isaac-oscars:

While working on the film, Bong Joon-ho called Parasite a “staircase movie”. It is an upstairs-downstairs film that explores every available rung on the ladder of class aspirationalism. The movie starts in the half-basement apartment of the Kim family, with windows that barely peer above the ground. Half-basements are distinctively Korean spaces in urban centers like Seoul, and while the Kim house is firmly below ground, it still “wants to believe it’s above the ground.” 

 A story about two homes — the upstairs family and the downstairs — reveals yet another lurking underneath. The original housekeeper confesses that her husband has been stowed away in a secret bunker underneath the Park house for four years. The Kims are shocked by the state of his living conditions.

In the end of the film, the father becomes the new resident in the bunker, hiding from the police in the last place they’d look to find him. The Parks move out, only to be replaced by a German family. The particularities may have changed, but everyone’s station has remained the same. There would always be a wealthy person to live upstairs, just as there would be another poor person positioned beneath them. - by E. Alex Jung

Parasite | 기생충 | Gisaengchung (2019) dir. Bong Joon Ho, production design by Lee Ha Jun

cinemapix:

CINEMAPIX’S 1st Year Anniversary: Top 10 Films as Voted by Our Followers:

3. Parasite (2019)

Rich people are naive. No resentments. No creases on them.

pharahsgf:

when parasite said the rich can afford to be kind, when parasite said global warming is most catastrophic for those least responsible, when parasite said the rich are the ones with access to sunlight, when parasite said the efforts of the working class are invisible to their exploiters, when parasite said water only ever flows from the rich down to the poor and never in reverse, when parasite said the rich are the real parasites for leeching off of their workers’ labour

featurefilms:

She never crossed the line. If there’s one thing I hate, it’s people who cross the line.
Parasite (2019) dir. Bong Joon-ho

escapekit:

Parasite Posters
Fans of the film Parasite which took home best picture at the Oscars have designed their own posters for the film, playing with visual and metaphoric themes of the movie.

kimkijeongs:

Another layer to this sequence is the moment when the son [Ki-woo] (Choi Woo-shik) instructs his father [Ki-taek] (Bong’s longtime collaborator Song Kang-ho) how to act out the script they had written. “When they rehearse it looks like filmmaking,” Bong remarks. “It’s a humorous scene. In reality, the father is played by one of the most renowned actors and the son is an up-and-coming actor. It’s as if Ansel Elgort is teaching acting to Al Pacino. It’s funnier for the Korean audience.” 

breaking down a scene in Parasite (2019)

rodrickheffeley:

Parasite (2019) dir. Bong Joon-ho

carlagiguno:

The Differences during and after the storm.
Parasite 기생충, 2019 dir. Bong Joon-ho

buffysummers:

She’s rich, but still nice. Not “rich, but still nice.” She’s nice because she’s rich. You know? Hell, if I had all this money, I’d be nice, too!
PARASITE / 기생충 (2019) dir. Bong Joon-ho

joel-miller:

Rich people are naive. No resentments. No creases on them.
It all gets ironed out. Money is an iron. Those creases all get smoothed out.

PARASITE (2019) dir. Bong Joon-ho