This movie is a movie that I can't find shortcomings in the movies that I have released in recent years. This is a terrible thing.
Even after I watched it, I couldn't describe it in words for a long time. After I got back to my senses, I gradually realized that this film can be mixed with so many types. The whole film is full of metaphors, satire and even spoof humor, as well as suspense and horror. Watching this movie is like watching the information of ten movies. This is the power of this film.
It is the latest work "Parasite" by South Korea's most storytelling director Bong Jun-ho . The film also won this year's Cannes Palme d'Or. This is the first time that a Korean film has won the highest honor at the Cannes Film Festival.
It is not an exaggeration to say that I think "Parasite" is another pinnacle of Bong Joon-ho after "Memories of Murder".
Who is Bong Joon-ho is no stranger to movie fans. In addition to "Memories of Murder", which everyone has named as a god, he also has popular "Jianghan Monster", "Mother", "Snow Country Train", and "Yuzi" "Wait.
Irony and anti-tradition are always hidden in Bong Junhao’s works. For example, in "Memories of Murder", around the murderer in the mist, you can’t distinguish between the good and the bad, because there is no absolute good and bad. In the whole story, all The character completely returned to humanity because of the murder of a female student.
Bong Junhao’s works have always adhered to the above-mentioned core views. Bong Junhao never chooses sides in front of the characters in his works, nor does he allow the audience to realize who has vested interests and who is victimized and exploited. , The values of all the characters in his works are complex and muddy, which also becomes more real and cruel.
"Parasite" is also a work with Feng Junhao's strong personal style, but this time the story and the angle of discussion are deeper and more metaphorical than his works in these years, and the plot is full of black humor and suspense. The composition also makes the film more pleasing, and thus it is loved by a wider audience.
——In-depth spoiler analysis line—— (I haven’t watched the movie, it is strongly recommended that Mark first and then come back after watching the movie)
At the beginning of the film, the perspective of the family living in the basement is to wipe the Wi-Fi of other homes even to surf the Internet. Mom and Dad are unemployed, and brothers and sisters are out of school.
The family uses pizza boxes, which are not as good as part-time jobs, to maintain a humble life.
"A coincidence", his older brother's senior gave him a chance to replace him to do extracurricular tutoring at the rich's house.
Relying on his younger sister's cleverness and PS skills, the older brother took a fake high-end diploma and successfully got the offer from the rich family.
The elder brother followed this line of wealthy relationship and pulled his younger sister into the game, and asked her to be an expert in art psychology who had returned from abroad.
Then the younger sister used her cleverness to get rid of the drivers of the rich family, and let her father take office successfully.
In the end, they used collective tactics to squeeze out the most difficult housekeepers from the rich family, and let their mother sit on the position of the rich family’s housekeeper. As a result, the family succeeded in parasitizing the rich family’s house, but "simple mind." The wealthy families of ignorance.
The director Feng Junhao uses black humor, but with a little bit of burglary tension, and shows us how this family uses strategies to erode this rich family step by step.
Every link is like a stack of time bombs. As long as there is one mistake, all will be lost. So in the process of watching the movie, the more we see behind, the bigger the stakes and the more exciting it is.
The film has developed to this point, and more than half of the time, ordinary commercial films will continue to focus on the main line of the plot, staying on the confrontation between the protagonist's family and the rich family, but this does not exist in Feng Junhao's work.
Finally, on a certain day, the rich family went out camping for the young master’s birthday. The big mansion in the family was completely turned into a house for a parasitic family. Mom and Dad slept on a comfortable sofa until they woke up naturally, while the older brother lay on the big lawn basking in the sun watching In the private diary of the eldest lady, the younger sister is taking a bath in their bathtub.
The family talked and laughed, vented and relieved in the rich man’s home. Suddenly, the former housekeeper came to visit and said that she came to pick up the objects left in the kitchen, only to discover that the house had a secret basement, and the former housekeeper’s husband was hidden inside. .
When my mother was about to use her cell phone to call the police, I didn’t expect that my father and the others showed their feet and turned an unexpected farce into reverse again. Do you think this is over? As a result, the family of the rich and powerful owners went back home due to the heavy rain. , So that the originally complicated things become unmanageable at first sight.
After a series of thrilling escapes comparable to thrillers, Dad and the others returned to their original basement home. Due to the flooding, their home had become a fish pond, and they were forced to go to a temporary shelter.
The next day, the rich family temporarily held a birthday party at home, and accidentally brought the protagonist’s family back together. My brother wanted to use his own way to get rid of the former housekeeper couple in the basement, but it attracted more attention. Unexpected killing.
From the perspective of the plot surface, this is already a very catchy script, but the reason that allows the film to enter the master level of the palace is the metaphor and irony expressed under the surface of the story.
Next, I will come up with some wonderful clips to explain, but only part of it, because every frame of this movie is full of details that I want to talk about. If you want to pull the "Parasite" well I can’t finish talking for a few hours.
The first point is the discussion of social class
Class is a symbol of many works of Feng Junhao. For example, in the early "Snow Country Train", wrapped in a sci-fi jacket, it uses stories about trains to interpret the dependence and opposition between classes.
The same is true of "Parasite". The first half of the paragraph used a very relaxed way to show us the absurd and bizarre parasitic story. It seems that the entire social formation is actually a kind of parasitic relationship in the film.
To be honest, in modern society, most of us office workers are not just working for business bosses to make money. In this process, the survival of the fittest, and even use some gray methods to achieve their own goals, that is What can't be more normal, what we do, think about it, is not much different from what a parasitic family does.
When Bong Junhao expressed these views, he has never been partial to any party, but used restrained and cold lenses to allow the audience to make their own value judgments.
From the perspective of a family living in a semi-basement, the audience seemed to have sympathy and favor for the family from the very beginning, and the object of the parasitism was the wicked capitalist wealthy family. Some of them attacked the landlord and divided the fields. The pleasure is in it.
But as the driver was replaced by his father and the former housekeeper was replaced by his mother, the style of painting is not as natural as when brothers and sisters entered the rich family at the beginning.
Especially when the former housekeeper was framed and left the mansion embarrassedly dragging the suitcase, our audience suddenly pulled out of the laughter. Oh, the family who used to be scheming has already begun to do harm to their own interests. People, and some innocent people, became victims.
Going deeper, do we, who laugh out loud as the audience, praise the scheming family?
In "Parasite", under the guidance of Bong Junhao, no one is a perfect angel, and no one is a full demon. When we were still sympathizing with the former housekeeper’s departure, Bong Junhao gave us another one. Depth bomb, it turns out that the former housekeeper hid her husband in the basement without telling the owner.
At this time, we, Yu Wen, who was more or less sympathetic, began to turn to the rich family. They seemed to be the most innocent people, but is this really the case? Obviously it is not that simple, especially the next day it rains. When the weather passed, the words of the hostess that it rained to make the air and the city cleaner, made the audience feel sympathetic to the rich and cut a lot.
The film keeps emphasizing that the rich family’s thinking is simple, so simple that it’s really easy to be deceived, but after another thought, we ordinary people have worked hard to find ways to climb to the top of the social pyramid like the president, but the president’s family, Simple thinking has everything we want, which has to make people envious and jealous. So how can there be so much sympathy for rich families?
Class, perhaps in Feng Junhao's eyes, see more gray areas between classes, as well as the dark side of human nature that breeds in this gray area.
The second point, metaphor and irony
In Feng Junhao's works, how could there be no metaphor and irony.
The film puts the class represented by each family and the place where they live are the best representatives. The people on the ground are bright and beautiful, the people on the ground are miserable, and there are even airtight secret rooms that hide the greater hidden dangers of this society. And upset.
As soon as the protagonist's family received the stone, his brother said that the stone was full of metaphors.
My brother mentioned metaphors many times in the film, which in itself carries a strong irony, because my brother himself is in this metaphor, and the kind of self-deception that my brother doesn't know how to pretend to understand makes people feel cute and ridiculous.
The stone itself is part of nature, but as an ornamental stone used for decoration, it gives other meanings, such as fortune. And the film is also because of the stones sent by the older brother's senior, which really brought fortune to the family, but also brought an unexpected abyss of chaos.
My brother's final act of putting this viewing stone into the river seemed to mean that the individual's strength could not change the original restraints and return to his own position. Perhaps it was the best choice.
When the senior asked his elder brother to do tutoring, he said that the family of the rich man had simple ideas, but it was actually simple in the true sense. It was the family of the protagonist. Dad had no plan to deal with the future. It sounded like he could deal with all the difficulties, but it was because of this. Ah Q's spirit kept Dad stuck in his comfort zone.
The cleverness of the brothers and sisters eventually pushed themselves into more unpredictable dangers.
The fate of the protagonist's family and the former housekeeper and his wife are all the representatives eliminated by the torrent of social development. From this perspective, who is the simple-minded person in society.
In addition, the senior's decision to let her brother be a tutor does not value his brother's knowledge and friendship. On the contrary, the senior thinks that his brother is the person who poses the least threat to him, because his identity and status are far from matching the class of the eldest lady. of.
In the rich man's house, in the middle of a wall of luxurious tableware, there is a black passage. This is the stepped entrance to the basement. This indicates that the fragile and glitzy surface has a darker and ulterior abyss.
The black humor in the episode where the former housekeeper plays the role of the North Korean anchor is very obvious. If you compare the former housekeeper’s couple to North Korea and the protagonist’s family to South Korea, it would be very interesting.
Not long after the beginning of the film, a drunk man urinated next to the protagonist’s house. They did not dare to cause trouble, but when they all had their own jobs, they found courage and confidence. They thought that the future was beginning to change in a positive direction. I shot a video of my father and brother splashing water at the drunk on my mobile phone. My sister said that the flood was flooding.
When they slipped out of the rich man's house that night in the heavy rain, we followed their perspective, from the highest point of the city, down, down, down, and finally to the lowest part of the city, where the rain was flooded.
The flood really came and completely submerged their home, which alluded to their status has not changed. They thought that after having a so-called decent job, they were superior to the drunk, but they did not know that their status remained the same.
After the murder, my brother had brain surgery. Although he was conscious, his reaction was to laugh constantly. He was deprived of the way to express his true feelings and became the most painful existence of the living.
At the end of the film, we thought that our brother finally figured out the head, but when the camera moves down, back to the basement, everything is just a beautiful vision.
There are several hints in the film that my brother's vision cannot be fulfilled. First of all, my brother failed the university exam four times. From a certain extent, I can see my brother's hard work index. When my elder brother wanted to solve a difficult problem with a stone, he also lacked innate courage, and was finally smashed into the head by the stone.
Judging from the hidden hints in the film, we can imagine the probability that my brother can cross the class.
The third point is the unhappy characters.
In Feng Junhao's work, all the protagonists are not really happy (call Mayday).
The same is true in "Parasite". The film does not have an obvious protagonist. In this group performance of sentient beings, we see that everyone in their own world has their own troubles, and behind these troubles, it happens to be with us. The annoyance of the audience can produce a familiar resonance.
For example, my father’s self-evasion of future difficulties, the fact that my brother wants to face difficulties but cannot do his best, etc., everyone is a part of this tragedy.
Song Kanghao’s father is the character with the richest character. He has a set of standards for his outlook on life, so he can say the value of the best plan for the future zero plan.
But at the same time, Dad is also a person who likes to step across the world, seeking recognition and dignity. After Dad became a driver, he forgot to be the master and servant of the president several times, and he crossed the bottom line of others several times.
On the night of the rainstorm, when the family was drinking and chatting, his mother mocked that if he saw the owner, he would hide like a cockroach. His father was furious, but in the end, the mother's sad smile made everyone mistakenly think it was a joke.
In fact, mother doesn't understand the character of father, but the pressure of life has made the couple forget their motivation to fight, become numb, and even lose dignity.
Dad can't stand the smell of others talking about him, he thinks this is his last bottom line. This is also the reason why my father killed the president excessively. At that time, the president's disdain for their lives and deaths completely extinguished the last trace of dignity of his father.
In addition to Dad, the other characters also showed twelve points of excitement in their plot. They intertwined this movie into a symphony of social morbid fables, not boring but full of playfulness and surprises, not superficial but Good at using skills to dig deep.
There are still many things worth exploring in the film. Everyone has different understandings and feelings. Finally, I sincerely recommend everyone to see this "Parasite". The absurdity and the reality are often mirrors of each other.
Last recommendation, recommendation, recommendation again! If you love movies, you must find a way to watch this movie!
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