Parasite

Parasite, a 2018 thought provoking, satirical suspense thriller, by south korean writter and producer

Bong Joon-ho. The film takes place in South Korea, where we are met by two families,

almost exactly opposite to each other. The Kims, a lower class family, living in a

basement, struggling to make ends meet and taking several odd jobs to put food on the

table. And their more priviledged counterparts, the Park family, living what any lower

class household would consider ‘the dream life’. A successful husband providing for his

blissfully naive wife, as well as their two gifted kids.

By means of a recommendation, the Kims’ son starts working for the Park family, as an

english tutor for their eldest daughter. Soon after, his sister begins working as an art

teacher for the rich family’s younger son, by forging an entire exemplary curriculum.

Soon the whole family is working in the house, after coming up with ways to swiftly get

rid of the previous staff working for the unsuspecting Park family.

This family builds a web of lies that allows them to scam their rich counterparts, while

giving them a sense of fake safety, where they build an illusion around themselves,

incasing them in a bubble of perceived luxury, where they can finally feel like they are

living the life they always worked so hard for.

It is only when the former housekeeper returns to the house that this assumed

unbreakable bubble shatters around them, slowly slicing away at the illusion they had

created, only to reveal the crushing reality they were now faced with, the housekeepers

husband had been hiding in a bunker beneath the house. The Kims are standing before a

moral dilema, should they cover for a struggling family just like theirs? Or will they come

clean and expose the truth, blowing their cover along the way?