Parasite
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All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.
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Cho Yeo-jeong
Yeon-kyo
Choi Woo-shik
Ki-woo
Song Kang-ho
Kim Ki-taek
Park So-dam
Ki-jung
Lee Jung-eun
Moon-gwang
Jang Hye-jin
Chung-sook
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malachy
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Gripped me.. humour and madness... very funny, really mad
vladshkuratov
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I honestly didn't get it at all. Switched off after 30 mins
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Masterpiece. There is humor, drama, horror and suspense and all in a very well written script. The film is based first on a description of South Korean society with frightening social inequality; but the director goes beyond that to show us how this social drama which is based on this inequality can turn into a nightmare and a series of dramas which follow one another to lead us to a tragic end. There is humor, drama, horror and suspense. The film deserves its Palme d’Or!
malachy
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Gripped me.. humour and madness... very funny, really mad
vladshkuratov
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I honestly didn't get it at all. Switched off after 30 mins
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On February 9, 2020, history was made at the Academy Awards: South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho ("Snowpiercer") achieved the unprecedented with his drama/thriller PARASITE (Gisaengchung): The film was the first non-English language title to win the Oscar in the "Best Picture" category at the 92nd awards ceremony. (Edward Berger could possibly be the second in the group with his war drama "All Quiet on the Western Front".) In any case: On top of that, there was also a gold statue for "Best Director", for "Best Original Screenplay", and one in the "Best International Film" category.
At the end of 2019, "Parasite" is now on my watchlist, and to this day I have not managed to watch it. But I must honestly say that from the beginning - even after the Oscars were awarded - I did not have very high expectations of the title. Likewise, the plot, in combination with the subject matter of the film, didn't appeal to me at all. But since I'm currently catching up on a lot of titles and keep coming back to the prestigious stuff, I probably can't ignore "Parasite".
The question now is: Am I living through the classic Cinderella story here? An inconspicuous film title that I successfully ignored for a few years, that only touched me peripherally, suddenly emerges from obscurity and performs an incredible pirouette on the dance floor? Is that so? Definitely not! Because I simply couldn't see what elements make the film so special. Yes, it's quite nice. Yes, it's also solidly acted. (Although I've never seen so many unsympathetic, parasitic characters in one place.) Yes, it also looks - among other things - at the socially critical gap between the poor lower class and the rich regiment above. But is that enough for an award at the Academy Awards? For 4(!) awards? And then as “Best Film” of 2019??? C’mon! Sorry, with all due respect to Joon-ho’s work, but in the competition with “1917”, “The Irishman”, “Joker” or even “Jojo Rabbit” (even though I can’t stand these cross-genre comparisons), “Parasite” sucks and is BY FAR the weakest title.
I’ll keep it short: “Parasite” offers the audience average entertainment value, but has to put up with the criticism that the plot is extremely contrived and unnecessarily drawn out. In addition, the characters remain largely pale, have no depth, there was no emotional component anyway and I had to search for the core moral message - if there was one at all - with a damn magnifying glass. In the end, all that remains is the realization: We are light years away from a “masterpiece” and there can be no talk of a truly worthy Oscar winner.
Summary:
The Kim family has reached rock bottom: father, mother, son and daughter live in a dimly lit green basement and are not above taking on any temporary job. It is only when the youngest takes a job as a tutor in the Park family's ultra-stylish villa that the Kims get involved in the merry-go-round of class struggles. With clever tricks, remarkable talent and great team spirit, they manage to gradually get rid of the Park family's previous servants. The Kims soon become indispensable to their new masters. But then an unexpected incident triggers a chain of events that are as unpredictable as they are incomprehensible.
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An intelligent film and so true of our society, a masterpiece.
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I liked it until halfway through the movie, a good critique of society and very well captured. But towards the end it becomes too fantastical, ruining the entire plot already captured😮💨
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Great movie
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NoaRamMat
Honestly, I find it hard to understand, but in the end you get the hang of it.
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Entertaining
ibrahimFilm
Beautiful
Maria.Cascaes
A very crazy film, but very good. It doesn't really have a defined meaning, it's unpredictable.
The scenes combined with the soundtrack make the film a super experience. I liked
angela1234571529
heart stroke
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Vlada4
An unexpectedly interesting Korean film. Worthy of attention and its Oscar.
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A very random film, no matter how hard I try to understand the context, I can't. I was surprised from start to finish. It's not a bad film but rather a good, very complex film. I liked the way it was all filmed and how the story was done, unfortunately I didn't get attached to the characters and I think it was done on purpose. There is no more background on them and the plot twist leads us to understand that this is not the most important thing. In conclusion it was good but complex to understand and like.
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Peliculon. A little raw at the end but you can afford it. Very clear and hard messages too. One that is worth every minute
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