Straightforwardly, the reason I don't like "Parasite" is that it falsely assumes the premise: the rich are not sensitive to the senses except for smell; the poor just have no money, and have the wit and adaptability that they should have.
Looking carefully at "Parasite", there are contradictions everywhere. This contradiction is not the contradiction between the poor and the rich in the plot itself, but the logical contradiction, or the contradiction of contradiction, the meta-contradiction.
The son who was so poor that he lived in a semi-basement failed the exam 4 times. He still did not earn money to supplement his family. Instead, he knew how to use educational psychology. The first time he was a tutor, he caught the psychology of the wealthy client and used empathy and strategy to win the position. . With this ability and thought, will it be too long to be willing to decay and sink in the dark basement with his family?
Everyone in the family has to borrow from other residents or cafes, but her daughter is proficient in PS, and can even forge documents perfectly. She has to recite the formula before entering the rich house, but she will check the art therapy related knowledge in advance, and can In front of the rich wives, she carefully pretended not to show her timidity, and even tricked her into tears. Is the emotional power of a woman from the bottom of society who recites words so powerful?
Poor mothers who have been waiting for their families for a lifetime can get rich businessmen and become servants in a very short time. They can also learn advanced cooking methods and abandon the habit of making ingredients without being discovered, even if they are "introduced" and "high-end care company" "It's a little too smooth. In fact, it’s hard to lose the simplicity of the lower-class women, right?
The family that kept saying "If I were so rich, I would be kinder than them", after doing everything they could to drive away the drivers and servants of the rich, they opened the door to the original maid who had the excuse to get things in secretly. (Of course, without this drama scene, there would be no subsequent series of metaphors and stories for the basement, right) They can really make a rainy night scary face break their own "upgraded" carnival and be affected by various uncertain situations. Pull back to reality?
The original maid, who was irritated by the truth, can complete it with just one click of forwarding, but she has been counter-killed according to the script of every "villain talks to death". It is really necessary to write the 4 brawny vs. 2 cruel fighting scenes. Does it have to be so intense?
Wealthy businessmen and wealthy women who have seen the world’s elites and even the habits of every dog must be clearly explained to the servants, but are indifferent to the education of their children, and important tutors and servants are introduced by people they trust. The old confidants just change, and no post-assessment is done; they are not sensitive to the smell of their own home, and know nothing about the end of the party that is cleaned up in 5 minutes. How slow and tired are they? It's not too slow, can't you still smell the poor people? It’s not too tired, aren’t you still playing on the sofa?
In fact, most of the people at the bottom are disregard of face, because most of them have long been accustomed to being dirty, their sensory abilities will decline due to adaptation, and their sensory thresholds are higher than average due to the power of habit. So when I think back to the movie, when a wealthy businessman doesn't like the smell on his father and covers his nose, does his father really blush so sensitively or even kill him? Do parasites really care about face so much?
There are many contradictory logics of this kind, so I won't list them one by one. On the surface, these contradictions are irrelevant. Art is always higher than life. But these are the core parts of the theme that "Parasite" wants to reveal. The self-perceived screenwriter is completely based on the gaze from the third perspective, and enters the logic of naive duel under the skin of multiple symbols. It is too simple to think of both human nature and class contradictions. Abstract concepts and political declarations could have flashed, but they were dimmed by serving the dark and ruined ideology. It was not bad, but because the internal logic was wrongly assumed, and the essence of the whole movie was instant noodles and fast food. Yes, so no matter how other aspects are to remedy, it is very weak, just as many moviegoers at the end of this film will guess, the inevitable party killing.
I don’t deny Bong Joonho’s success in casting and mirroring in "Parasite" and other technical aspects and actors’ performances, but I’m sorry, I really don’t like this rude "show you" form. Exposing reality, but being exposed by reality, not all parasites share the same fate. So I can't give high marks.
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