I have not seen it but this really piques my curiosity.
I have not seen it but this really piques my curiosity.
Not to be negative but Parasite is a very typical Korean movie. Lots of stress, conflict and an untranslatable trait Koreans call “han.”
I, surprisingly, liked it. I’m guessing you would, too, RF.
War of the Arrows, alternately titled Arrow: The Ultimate Weapon, is a good Korean film.
I read the whole review at the link.
Very interesting. A much different take on the Oscar winner than anything else I have read.
I normally don’t pay any attention to the Oscars, but I had a horse in the race this year with “1917.”
Quite disappointed over that. But there may be more to this South Korean film than I thought. Maybe our public library will get the DVD soon ...
The point of the movie is actually expressed by several of the characters in a few scenes. The main character begins his “ascent” into the life of the upper classes when he meets a school mate who sets him up as an English tutor. He also gives him a mysterious “philosopher’s stone” that he carries with him throughout the movie going up the hill to the rich people’s house and then falling back with the stone into his sewer connected apartment when their scheme is almost exposed and a powerful storm flushes he and his family down the hill.
The story is a nihilistic metaphor based on the myth of Sisyphus. If you are born in the “wrong” class all your struggles are pointless because no matter how you may try to get ahead you will always fall back down the hill. The rich class are completely undeserving of their success and have no understanding or appreciation of the humans that live at the other end of the spectrum. Its basic Marxism without the “dictatorship of the proletariat” part at the end.
It’s good :)
Very interesting. I want to see this.
One review I read claimed it was all about Global Warming, i.e. the last scene with the rainstorm that delighted the rich people but destroyed the poor family’s home showed how rich people are privileged over poor people wrt weather.
I am not a fan of movies that I have to read but having said that I really did enjoy this movie.
Frankly I fought its message was like the Jack In the Beanstalk message don’t kill the goose that laid the golden egg.
Looked at some reviews on Netflix. Added this to my queue. We’ll see.
The main reason I saw The Deer Hunter was because Jane Fonda called it Pentagon propaganda. Likewise, I’ll check out Parasite, thanks to it being trashed by a writer from the Slimes.
I remember a thread years ago on FR about "conservative movies". A couple of FReepers recommended Serenity. I looked it up and discovered that it was a sequel to a TV series called Firefly. So, I started watching the TV series, (only 13 episodes) and then the movie Serenity. If it seemed conservative, it was probably accidental. It showed an evil futuristic state that sought to control everything about people's lives. Although a scifi show, it had an American Western vibe. The rebellious heroes were sort of modeled on Confederates who had lost a civil war.
So, great show and great follow-up movie that resonated with conservatives. However, both were created by Joss Whedon, whose political beliefs are basically the same as Rob Reiner's. I guess he made a conservative allegory without realizing it. Maybe the director of Parasite did likewise.