Posted on 03/11/2020 10:15:41 AM PDT by simpson96
A scene from Bong Joon Ho’s 2019 film, winner of the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, and Best Picture at the Academy Awards of 2019.
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I saw that movie when it first came out with English subtitles. No way was it even close to Joker. The ending was idiotic. It deserved Best Picture about as much as my home movies did.
Story-wise, it’s one of the best packaged movies of the past thirty years. About half-way through....they threw me for an entire loop, and in the last fifteen minutes.....another entire flip.
So why did you post this and what do you want me to take away from watching it? Did you like the movie? Did you hate the movie? Did you want to ruin it for people who haven't seen it?
Without comment or context I don't know what you want me to take from watching this scene.
Maybe he wanted to provoke an existential crisis that would leave you questioning why he posted the video clip and what he wants from you.
Then he succeeded. I will forever be haunted by a random scene from a movie I have never seen and I will likely never watch.
My life is now a spiral of doom.
It says more about the poor product Hollywood has been putting out more than anything.
Well, considering that I had never even heard of the movie before this FR thread, I can now say that “Yes, I have heard of that movie.”
And you will forever wonder about “The Peach”
(actually so will I)
I have seen much better dramas - TV mini-series and movies - from Korea than Parasite.
So I don’t mind giving the whole thing away.
Why did Hollywierd like it? Wait till the end.
The movie is about two families, one well off (the Parks) and one who lives in a literal basement apartment in a low income neighborhood (the Kims). Of course little is explained about the origins of one family’s success and the other’s low income status. What is clear is that no one in the Kim family - father, mother, daughter and son has a real job, though they do seem to have a certain kind of smarts - particularly the son and daughter.
The son does have a school chum who has risen above the social level of the Kim family, and that chum encourages the son to produce a fraudulent resume and go far a soon to be vacant job as a private mentor-tutor to a young girl (the daughter in the well-to-do Park family) - a job the school chum has been doing but must leave temporarily.
How bad is the area just outside the windows of the basement apartment where the Kims live? Men are observed urinating on the street/buildings just outside the Kim’s windows.
What becomes clear increasingly about the Kim family is that their key smarts and talents are in pretending, acting, fraudulently gaining positions from which to obtain some income. They are a family of grifters (like Billary, Inc.)
To make a long story short, gradually the whole Kim family - son, daughter, mother and father - have obtained paid positions working for the Park family (mentor & tutor to the Park’s daughter, maid & housekeeper, driver, and paid helper for both of the Park’s children) with mother and father Kim gaining their positions in the Park household by manipulating events from which the Park’s former maid/housekeeper and driver are out of a job, and replaced by the Kim parents. The machinations of the Kims is working so well the Park family is not aware the four Kims are even related - complete & phony names, references and connections are invented by the Kims.
The Liberal lovers of the movie make much of one incident in which Mr Park notices the smell of the man who has become his driver - Mr Kim. Everyone who has talked about this has written the incident up as if it was merely a “class” smell, because the Kims lacked the better home bathroom facilities than the Parks had (and they use the incident as reason for legitimate class envy against the Parks). But that scene actually occurs the day after torrential rains (and lousy local drainage and sewer systems) have caused heavy flooding of the Kims basement apartment. How bad? In one scene, toward the end of the flooding, the Kim’s son is sitting on a commode, which is itself on a platform about three feet above floor level. The dark water flooding the apartment is about 3-4 feet high, and water is coming up out of the commode as the son tries to have his weight hold the lid down - to no avail.
OF COURSE Mr Kim’s clothes smelled the next day!!!!!!
After the Kim family is ensconsed in jobs with the Parks, they discover a hidden door the architect of the home had made - and the Park’s didn’t know about.
Then while the Park family is away on a camping trip, they, the Kims, let the Park family’s former housekeeper into the Park’s house (why???). They soon discover the former housekeeper’s husband has been living in the secret basement for four years, to avoid loan sharks that are looking for him (and the Park family knowing nothing about it). As that unfolds, the former housekeeper is learning how the Kims have been conning the Park family. The Kim’s imprison her with her husband in the secret basement.
So (1) the former housekeeper and her husband have legitimate resentment for the low-life conning Kims; (2) both the Kims and the former housekeeper and her husband have class-envy resentment towards the Park family (likely why Hollywierd liked the climax).
The stage became set for senseless bloody rampage with plenty of senseless bloody killings all around.
The final is a post-climax end.
What is the movie MOSTLY about?
Class envy & a family of con artists using fraud and deception as their stairway to upward mobility & doing so at the expense of persons no better off than themselves; with typical Korean gangster-style bloody mayhem eventually making judgement on them all.
I saw the movie during a recent flight on an airline.
Go ahead. Flame me. I don’t care.
Hollywierd loved it for all the class envy. Korea has produced many, many movies better than Parasite.
and people paid real money to watch that???
Since simpson96 doesn’t seem to have any interest in explaining why he/she posted this particular scene, do you know why he/she posted this particular scene? Is there something special about this scene? Is there something I should get from this scene?
It is how the Kim family got the Park family’s housekeeper out of the way, so mother Kim could take her job at the Park’s house. The Kim’s had learned she was allergic to peaches and deliberately planted a peach peel on her. She got sick, was hospitalized and Mrs Kim got her job.
The Hollywierd set looked kindly on the Kims for their low status and status envy of the Park’s. All the while they were a family of con artists.
I can post a random scene from any movie without comment and context. Why would I believe anyone would know what I was trying to get at?
I agree with you.
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