Parasite (2019) by Bong Jun-ho

Parasite is a 132-minute film that combines drama, heist, black comedy, and thriller genres. It was Bong Joon-ho’s 7th film,  released in 2019 at the Cannes Festival, and received an award. It was the most impactful film in 2019, with the award from the Oscars, the first international film of all time that win the award for the best film. 

Parasite focused on the Kim family, a poor family due to the bankruptcy of the father’s companies. It shows the situation of the Kim family first, and then moves to the main event, the fraud towards the Park’s family, who have a successful life due to the VR market. Parasite is not only focused on the heisting, but also the fight inside the poor hierarchy, the fight to achieve a better life than others. Even though those actions are wrong and illegal, it doesn’t matter to them, as they care about money and wealth. It shows the society in which we are living of capitalism, which shows the problems inside capitalism, and creates consequences that we have created in this society. 

In the middle of the scene of the film (71-75), Kim’s family fights against Moon’s family, the family that had hired Park’s family previously and fired them after Kim’s family hired. They fought inside the Park’s family, trying to hide the evidence of the Kim’s family fraud. It presents the crime inside from the lower classes, hiding from society, and shows their work throughout the world. Also, it shows precisely about the lower class, fighting against each other, desiring the upper class, having wealth, with a cup of Wine. The interesting part is the area of they fought, Park’s family's house. Even though those people are not living in that house, their movement and actions looks like they own that house. It shows their dreams of living in an enormous house, representing their aspirations for success, with no debt requirements.