1. Yonsei University, the university where Ki Woo falsified the information, is the alma mater of director Bong Joon-ho. He is an 88-level sociology student at the school.
Yonsei University, Korea University, and Seoul University mentioned by Ki Woo’s father are recognized as the three most prestigious super-first-class universities in South Korea. Only students with the top 1% of the college entrance examination scores have the opportunity to be admitted. In recent years, there have been more unemployed youths in South Korea. In millions (the total population of South Korea is 51.640 million as of 2018), a family like Ki Woo can only find a chance to change his class if he is admitted to this top school, so this is also the four times he has taken the college entrance examination. The reason for no success (the goal was set too high).
2. Mrs. Park secretly drew out a few coins when wrapping Ji Woo's salary in an envelope, but falsely claimed that Ji Woo's salary was much higher than Min Hyuk's.
The innocent wife in Min Hyuk's eyes actually hides a little bit.
3. Stone
When Min Hyuk sent the stone, he said that his home was filled with all kinds of strange stones. It was this one that could bring wealth and good luck the most, but his real intention was:
This stone is a fake rare and precious stone. (There is a picture in the film. Ji Woo is in a flooded home, watching the sinking stone slowly surface. This may be Ji Woo’s head being slammed into the stone. But it's not dead or stupid), but just bought it from a place like a street stall and made up a reason to deceive Ji Woo, let him take his place as a tuition teacher and watch Dahui.
As for why he was chosen? Because Duohui would never look at poor people like him.
Ki Woo said that this stone has been "sticking" to him, which is a symbolic technique. This stone, as Min Hyuk said, represents "luck" in the movie. Min Hyuk brought this stone to invite him to be The teacher of the rich will have everything that follows, but luck often carries corresponding risks. Just like a strange stone, static can be used as a landscape to appreciate, and movement can be a weapon of murder.
Ji Woo’s family seized the fortune of "Stone", but their desires inflated. When their son became a teacher, he wanted his daughter to be a teacher. Then he intensified and deceived the rich and fired the driver and servant, replacing it with his father and mother. , Sa Huan in the mansion where the rich left. Eventually, this series of insane flaws led to the occurrence of tragedies, exposing that the "stone", which was a fake stone, was taken by Jiyu to the rich man's house and became a weapon of murder, and the wealth was also fortune. It completely turned into a bad omen.
PS: I would like to add a strange stone again, saying that it is a fake rare rare stone. It does not mean that its raw material is not stone. It may be artificial stones made of bluestone, stalagmites, lake rocks, yellowstone, and reinforced concrete cement in the rockery (it may also be like It's a natural stone like pumice rock, which has a porous interior and a lighter material, but it feels less likely.) It's not small, and the interior is mostly hollow, but it still has a certain weight. Ki-woo once held the stone with one hand in the back , This is not as heavy as imagined.
When Ji Woo puts the stone back into the mountain creek, but the stone does not float, contrary to the previous floating scene, pay attention to what is the picture in front of this scene?
It was Ji Woo who was sleeping on the sofa with his plan next to him.
Laying down the stone and rescuing his father are all things he fantasized about when he fell into a dream. (Lighting is also very similar)
But in reality, can he really let go? Can you really buy that mansion? it goes without saying.
4. The youngest son
Dahui, the eldest daughter of a rich family, once said that the artistic cells of his younger son Dasong are all his personal settings. In order to win the attention of his parents, he pretends to be a low-energy and artistic genius.
When the younger son in disguise meets the stronger and smarter Ji Ting, he will naturally appear in his original form and be governed to be submissive. Many details in the film actually show that the younger son is a little afraid of Ji Ting’s majesty, such as the first time it was finished. After class, I salute Ji Ting respectfully; I never play around during class, and ran out immediately when I heard my father came back.
It is naturally not difficult for Ji Ting to make things out of her youngest son to deal with the mistress.
Regarding why the younger son cracked the Morse code of the housekeeper’s husband and got the information, but did not tell the adults, there are two possibilities:
(1) He misunderstood the information, because he cracked it was not a help (help) but the difference of holp (Hong Kong cinema translation version, meaning wrong translation);
(2) As a precocious child who knows how to pretend to be in front of adults since he was a child, he doesn't care at all, just treats it as a game.
5. The hostess of the rich family chats that the only disadvantage of the housekeeper is to eat two people’s meals, and the first grade hell is because the housekeeper’s husband got up in the middle of the night to steal food, but the housekeeper lied to the protagonist’s family and said her husband All the food was bought with his own salary.
6. On rainy night, the wound on the face of the housekeeper was probably beaten by the debt collectors of her husband, because she mentioned that "it has been four years, those debt collectors are still looking for him", and she has only driven out of the mansion. It will be so clear just after being harassed.
PS: The housekeeper was injured when she first entered the door, not after pulling the cabinet in the basement.
And it wasn't caused by allergies. A closer look at the face of the housekeeper showed obvious injuries.
7. How loose the painting
Duo Song's self-portrait is actually a "ghost" that scared him in the middle of the night.
Because of this "ghost", Du Song always insisted on taking the tent to live outside on the night of his birthday, even if it rained heavily.
The new painting that Duosong drew in Kiting's class also predicted the massacre at the birthday party.
8. The eldest daughter of the rich family, Duohui, eats Ji Ting’s vinegar. Ji Woo said Ji Ting is a rose, and you are... I will write it down in the book later, it is probably the heroine Rose of "Titanic" .
It expresses the love of Ki Woo and Dahye, as unswervingly as Jack and Rose in the movie.
9. The eldest daughter of the rich family prefers the younger brother who has been injured by her parents, and lacks love. It is easy to fall in love with handsome guys of the same age who are actively approaching and caring like Ji Woo and Min Hyuk.
10. When the rich hostess and the male host had sex on the sofa, they mentioned drugs and cheap underwear because the host said that the sofa here is like the back parking space of his car. They are playing tricks of pretending to be the former driver and the drug-addicted girlfriend. .
11. Hammer throw runner-up
Because my mother was the runner-up in hammer throw and had the best physical fitness in Ji Woo's family, when her father pretended to hit her, she said, "If it were true, you would have died early." The nanny husband who finally went crazy and murdered also depended on her to solve it.
12. Class narrowness
In the film, there are two scenes of Ji-woo's family eating at a dining table by the window, and they both encounter a drunk who urinates.
The first time my mother suggested to post a tip prohibiting urination, my father refused. When the daughter told her to yell, he refused again. This is a very interesting scene, which shows the father’s forbearance character and the son is very forbearing. It was indifferent, until his son's wealthy friend Min Hyuk came to scold him, and he praised him as "very courageous, he is a college student." But in fact, scolding drunks to urinate anywhere has nothing to do with their academic qualifications, and they have more reasons to scold them as basement owners, but as the poor class, they are more fearful and humble in their hearts.
Therefore, when they enter the rich family as helpers, they mistakenly think that they succeeded in becoming "inherited". For the second time at the dinner table, their son will take the strange stone sent by Minhyuk to smash the drunkard. Their hearts are suddenly filled with superior pride, the more they lack. What is more ostentatious, but in fact there is no difference between them twice, just tasted a little bit of sweetness at first, and they are still poor class.
The most terrifying thing is the insurmountable narrowness in spirit. When there is no money, the whole family is waiting for work at home, and finally does some odd jobs to earn a little money, and then starts drinking and celebrating. Drunken people come to pee and dare not scold or post a ban on peeing. The tips for being rich, don’t plan to improve the environment, move out of the cramped, foul-smelling basement, just eat and drink everywhere, quite satisfied with the “parasite” life of the rich instead of developing oneself.
The poverty of the spirit makes them play the role of scraps. In the mansion, they are the "parasites" of the rich, and outside, they are the "parasites" of the society.
13. Jiyu's father and her husband, the housekeeper, both mentioned that they had failed to invest in the "Taiwan Ancient Cake".
This cake was a smash hit in Korea in 2016. Hundreds of stores were opened in just eight months. However, many stores quickly closed due to the scandal of adding chemicals.
The Ji Woo family and the housekeeper’s husband did not prefer to live as "parasites" from the beginning.
On the premise that they were also struggling, the failure of investment in "Taiwan Old Cakes" (Jiyu's father also mentioned that he had been a fried chicken shop and driver) has caused the housekeeper and the couple to hide their debts for many years, and also made Jiyu's family thoroughly. The self-confidence of self-motivated has been obliterated, and he is willing to pass the day in a daze, and is willing to be content with the mediocre status quo.
14. The driver asked the president whether he loves his wife or not
In the eyes of the president, this kind of personal issue is an act of transgression and is disgusting.
Any employee who has just arrived to ask you about the relationship between husband and wife will definitely feel unhappy, not to mention that the person being asked is the employer.
But the driver didn’t think so much. The first time I asked was in the car, the president complained that after the housekeeper was gone, his wife could not sweep the floor and could not cook. At this time, the driver inserted "but still love Isn't she right?" The careless driver thought it was just chatting between friends, but the president was shocked, but didn't say anything, because he knew this was just an unintentional cross-border behavior.
The second time the driver asked, he was clearly provoking the president, because at this time he had been squeezed into a state of being on the verge of collapse by all the incidents, and the unaware president asked him to play the Indian role. People, play this kind of trick that only rich people can play, so the driver mentioned personal problems again, and his face became ugly. He immediately warned the driver with "Think of this as an extension of work" and don't mix it up. Personal emotions, otherwise you will get out.
This skirmish took place dozens of minutes before the birthday massacre, which obviously made the atmosphere between the poor and the rich more tense.
15. Kitting's death
At the birthday party, Ji Ting's stabbing was not only limited to superficial death, but also meant the disappearance of the opportunity for the poor Jin family to rise.
From the beginning to the end, Ji Ting was the most promising person in the Jin family to rise to the rich class. She is beautiful, generous, smart, decisive, and vigorous. In the film, there is not even any weakness revealed. Her son Ji Woo also said, "You are very much like this mansion. Take it, how do you look like us", but such a young man with an infinite future died like this...
Young death is always more sad. Her death is like a blow to the heart, completely cutting off the possibility of Jin Jiafuyu (rescuing his father).
16. Why did the driver kill the rich male owner?
Because first of all, the male host has been saying that the driver has an unpleasant smell. This smell is in a dual context here. One is a real dirty smell, and the other refers to the driver’s poor smell, a kind of class discrimination. The meaning of smell is still more biased towards the second one.
The host’s treatment of the driver is essentially full of the arrogance of the wealthy, saying that it’s not a test ride, but he has been holding a half-full coffee cup in his hand, observing the unevenness of the water, typical exquisite egoism, and speaking very well on the surface , But as soon as it hits the bottom line, it will start a strong counterattack.
Because the male host usually takes the subway (mentioned in the chat) occasionally to meet the poor, or is it possible that he was a poor in the past? (Conspiracy theory), until after a successful counterattack, he in turn despised the poor. He saw the driver exposing his swearing disapproval, and often swearing when he got along with his wife in private, and the hostess, as a consistently rich class, The ivory tower is well protected (the character is unusually kind and easy to trust others, Ji Woo's mother said that if she has money, she can be kinder than her), so when the host asked her, she didn't smell it.
PS: The main reason why the hostess smelled it on the birthday flashing day was that the driver slept in the gym last night and there was a real smell on her body, but from the perspective of the driver, the hostess seemed to have listened to the words of the host last night , I also became disgusted with the poor, and could smell his "smell of poverty."
Secondly, the driver feels envious of the wealthy life of President Park’s family, and has a trace of resentment, especially after the driver has specifically learned about their lives, he is frequently stimulated by the noble feeling between the lines of the male host’s words, but the real contradiction The breaking point is:
The nanny husband escaped from the air-raid shelter and stabbed his own daughter.
In desperation, all previous sorrows turned into impulsive blood blades. Although the male host’s behavior is human, there is actually nothing too outrageous from a macro point of view, but he just wants to kill him, only That's it.
As Twenty-one of Douyou said:
"The beauty of this movie is that what the president's family does is actually very reasonable, but from the perspective of a poor person, it becomes tasteless."
Congratulations to "Parasite" for winning the Oscar for Best Picture, Best Director, Best International Feature Film and Best Original Screenplay!
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