No one is favored in an out-of-control tragedy

Ivory 2022-03-17 09:01:02

I was dragged to watch "Parasite" by my girlfriend without hearing anything about it. I thought it was a science fiction movie, ignorantly.

It was already 12:30 in the morning when the movie ended. We were shaking our heads and looking up at the night sky. The many and bright stars finally made us relieved. The remaining three-quarters of the breath didn't slow down until noon the next day while we were playing with the cat while watching "Bread and Soup and Good Weather with the Cat".

The director is skilled.

If you want to briefly describe the movie-watching experience, it might be like being beaten from the back of the head while eating fried chicken. When you fall down, you just want to ask: "Why are you hitting me?" There is no answer. This may be one of the reasons why I feel heavy and depressed after watching a movie. Sometimes the confusion about the minutiae is more difficult to let go of than the obvious tragedy.

In the first half of the film, the protagonist's family of four finds a job very smoothly. They support each other, cooperate with each other and cooperate with each other tacitly. We followed the perspective of the poor four, and we started to be nervous as we laughed out loud. The thunderous rainy night is not a good sign at all. The old housekeeper who suddenly came to the house was wronged and indebted, knowing that they were leaving. It's not the right way, but after the plot has taken a turn for the worse, I hope they can have a good ending. It's not about getting rich or just being awe-inspiring. It's just frankly eating a good meal and having a good night's sleep. However, when my mother kicked the former housekeeper down the stairs, I heard people in the theater taking a breath of air-conditioning. There is an essential difference between fraud and human life, and this fall almost killed them, the audience The little leeway reserved in my heart by default, at this time I don't know how to put it. But we still hope that they will not be found, can escape smoothly, and come up with a correct countermeasure before dawn. However, when the family lay from the basement flooded by the rainstorm to the crowded stadium, apart from the despair of broken dreams, there was only the exhaustion of the flesh.

Everything is going to be worse.

The tragedy seems to be not only that people who are in two worlds cannot understand each other, but also that people in the same situation have to be the first to draw their swords. Compared with the already well-known gap between the rich and the poor, the likes in the basement have beaten their heads to defend their jobs and put another layer of heaviness on the movie. But who can criticize the mortals who are struggling to survive and have the strength to lend a helping hand to others, like when a son sees his house filled with water, he can only turn a blind eye to the neighbor who wants him to help him, so he is a family drinker. When I was full of food and admired the rain in the courtyard, I remembered how the driver and the housekeeper, who were calculated to be unemployed by myself, lived at this time. "Being a good person" is just an illusion in a moment of ease. When the bloody reality comes, you may have yourself It is the instinct of survival that power tramples underfoot. After all, the action of flying a bug is already familiar, but embracing kindness is so dangerous and unfamiliar, like a trap.

The rainy night with no danger finally passed, and the director chose to let the story come to a dead end in a sunny and fine weather.

The confused and inferior son looked at the decent and glamorous guests completely disappointed in life, and he could not blend into the decent atmosphere with careful preparation. Others can feel comfortable even if they appear temporarily, as if they were born like this. At that moment I felt that he had confessed his life and gave up struggling, so he made the plan to sacrifice himself and deal with the situation in the basement alone, but he was not a cruel bad guy, nor did he realize what would happen to a truly desperate person. Decisively, he was just lucky enough to hold an unrealistic fantasy, and then he was smashed to death by it.

The younger sister who cooperated with the heroes to save the United States was stabbed in the heart by the madman who rushed out of the basement. Before she fell, she buckled the cake on the murderer’s face and cursed an swear word impatiently as usual. There is no hero to protect her, because she has never Not a princess, but she didn't want to pretend to be a princess either. Just like she was lying in a luxurious and comfortable bathtub or sitting on a toilet splashed with dung water, she could be alone. When her brother and father were still discussing the countermeasures for tomorrow, she was already asleep. She seems to never regret doing bad things, but how can you criticize her? She didn't feel sorry for the fact that she was about to die. So she said to her father, "Don't press it anymore, it hurts even more if you press it." Maybe she hoped that he could free up his hand to rescue the little boy.

Mother is a bold and powerful character. She once won a medal for her athletic strength. It may be the most dazzling moment in her life. On the day of the flood, her husband looked around and only took away the medal, but Some moments go out and they can't be taken away. Although she yearns to be a good person but can only deal with difficult situations time and time again, she must have never thought that her hands preparing to deliver food will eventually be stained with blood.

The portrait of Driver Jin was common at first. He didn't have a job but he was still lazy. In the pizza box folding job that his wife contacted, he was the only one in every four cartons who messed up. When he saw the drunk urinating in front of his own window, he was too lazy to stop it because he was afraid of more trouble, but when he was pierced like a shameless cockroach, he angrily picked up his wife's collar. Sitting leisurely in front of the huge floor-to-ceiling windows would occasionally think of the innocent driver he had replaced, but he chose to die when he saw a dying person twice. He was stunned in the sudden incident that was full of deaths and injuries, and finally vented all the backlog of irritability, confusion and anger to the employer holding his nose, as if this rich man was the murderer of his family. At this point, his simple-minded, lazy, face-loving, impulsive and violent personality traits gradually began to conform to the image of a middle-aged man in the social news. It may be difficult for bystanders to convince themselves that the problems he exposed are caused by poverty. The director said that this character is like a common uncle in our daily life, so it really makes people think about it.

Finally, let’s talk about the proprietor’s family. No one has done too much, and the family will be destroyed. They are portrayed as stupid people with a lot of money, and it seems that just a few harsh words on top of the dazzling wealth are enough to take away their chance of being forgiven. The director did not intend to give the family more explanations. What happened to them? Did the little boy survive? The director cleverly used questions to cut off the pity that might flow to the family. As the host of the victim, they only got the respect of the parasite in the end.

After the murder, Kim Ki-zek said in the letter that he seemed to immediately know where he should go, where the real parasite lives in the dark. He lived by stealing German food, and the anger he had had that day seemed to disappear without a trace.

In the director's wonderful story, he seems to be just a calm scrutiny, after all, he has not favored anyone.

And we are the same.

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Extended Reading
  • Raphaelle 2022-03-24 09:01:16

    Unlike "Mother", which focuses on temporality, this film focuses on spatiality, which is about the most profound "spatial politics". The first and last shots are all about pulling down. This action deeply interprets what “downflow” is: rain and sewage flow to the lower layer, but never flood the upper layer. The space here maintains the (re)production of movement and position: no matter what, the family will never be able to control where they are and what they see (in front of their own door or in another courtyard), but this is not the most exciting sorrowful. When the production of space politics is far from limited to material (sex), but to incorporate everything around, even smells, the audience will suddenly fall with the last pull-down lens, compelling to admit the chains imposed on them. . The deep door that communicates the upper and the lower will only be opened when we are pretending to be dressed up. All our resistance efforts are just a drama. If the window is regarded as a metaphor, then everyone is actually in a semi-basement, living on the basis of "illusions" and imitation desires and surrendering to order. The truth and the untruth are not important anymore.

  • Stanford 2022-03-23 09:01:15

    Reading this video produces compassionate people, bodhisattvas; those who are afraid of the heart are also gentlemen; those who produce joyful hearts are also the villains; those who have the effect of the law are beast ears.

Parasite quotes

  • Kim Ki-jung: [about Moon-gwang] She may look like a sheep, but inside, she's a fox. Sometimes she acts like she owns the house.

    Kim Ki-woo: Right. Of all the people in that house, she's lived there the longest. She was housekeeper to the architect Namgoong, but then she went on to work for this family. When the architect moved out, he introduced this woman to Park's family, telling them, "This is a great housekeeper, you should hire her".

    Chung-sook: So she survived a change of ownership.

    Kim Ki-woo: She won't give up such a good job easily.

    Kim Ki-jung: To extract a woman like that, we need to prepare well.

    Kim Ki-woo: Right, we need a plan.

    Park Da-hye: [cut to a scene with Ki-woo and Da-hye] I want to eat peaches. I like peaches best.

    Kim Ki-woo: Why not ask for some?

    Park Da-hye: No peaches at our house. It's a forbidden fruit.

    Kim Ki-woo: [cut back to the Kims; referring to Moon-gwang] So according to what Da-hye told me, she's got a pretty serious allergy to peaches. You know that fuzz on the peach skin? If she's anywhere near it, she gets a full body rash, has trouble breathing, asthma, a total meltdown!

    [Moon-gwang falls sick after Ki-woo puts peach fuzz on her]

    Ki-taek: Anyway. I wasn't trying to eavesdrop, but her words came through clearly! So I couldn't help but...

    Kim Ki-woo: Cut, cut! Dad, your emotions are up to here. Bring them down to about there.

    Ki-taek: So I couldn't help but overhear...

    Kim Ki-woo: Keep it focused!

    Ki-taek: [to Mrs. Park] What I'm trying to say is... it's just that, your housekeeper's voice is quite loud, you know?

    Park Yeon-kyo: I understand, it's all right. Just tell me, okay?

    Ki-taek: She said she got diagnosed with active tuberculosis and she was practically shouting over the phone, so upset she could barely control herself!

    Park Yeon-kyo: Tuberculosis? Come on...

    Ki-taek: It's true, she phoned someone saying she had active TB.

    Kim Ki-wooPark Yeon-kyo: Do people still get TB?

    Kim Ki-woo: [cut back to the Kims] Dad, back in the day, people used to buy Christmas Seals, right? Feels like a bygone era.

    Ki-taek: [cut back to Ki-taek and Mrs. Park] But I saw it on the internet. Korea has the #1 rate of TB of all the OECD countries.

    Kim Ki-woo: [cut back to the Kims] But she's still working, as if nothing's wrong - with a kid like Da-song in the house.

    Ki-taek: [cut back to Ki-taek and Mrs. Park] So you've got a young kid like Da-song in the house, and a TB patient is doing dishes, cooking, spraying spittle...

    Park Yeon-kyo: Stop it, please!

    [cut to the Kims putting peach fuzz on Moon-gwang, causing her to fall sick again, and Ki-taek using chili sauce to fake Moon-gwang's blood]

  • [last lines]

    Kim Ki-woo: Dad, today I made a plan - a fundamental plan. I'm going to earn money, a lot of it. University, a career, marriage, those are all fine, but first I'll earn money. When I have money, I'll buy the house. On the day we move in, Mom and I will be in the yard. Because the sunshine is so nice there. All you'll need to do is walk up the stairs. Take care until then. So long.