Parasite

The Official Poster of Parasite.
"Parasite" is a metaphor for a family that feeds off others. The question in this film is which family is feeding off which?

The Parks are a well-to-do Korean family that are swindled by the poor Kim family. It starts off innocently enough when Min-hyuk (Park Seo-joon), the bff of Ki-Woo Kim (Choi Woo-shik) to tutor Da-hye Park (Jung Ji-so). Min cannot bear to tutor her anymore because he's fallen in love with her but she's too young. And so starts the most elaborate scheme ever.

This movie is so brilliant because you aren't watching a dark comedy, you're watching a thriller, a love story, a drama, a comedy. This movie has everything but animation and musical. WOW! The acting is massive, the direction is inspiring, the production values are insane (cost $11 million to make and has made $180 million at the box office). Crushing hard on Lee Sun-kyun btw.

Worth EVERY award, and I would say deserved acting awards. Hopefully Bong Joon-ho is allowed to make more films. This man is a genius!

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