don't have to

Kasey 2022-04-20 09:01:11

I just watched "Parasite" in typhoon weather yesterday. When the whole house in the semi-basement was flooded due to the heavy rain, when the scraps of the home were floating on the water, the youngest son of the president's family living in the high-rise villa designed by the architect was because of the heavy rain. Excited to be able to camp in the rain. While I was sitting in a rental house in an old Shanghai community listening to the sound of rain, I remembered the last few pages of the Chinese textbooks for primary and secondary schools circulating on the Internet. Example sentences for the usage of colons:

Zhang Hua was admitted to Peking University; Li Ping was admitted to a secondary technical school; I worked as a salesperson in a department store: we all have a bright future.


"Parasite" is a schoolboy-like film -- not a simple narrative technique or expression, but in my opinion, it is more powerful and invisible -- the simplicity of "Parasite" is the use of simple, symbolic and With minimal or very straightforward means, it tells a story with conflict, twist and excitement. The whole film has no nonsense and no discarded shots, and every frame is serious about telling the story. I think everyone has already watched or is on the way to watch it, so I won't repeat the movie here.

After this simple story came to an end, it was a small collapse of the TOP 5 high-class people on Weibo today who were noisy repairing toilets. To be honest, I have no interest in this quarrel. Personally, I also think that the blogger is probably just a slip of the tongue because of all kinds of trivial matters, so there is no need to cause such a large-scale discussion and abuse. However, at the same time, I also feel that the blogger is actually the same as many, many people, with a little less empathy and a little more superiority.

Similar to my situation (in fact, the situation is better than mine), my colleague in Shanghai once told me that when he talked about the house with his colleagues in the company, he could feel that the local colleagues could not have a relationship with our migrant workers. Resonance, people don't really care. In fact, when he said this to me, as someone who never participated in real estate discussions during company lunches because I didn't have a house, I didn't have much sympathy.

On the contrary, I can understand why local colleagues don't resonate, and why some people think a little because they can't resonate. Human beings are inherently less empathetic and more superior. No matter what absurd reasons the lack of empathy and superfluous superiority come about, I don’t think there is anything wrong.


The serious dramatic climax of the scene in "Parasite", the driver's daughter is stabbed in the heart, and the president's family only cares about the young son who faints from the shock. It's such a clever scene, no one has done anything wrong, but when put together, there will always be people who feel that one party has done something wrong. I read the reviews of "Parasite" on the Internet, and I saw many reviews that made me want to roll my eyes. Work, and then the conversation changed. In the early morning of an overtime shift, the boss proposed to send him home. Maybe it was the logo of the car or maybe the boss said "I have never been to this city". The author immediately felt cold, as if walking away. Entering the semi-basement of Kim Ki-taek's family, an unemployed homeless man in "Parasite", it was only at this moment that he realized that he was the bottom of society.

When I see this kind of film review, I can't help but say two more harsh words, but I also understand that I just don't want to be happy and unhappy for a while, and such a film review is essentially nothing to be mean.

It's not that years have turned me into a gentle person, but that I don't have to.

You don’t have to be proud of your household registration, education, or social status, and you don’t have to be disappointed with your household registration, education, or social status. Of course, be a little more radical. I don’t even think you need to pay more attention to the pride and disappointment that people have. Colleagues are talking about the house and you don’t want to listen to them, so just play with your phone for a while. Anyway, apart from family and friends, any form of asking for help is essentially a gossip with the heart of watching the fun or watching jokes. In the era of opening up any social media, every company and everyone is making you buy things, all the indifference and superiority can be reasonably explained, but I don't think it is necessary.


The Kim Ki-taek family in "Parasite" made me think they were cute. They scolded and folded pizza boxes, made fun of each other, made mischief, cheated, and embarrassed each other. However, they are a family. It is the tacit understanding and support that family members have. It is the younger sister who walked to the luxurious wealthy area, hesitated for a while before ringing the doorbell, and revisited the script she had written with her brother. The president's family is not annoying at all, a wife who is too simple, a father who plays walkie-talkies with his younger son, and a rich lady who is serious and sincere in love with others. I guess that's another neat thing about the movie, no one is annoying, but in a basement and villa that goes down and up, it's a life-and-death experience. But from my partial perspective, it's still a lovely story.

Of course, there are also people in this world who think that love is not important, and that's OK.


In my opinion, a balanced society is a disabled person with severe disabilities driving an electric wheelchair in line at a bus stop. The driver puts down the connecting plate of the carriage and the ground. It's the same as going to see them; it's raining days, you should order takeout, but you won't complain about the timeout; it's that no one is standing high or low.

Difficult and impossible. I know.

But what does it matter? Just when I finished writing this article, there happened to be a sunset with the best angle in the window of my home.

You don't have to agree with what I said above, after all, everyone can see, after all, only their own life.

You don't have to show pity to others, you don't have to surrender to fate, anyway, as long as you want everyone to see the same sunset.

Let's watch the sunshine at that moment again :)

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Parasite quotes

  • Ki-taek: [message to Ki-woo] Perhaps you, if no one else, will be able to read this. You were a Scout, so I'm writing this just in case. Have your injuries healed? I'm sure your mother is plenty healthy. I'm doing fine in here. Though thinking of Ki-jung makes me cry. Even now, what happened that day doesn't seem real. It feels like a dream, and yet it doesn't. That day as I went out the gate, I suddenly knew where I needed to go. A house where such a grisly thing took place would surely not be easy to sell. I've struggled to hold on in this empty house. Still, thanks to the house being empty - what was her name, Moon-gwang? - I was able to give her a proper send off. I hear treeside burials are trendy. So hell, I did my best. Those real estate sharks sure are clever. They duped some people who had just arrived in Korea and managed to sell the house. With the parents working and the kids attending school, the family is usually out. But the damned housekeeper stays here 24 hours a day. Each time I go upstairs, I take my life into my hands. And it turns out Germans eat more than just sausage and beer. What a relief. Passing the time down here, everything starts to go hazy. Today at least, I was able to write you this letter. If I send out the letter this way every night, maybe someday you'll see it. So long.

  • Kim Ki-woo: [narrates] Opening my eyes for the first time in a month, I saw a detective who looked nothing like a detective. Then the doctor who looked nothing like a doctor spoke. Even when I heard how much Ki-jung bled that day... even when I heard the words "forgery", "trespassing", "foul play", "murder", and that we were lucky to get away with probation... even when I finally got to see Ki-jung's face, I kept laughing. Though when I went back and watched the news reports, I didn't laugh.