in it, she reverse that she gonna eat it. - Kim's family is poor because it seems like father (Song Kang-ho) was failed his business. And the man who lived in basement was mention he also failed his business. It seem they were running same brand business, 'Dae-Wang castela' (aka Big castela store). In Korea, many job is not guarantee for long-term, so when many people quit their job, they eventually open their own small business for living, like small restaurant or fried chicken house whatever their career was. Dae-Wang castela brand was also one of huge trend store in Korea, but few years ago the brand was hugely failed because of one broadcast spread out unconfirmed fact. It refers that both poor family failed not because of their own fault. They are poor just because they were out of luck. And there are so many people as Kim who failed their own business in Korea.

@sidmichael1158

4 жыл бұрын

Link?

@asiacheetah1010

4 жыл бұрын

@@hmmmmmmh2997 my english caption said Taiwan castella. However, castella is more of a Japanese or Spanish dessert so Dae-Wang castella sounds more likely since OP is talking about a business name.

@mylingnovels8000

4 жыл бұрын

@@hmmmmmmh2997 King castella which was based on the Taiwanese castella was a huge hit where people had to line up to buy it but a tv show went undercover and discover some bakeries were using oil and chemicals to cut cost .So people stop buying it and it hurt all the bakeries who didn't use oil . A lot of people went bankrupt in S korea.

@felicidado.h.7727

4 жыл бұрын

Castela is not a Spanish Dessert. Not at all. 100% sure . I am Spaniard.

@mylingnovels8000

4 жыл бұрын

@@felicidado.h.7727 Castella is a kind of Wagashi originally developed in Japan based on the "Nanban confectionery" transmitted from Portugal. That why people get confused.

Fan fact: the rich guy explain that the old maid eat two meals. Because the meal will be given to the guys in the basemant

@nkirukaj2384

4 жыл бұрын

Annisa N ooohhhhhh I actually didn’t realize that

@pwallstanky4052

4 жыл бұрын

Annisa N Wow I was thinking that was merely a shitty fat joke the whole time...

@dragoonMSfan

4 жыл бұрын

How Did people not realize this, what are you doing while watching the film?

@nkirukaj2384

4 жыл бұрын

Ivan deriding people for not understanding or putting together the tiniest of details is like the worst kind of gatekeeping.

@dragoonMSfan

4 жыл бұрын

Nkiruka J those are not tiny details, both of those sentences were Said in the movie. Now If you were not following the movie when they Said it That’s your problem

That rock scene at the end still shakes me to this day. Whole theater gasped

@xannirey8156

4 жыл бұрын

the one where the guy in the basement threw the rock at the boy's head?

@why283

4 жыл бұрын

@@xannirey8156 yea

@Foxynaut888

4 жыл бұрын

It was poetic

@Wolfen443

4 жыл бұрын

That was shocking, but surprising not actually what else could the guy prisoner of the basement seeking revenge could have done.

@MichaelWutsch

4 жыл бұрын

I thought the kid's head was gonna get smashed

It’s interesting how the basement serves two meanings. The basement signifies the lower lower class but also that basement was made so that the super rich can be safe from a possible North Korea missile attack while the rest of the poor would suffer the consequences.

@cnashford2

4 жыл бұрын

Wow. I wouldn't have ever thought of that. 👏👏👏

The director said it himself, it's a fantasy. The ending shows the fantasy of the boy but in reality it would take him 564 years to afford it. Impossible.

I'm so glad you guys noticed the importance and symbolism of stairs....to me something else that struck me was this ever presence of lines...you can feel this line that must not be crossed between the rich characters and the people who work for them...and what makes it genius is that it's never told that the line exists but the settings, the camera work, the structure of the house everything is set in such a way that you can see it. Also another thing that hit me was just how perfectly this movie makes a commentary on society...it's never a fight btw the rich and the poor....the rich are just baiting the poor and the poor are fighting each other to get a taste of that bait.

24:50 what i got was that the smell became a symbol for their status in society. There is nothing that they can do about their smell, since they mention it comes from the house they live in. So basically they need to stop being poor. The rich family just has to put up with the smell, like they have to put up with the poor. When the rich father plugs his nose in the end the poor father is reminded of how the rich see him. He is seen the same the husband that lived underground, someone who he considers beneath him.

@jewerly3843

4 жыл бұрын

The movie was just so sad especially after laughing so hard, and after being on the pins and the needles in the middle.

The relationship between the father and the son was depicted so beautifully.The end really HITS YOU!

The actor Song Kang-ho, you guys mention 12:16, there is interesting story behind him with Bong Joon-Ho. (it's quite well-known story in S.Korea) Maybe you guys already know. When he(actor) was unpopular, he tried so many auditions yet really didn't get a chance. And usually director or anyone in charge didn't reply back to people who get rejection at that time. They just don't reply back and that was the answer of rejection. One day he tired one audition as usual, he was failed again. But this time it was different. One young assistant director replied him back with full of sorry, compliment of act, and detail reasons of why he was failed. And said "One day I'd love to work with you." Yes It was Bong Joon-ho. 5 years later, Song became popular actor, and accepted the failed director's second film. (Bong unfortunately failed his first movie.) And that was "Memories of Murder."

@nishes

4 жыл бұрын

Wow I love that! Also Memories of Murder was a great movie.

@nevaladder

4 жыл бұрын

Dang. Thank you for that. 😢

@tracypascual3628

4 жыл бұрын

초초CHOCHO what was his first movie?

@rebjorn504

4 жыл бұрын

@@tracypascual3628 I think its Barking Dogs Never Bite.

It's a shame... if you guys understood the Korean language, you would appreciate the movie much much much more. Some characters in the movie often use English casually with Korean... it sounds so funny and very... pretentious. That's the way some Koreans mix English out of nowhere because they want to look upper class. That's so sad. Well, I'm Korean. The name of the main lead is 송강호... Song Kang Ho. Song is his family name. His given name is Kang Ho prounounced as Ghahng Hoe... That's similar.

@youremytear5658

4 жыл бұрын

J Park am not korean but you can say im almost fluent. sure i dont know the random words or most of the words but yes i do agree that if you would know korean you would appreciate the movie way more

@tokitoki4780

4 жыл бұрын

The movie was so good that I forgot I was reading the subtitles xD

Who else is here because Parasite pretty much swept the filmmaker categories at the Oscars.

Ya'll, I just got home from watching Parasite and I'm SO glad you posted this video today. Completely agree, one of the main themes of this film is comfort. A telling scene is when their home is flooding and even while the toilet is spewing sewage, all the daughter wants to do is find some form of pleasure by smoking a cigarette. Even as their world falls apart, their main priority is to just have some form of comfort-- much like what the husband living underground says. Like other films touching on the subject of class disparity, there is the recurring theme of the lower class being referred to as garbage, sewage, or subhumans that need to be "cleaned up". Throughout the whole film we see this degradation happen-- particularly with the father-- which makes the ending that much stronger. Overall, I agree this is one of the best of the year. I honestly don't know how I'm supposed to sleep tonight.

One thing that made me chuckle was the raised hand thing when the housemaid and the crazy man held them hostage. That’s something you do to misbehaving children and my family and I were laughing so much.

@fincherbrandhan5833

4 жыл бұрын

Sammy Lee A similar sequence was there in The Housemaid as well

@astrangeone

4 жыл бұрын

That's why it made me chuckle! The former housekeeper was supposed to be prim and proper and the two were enjoying holding the Kim family hostage.

@sumguy116

4 жыл бұрын

The cell phone (transfer of information) was used like a gun, and the family had hands up as if a gun was pointed at them. In Snowpiercer, messages were hidden in bullets and the guns themselves were harmless.

parasite is cinema at its finest! its a comedy, thriller, satire, heist film all rolled into one. two thumbs up! way, way up!

when ki-taek/Mr. Kim is in the car diving Mr. Park home, Mr. Park describes how frustrated he gets when people cross the line and when he compliments the former housekeeper he said her only flaw was “she always ate enough for two.” 🤯

@YungFozz

4 жыл бұрын

That means she brings the other plate to the husband living in the basement below. 🤯🤯

In my opinion the smell to me denoted or symbolized that he saw basically viewed him as a second class citizen. Sure there was a calm civility to the Park Family but beneath it there was a disdain for the subordinates. The Kim's would never be their equals.

Been watching S. Korean cinema since early 2000s. And my general rule is, if a movie is released there, watch it. Even if you have to read subtitles. Because majority are just beyond excellent.

@michaellim4165

4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely, also, the original versions are always better. South Korean films, especially the indie ones are a breath of fresh air and just, simply, amazing.

@rythaguy1893

4 жыл бұрын

Some favorites/recommendations?

@user-vg5ol1nl9m

4 жыл бұрын

@@rythaguy1893 have you find out any good ones?

@siamcharm7904

4 жыл бұрын

@@user-vg5ol1nl9m poetry , secret sunshine, burning. all fabulous.

@juliakawaii

4 жыл бұрын

@@rythaguy1893 burning, the host, mother, the handmaiden, oldboy, train to busan, the outlaws, 1987, along with the gods (AMAZING MOVIE, THERES ALSO A SEQUEL), extreme job, swing kids, joint security area, shiri

Real version of mission imposible. Stones that cannot float on water cling to him like a parasite. Although he struggles to climb on the water, a stone called poverty drags him under water.

@rachreid8746

4 жыл бұрын

채수상 damn. 👌🏽

i don't know if parasite was on to something but real life people who live years in a basement do have a basement smell... like mothballs and not quite fresh clothing, almost stale and musty.. this is true and real writing and I love Bong's name. such a visionary.

@dallymoo7816

4 жыл бұрын

I live in a basement hehe.. but no smell so hmm.. New carpets though

I think the bunker couple really erode the main family's moral justification. They are lower then the protagonist family; really nice juxtaposition during the flood of the rich family, the poor family & the couple dying in the bunker. Just because you are the victim (of class) doesnt make you nice or right. Sure 'money makes you nice' was a potent quote but how nice are they to the family lower then them. The families demise comes either in 2 ways, depending how you interpret it : 1. They carelessly destroy the lives of the bunker couple & it comes back to end them. 2. The son's notions of honour & right (symbolized by the rock); the act of kindness- undoes the family. Without a doubt the father becomes the bunker man, living in self imposed imprisonment & isolation. The mother, who ultimately kills the bunker woman, is left to live with the consequences - dead daughter, no husband, brain damaged son (depending on who you view his recovery). I think the son returning the rock to the river was him making peace with his status. I feel that the wealth (real or fantasized) he gains in the end is earned fairly not stolen/I'll gained.

@suak.5703

4 жыл бұрын

I agree but I also disagree. I think being nice because you are rich is in fact true because you have the luxury, and time to do so. I dont mean monetary but mentally as well. The reason why both of the poor families acted like that is because they were both desperate. Desperate to survive. I think Kim family did feel sympathy and companionship? from the bunker couple. That's why the Kim mother opened the door and that's why Kim dad killed Parks dad. They know what it feels like to be in their shoes and they understand and they empathise with them. Even the daughter and mother and father tried to make up with them after the fight (though they didnt know they accidentally killed them)

@plasticflower

4 жыл бұрын

You could also argue that if they had ignored the previous housekeeper entirely when she rang the doorbell that night, the whole charade would have gone on like it did. If the mother had just ignored the previous housekeeper, the husband in the basement might have starved or died from dehydration, but the Kim family could have continued their act. It's only because she was soft and empathic that the whole thing went bad for them.

@robertluong3024

4 жыл бұрын

I don't think there's any real moral justification for anyone in this movie. That's why I like it. They're human. Terrible and flawed. The juxtaposition of these two families fighting is beautiful because it's the lower class that will fight with each other instead of working with each other.

'Parasite' is unpleasant and offending, but a masterpiece. This movie is not for all people; especially for persons who will expect something like made-in-HollyWood. This disturbing movie really shows our capitalism-ic world in uniquely offending ways.

I don't like people who can't appreciate a good movie just because they're in a different language aka Korean, Japanese, Indian films and etc.

Great movie. Great review and discussion!

@JoeGunawanfotosiamo

4 жыл бұрын

Oh dude! You watched it, too! My favorite film of the last several years. This is a great review/discussion, for sure

This movie blew me away just amazing. Definitely a masterpiece felt like a rollercoaster throughout with all the tonal shifts and insane events just amazing. It really blew away my already high expectations. So glad my theater in La got it this weekend my packed crowd was going crazy

@CosmicStargoat

4 жыл бұрын

I agree with every word. A perfect movie.

@bautistajosef

4 жыл бұрын

Right!! Have you watched Handmaiden? He's also the director.

@CosmicStargoat

4 жыл бұрын

@@bautistajosef I will definitely watch it

@shyvalenzona

4 жыл бұрын

no. Director of Handmaiden is Park Chan Wook

@colinconsidine5209

4 жыл бұрын

Just saw it at the Los Feliz 3. Amazing

The son will never be able to afford that house. It would make more sense for him to save up enough money to buy some forged identification for his dad and smuggle him out of the country. His father isn't actually trapped in the house, he could leave it.

The meaning of parasite(Both the rich and the poor are parasites!!) - There are two meanings 1) infiltrate : the poor(Gitak's family and the basement family) infiltrate their money and place. And also the rich(Park's family) also infiltrate the poor and suck up their labors. 2) aversion(abhorrence): We generally abhor the parasite. If the rich and the poor don't respect each other, there are possibility for them to abhor each other because of various reasons. The limitation of Capitalism is that the gap between the rich and the poor is widening. The poor's deprivation and the rich's ignorance toward the poor can come into "conflict". It means that the rich regard the poor as parasites and vice versa. These days, One's effort can not lessen the gap between the rich and the poor. But it is possible the rich to harmonize with the poor and vice versa. If the rich only think that there is a invisible line, the conflict can not be solved. is it possible the rich and the poor become real friends at each other? How about trying to understand each other, and how about giving consideration and respect toward each other? Then our world - The world of capitalism - can coexist between the two, and we try not to make a world where the rich and the poor abhor each other. In other words, Don't regard each other as a Parasite!! It only accelerates the demerit of Capitalism. This is why the title of this film is parasite.

This is easily the best movie I've seen in the last 4 years. I honestly think people who have a hard time getting into foreign movies will love this. I really don't see how this can't appeal to anybody.

I don’t know how you can watch the film, and think the ending implies that he actually will ever be able to buy the home. At the end of writing the letter he even realizes he has no way of even communicating the letter back to his father much less make the money to buy the house.

@dioz8768

4 жыл бұрын

Alchemist1330 yeah him interpreting that way made me feel like his point of view is so optimistic he can’t help but see something so drastically different from what the director tried to hard to show. The director himself said he wanted the ending to feel like being shot.

@franks8462

4 жыл бұрын

I'm not claiming to know his background, but I can say from first hand experience that being a child of a lower middle class (almost poor) latino immigrant parent, accepting that their struggle will never pay off is a very bleak outlook on life. This is one of those films that even though crazy things happen, it's still grounded in the real. The message is very real. So if I were to accept that message, I'm would mean we accept that there's no way we can move up from my current state in real life... Also, the fact that Art outright is telling us that he refuses to see the letter montage as a fantasy, says a lot. Opinions such as these can come from a very personal place. Anyways, I'm not trying to put words in his mouth, but this is how I can rationalize his opinion. Feel free to correct me.

@Alchemist1330

4 жыл бұрын

@@franks8462 I ABSOLUTELY Understand what you are articulating. My parents are Honduran immigrants, and there is a constant Idea that you can go and achieve anything. Because if that is not the case you have to accept some very harsh realities about the world. And, yes for the protagonist to be able to live a comfortable middle class life is certianly possible and he doesn't have to live in poverty forever. But the dream of becoming a 50 plus millionarie to afford to buy that house when he is still in his 20s or early 30s, I think is VERY purposefully used to show the riddiculousness of the rags to riches dream, and I'm suprised that LME didn't read the film in that way. However, I also suspected that his desire to read the film in that manner was because of his possible immigrant upbringing. In many ways LME thought process is identical to the protagonist of the film. (though again who knows for sure) But when I took my mother to watch the film she had the same reaction as LME. And i think that is ultimately what Bong is trying to do with the film show how the poor also perpetuate the class system in many ways, by believing that they can climb up it with relative ease. Not to sound like a pedantic bitch, but I feel as though LME and my mother are both in this classist "sunken place".

Memories of Murder is still my fav Bong Joon Ho film(well its also my fav film period). But this film was amazing. definitely my second.

@skater0224

4 жыл бұрын

Shuri Zulu it’s your fav film of all time ? What some of your other top 3? Lol. That’s super high praise for MoM

@pmanzn

4 жыл бұрын

@@skater0224 My top 3 is probably 1. MoM 2. The Matrix and 3. The Assassination of Jesse James. yeah, weird, I know. Whats yours?

@skater0224

4 жыл бұрын

Shuri Zulu lol yeah very interesting taste. Not alot of people’s usual picks. For me number #1 will always be Empire Strikes Back as a default so I’m not gonna include it. So I’ll give you my next 5 favorite films of all time , 1. Blade Runner 2049 2. Spirited Away 3. Social Network 4. Pan’s Labrynth 5. Coraline I know , lots of dark fantasy in it lol besides Social Network

@mikmal5786

4 жыл бұрын

That movie too slow

@jewerly3843

4 жыл бұрын

The killer is also got caught about 2 months ago. WOW I bet he'll remake the movie.

I watched this movie at home last night for the first time and had to keep pausing the movie to read all the subtitles.. and I loved it! One of the best films I've seen in a long time. Very refreshing for a film buff who is tired of the repetitiveness in movies. I probably wouldn't have liked it in movie theatres because the subtitles move a little quickly. Great movie!

I feel like clothes is another important symbol in the movie. Clothes represent the persons wealth. In the beginning the poor family’s clothes are dirty and messy. This shows that the family is poor. While the rich family had nice clothes that are clean. Also the poor family begins to wear nicer professional clothes to fake their wealth. Also when the family is in the gym the people are fighting over clothes which represents the people in the same lower class fighting over money which are clothes.

As someone who has seen a lot of South Korean films, was anyone underwhelmed by this? It’s almost as is the West didn’t realise that foreign films exist and this is their very first experience.

@mrs.potatohead8471

4 жыл бұрын

Underwhelmed? I thought that this flim was phenomenal! 😱 What kind of movies do you watch to be underwhelmed by this one? I would love to watch them. 💛

This deep dive was phenomenal. You guys have great synergy and some very original takes. Solid job boys. Subbed 4 lyf.

Hands down best movie of the year

The Director himself said it would take the son 546 years to save up for that house

@RJzk2yg

4 жыл бұрын

Hopefully new owners airbnb the house, so he can rent it for the weekend haha

@EscargoTouChaud

4 жыл бұрын

I'm starting my saving today! I liked the window towards the backyard quite much.

"Buy me drugs"

@monet2779

4 жыл бұрын

Do it clockwise

Okay this review of the film makes me respect and enjoy this film even more so. You've guys got a new sub here and I look forward to the recommendations of movies you guys made. Definitely gonna watch all of them.

Finally going to watch it tomorrow! I am so hyped after countless videos and critiques!

@NoLieIm51

4 жыл бұрын

Beautiful smile

Who noticed the little boy Da- Song throwing arrows at Ki-woo just after his English lesson and right in the middle of being introduced to the housekeeper. I interpret this as the little boy seeing Ki - woo as the invader, someone who is trying to enter his home, his class status; just like how the native Americans fought against the colonisers in order to preserve their territory.

@gilgarcia2403

4 жыл бұрын

How about da-hye? Being inlove ki-woo and make kissing scene

Parasite is an apt title. It won the Palme d’Or and then took all top 4 awards at the 92nd Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screen Play, and Best International Feature Film.

The Kim family complain that their apartment is infested with stink bugs. The Park family complains that the Kim family all have an unpleasant smell.

Love your commentary. You guys bring a light on how films can change your perspective and give new insights to how we see our ever changing world.

I'm soooooo impressed with you guys! I now have a "must see" list of movies to watch as a result of watching just this video :-) I LOVED Snowpiercer and Okja. I don't know anyone who has watched either of these movies, and am now definitely going to get my grandchildren to watch them, and you guys!!!!! thanks for your INTELLIGENT insights.

Beautiful analysis and superb chemistry between the two hosts!

I'm from the future and lemme tell you, Parasite won Best International Film, Best Original Screenplay, Best Director and Best Picture in the Oscars! Y'alls Law of Attractioned their Oscar wins!

I enjoyed your discussion a lot. Thank you.

I see this pattern in many societies around the world. Rich families live in a big house with 3 or 4 people and servants and poor families with 8 or more people cram into a small 2 bedroom size home.. there is no social equity in wealth and health.. maybe it has always been this way in civilization for millenniums! Excellent film glad it got awarded and learned more about Korea in this film than I knew about the country ever

Parasite was a cinema changing film. You are dead on right about comparing it to others like Wizard Of Oz or The Godfather, this brings international films to american audiences and really puts an eye on a more diverse set of film-makers. All of that on top of what it does to elevate story-telling and conventional film making. It also comes at a time, where the conversation of wealth in-equality is much over-due and needed. Brilliant film. Masterpiece. No other word to describe it.

As a Korean and aspiring movie director, I'm very proud of you, and thank you for reviewing the movie like this.

My favorite part was the use of a cell phone in place of a gun when the story goes sideways. It didn't lend itself heavily to the overall plot and themes, but, as someone who hates how most directors incorporate cell phones into their movies, I thought it was genius.

Being a middle-class Korean, I am like "Well, they are having fun"

Having relationship to daughter(rich family), that gives son 2nd plan (poor family) because of that old housemaid situation but not goes to the right plan

I remember watching Memories of Murder years ago, early in the movie I was ready to stop watching as the premise was pretty ordinary, but at the same time, I couldnt stop watching as the characters were so darn interesting in their actions. By the end I was floored and convinced the director is gonna have a great career.

@skater0224

4 жыл бұрын

Bujang Lapuk better film Memories of Murder or Parasite? I loved Parasite

@bujanglapuk2108

4 жыл бұрын

@@skater0224 I liked Parasite a lot, I think of it a very sharply executed movie. You can tell it was made by a very accomplished film maker. In the sense that if you show Memories and Parasite to someone who hasnt seen Bong's films, he or she would be able to tell that the director made Memories first. In Parasite, I really feel that every scene serves a purpose.

@nishes

4 жыл бұрын

I had the SAME feeling! The premise is ordinary especially considering the hwaseong serial murders is a topic we see used over and over again in so many kmovies and kdramas, but I remember that movie stuck out to me the most.

@suak.5703

4 жыл бұрын

@@nishes yass especially the last scene

CLOCKWISE IS THE BEST!! R E S P E C T !!

@jewerly3843

4 жыл бұрын

LOL.

How you can believe for even one moment that Kevin's plan to save up enough money to buy that house will come true is beyond me. It's an example of the delusion he's been living under the whole movie - that their luck can turn and he can make it to the top somehow. Even just the challenge of saving up enough money to afford a good college education to get a high paying job will put a stop to that plan. He'll be lucky if he can make enough money to have food and a roof over his head.

Koreans are divided bc the different opinions on social system, capitalism and communism. Although N.korea turned into dictatorship but their beginning goal was socially equal country. Ideally it was good idea back in time. I think still we need socialism not N.korean style but Northen European style.

well done. first time listening u guys have great chemistry

I saw Parasite today; I think it's a masterpiece.

Thank you for this video. I need discussion on this movie

I just watched it and the smell is so focal cause the kid smells them first and actively unifies and identifies them as smelling the same and being one and idk for me it was interesting but that's it. After the scene where the rich parents complain about the dad's smell it becomes so much more relevant cause they go back home and we know that the street is full of sewer water at the poor families house because the dad says so but then that creates that sense in the viewer and to top it off Kevin's sister smokes her cigarette on top of the spewing toilet and its almost like she's either used to it or she accepts it. Obviously the next day the rich mom opens the window in the car when Kevin's dad is driving her and that makes him even more conscious but most importantly I think that Kevin's dad killed the rich dad because of the flinch the dad made when moving the body and how it was almost representative of the shame, trauma, mockery etc. that he had been facing throughout.

This was just... Just.. I can't breathe it was so shocking and beautiful and incredible.

I can’t agree more. The film got released months ago in S korea but I live in NY...😂 I waited so long and am sooo happy I watched it last night!!!! Master Bong never disappointed me!

how did this man say best of the decade but then go 'oooooo' when he said best of the year XD

Hands down movie of the year. What a rollercoaster of a film.

Just finished watching this masterpiece, I am floored, there is only so much I can say in a KZread comment. WTF.

Cypress Hill predicted this movie with thier 1993 song "Hits from the Bong"

Why I didn’t know about this channel LME - LUE 🙌🏾

100% my favourite movie of all time so far

Masterpiece

Check out The Take video on the stairway and analysis of Parasite. It's brilliant.

Saw the movie on your recommendation after watching your LME

The cartoon has a real face, DOESNT FEEL RIGHT

Really impressed with your knowledge of Korean movies. Especially the guy on the right. You have to watch Kingdom on Netflix. It’s a great Korean series if you like thrillers and horror. The Korean movie that made me watch was Siri(1996) I think. Korean movies have come a long way. Great vlog & insight.

@nishes

4 жыл бұрын

Oh I LOVE Kingdom, I would definitely recommend that one as well.

I watched this movie that had terrible subtitles ( where it felt like it was translated word for word from a dictionary) and still understood the depth of the film. Still plan to watch a better subtitled version but what a movie

What happened to the shorter videos on let me explain??

Can somebody please explain the surveillance camera thing at the end. News reporter said they didnt have anything about poor dads escape, but later they showed camera pointed in his direction. Also why was the garage door half open?

@UnDefinedLegacy

4 жыл бұрын

So the house keeper clipped the cable to camera. The car door was open because the people wanted to drive away.

@van0202

4 жыл бұрын

@@UnDefinedLegacy thanks for answering! One more thing, how did the kid survive after getting hit in the head with a rock? I mean, the rock looked pretty heavy and would definitely kill at point blank range

@jehenisus

4 жыл бұрын

van0202 well.. it did take a month before he woke up from coma. I guess he was real lucky

@RJzk2yg

4 жыл бұрын

@@van0202 The rock was hollow inside, it floated in water. but heavy enough to do some damage

ok if i missed it my bad but what did the rich husband tell the wife? He whispered something in her ear but not subtitles came up

@liljunco95

4 жыл бұрын

I believe he was insinuating that he was drugging the girls, as that would explain why a girl would forget her panties.

I do have questions about this movie though. Not sure if anyone would want to talk about it here in the comments? That would be cool if so.

I generally watch shows/movies with subtitles to pick up on the score and stuff like that but this was the first foreign language film I've ever watched and I was interested to see if it'd be an issue. I definitely noticed it a lot at first but after like 20 minutes I was basically fully emersed and didn't notice them at all.

Can someobody please tell me what the rock symbolized? Like why did the son go back to the basement with it? To kill them? If not, why didnt he just bring them food or sg. Im confused. Help me out

@phimthao2026

4 жыл бұрын

Sorry, maybe, it's a late reply but I heard other people say, it represents false hope

@skylarnguyen3088

4 жыл бұрын

Hey this is really late answer. But I think the rock symbolizes moving upwards in society because of its origin. The son probly felt like it captures his family's situation, so it symbolizes hope. He might have wanted to give that hope to the family in the bunker, like saying 'Things are gonna get better, you'll be ok.' But of course he didn't know that the wife was accidentally killed by his mom.

@fromthehaven94

4 жыл бұрын

It was given to the son by the friend who offered the tutoring job.

Definitely great, probably best of the year, but I think my top of the decade are gonna stay Birdman, Django & Argo

you got a see Memories of Murder.,,, Jodiac's original verison.

@blinksstayfresh2524

4 жыл бұрын

Zodiac, right?

@shreyamathur824

4 жыл бұрын

Zodiac is not a copy of Memories of murder, they just have similar themes. Both movies are based on the real instances that happened in their respective countries.

Korean movies are awesome! That's all I watch when I go on a plane. SK way to tell stories is just unique

What an amazing film!

I want to see this movie again!!! Best movie 🎥

I’m getting Diego Luna vibes from Arturo and I’m here for it.

I like the title because it sounds like a movie the gang in Seinfeld would try to see.

Bong said that the kid would have to work for +400 years to be able to afford that house

in a world where we watch TV and movies at the same time as looking at our phones. Constantly reading tweets and text messages ,WhatsApp messages, Facebook messages etc the argument that we can't watch subtitled movies because we have to read is now invalid.

AND IT WON BEST PICTURE

3:34 YAY I got quoted

The smell of the body the rich father couldn't stand was of his own basement. The smell was of the lower class, not of body odor