Looking at South Korea's film and television dramas in recent years, dare to shoot and become synonymous with it!
Whether it is the recent hit "Squid Game", "D.P Deserter Pursuit Order", or the "Snooping" of the first half of the fire, they all spy on human nature and reflect social reality from different levels.
The scale is so large and the scope is wide, as long as you want to watch, Korean film and television dramas dare to shoot!
One movie to share with you today is equally bold!
He uses black humor and banter to create a story, but at its core it's more poignantly ironic, and it's—
《Parasite》
Speaking of this movie, everyone should be familiar with it.
After all, after its release in 2019, it directly won the best film at the 92nd Academy Awards.
It also swept three awards: Best Director, Best Original Work and Best International Film.
At the same time, it also won the Palme d'Or For Best Film at the 72nd Cannes Film Festival.
It is known as the film that changed the history of Korean cinema.
What exactly is Parasite about? Why did it become the first film in Korean history to win an Academy Award?
Today, let's talk about this movie.
The male protagonist, Kim Ki-woo (Choi Woo-sik), was born in a family at the bottom of society.
He lives with his father Kim Ki-taek (Song Kang-ho), his mother Chung-sook (Jang Hye-jin), and his sister Kim Ki-ting (Park So-dan) and a family of four living in a dark, damp basement.
There is only one window in this basement that barely allows you to see the sunlight outside, and there are often drunks vomiting and peeing outside the windowsill.
The family made a living by folding out the takeaway boxes at the pizzeria.
On this day, the male protagonist Ki-woo's friend Min Hyuk (Park Su-joon) suddenly visits and asks him something.
It turns out that Min Hyuk is about to go abroad for an exchange, and he hopes to ask Ji Woo to take over from him as an English tutor for a rich family, Park Do-hye (Jeong Hee-hee).
However, as a person who did not enter the university four times, Ji Woo hesitated for a short time and then agreed.
In order to impersonate a college student, Ji Woo also deliberately asked his sister Ji Ting to give herself a fake certificate.
The next day, Ji Woo put on the clothes of a college student and came to the home of a rich family with a fake academic qualification.
This is an upscale villa on the hillside, with an oversized courtyard designed by a well-known architect, full of scenery, and every corner reveals the atmosphere of the upper class.
The english lesson on the first day was successful, and the simple hostess, Mrs. Park (Cho Joo-jin), was very satisfied with Ki-woo's performance and agreed that the english classes in the future would be attended by Ki-woo.
At the end, the hostess's youngest son, Duo Song, suddenly appeared and shot arrows everywhere in the living room, very naughty.
Mrs. Park explained that her younger son was out of control and inappropriate to discipline, and that every art teacher who taught him for no more than a month was distressed by this.
At this time, Ji Woo suddenly thought of his sister Ji Ting, who had studied painting and had artistic talent, so he lied that his sister was Jessica, an art student who had returned from Chicago, and introduced her to Duo Song as an art teacher.
Because the sister herself has a high artistic talent and a cool personality, the active Ta Sang has become very well-behaved under her sister's hands, and the simple Mrs. Park is very satisfied.
In this way, Ji Woo recommended his sister Ji Ting to this rich family to become an art teacher, in order to earn a good salary.
Ji Woo and his sister forced away the original driver and nanny through various means, pushed their father to the male protagonist, President Park (Lee Sun-kyun), as a driver, introduced their mother to be a nanny, and pretended not to know each other.
Step by step, they live in the homes of the rich, and in the process, their desires are constantly expanding, and the gap between the two families and two classes is also widening through their vision.
The twist of the film takes place on the night when a wealthy family is out on vacation.
The Ki-woo family drank and drank in the villa, and even lay in a cozy bathtub. The father fantasizes about the marriage of his son to the daughter of a rich man, and the whole family jumps into the upper class...
Just then, the nanny who had been driven away suddenly returned, and she went straight to the basement of her home.
It turned out that her husband was hidden by her in a basement unknown to everyone, and they were another pair of "parasites", hiding in dark corners and living on the rich family.
In order not to let the original nanny reveal the family's secrets, the two families fight for survival, which is also the most thrilling part of the film, and the desperate fight is only for a slightly decent life.
The rich family who cancelled the camping due to the rain also returned unexpectedly at this time.....
In a hurry, Ji Woo's mother had to kick the female nanny back to the basement, and her family fled the villa in a panic.
Braving the heavy rain, they returned home, only to find that because of the low terrain, the basement home was flooded by the rain, and the whole family was homeless and had to live outside the community center for the night.
On this night, President Park and his wife were lying comfortably on the luxurious sofa, enjoying the night view outside the window.
The next day, the Ki-woo family was hungry and rushed to serve President Park's family, and President Park hated that they had the "smell of the subway" on them.
If the film ends here, it is just a struggle between two poor families living at the bottom of society, revealing the gap between rich and poor.
The reverse and sadness was that the next day, the rich family held a party, invited all kinds of high society people, and the upper class outside the house was quiet for many years.
The strong gap between rich and poor and the sense of class antagonism finally caused his father Keizer to collapse.
After President Park asked him to take the knife over, and then revealed his disgust and disgust for the "smell of the subway" on him, he calmly and collapsed and stabbed the man to death with the knife, and then disappeared...
"Parasite" tells the story of a family at the lowest level of society, who coincidentally enters a rich family, lives in the home of a rich person "in the nest of a dove", like a parasite, clinging to their lives, and finally disillusioned and causing a tragedy.
The film seems to tell the story of two poor families attached to rich families, and it seems to tell the fantasy of how the rich people sucked away the labor, dignity and good life of the poor step by step.
Rich and poor, living under the same sky, breathing the same air, but living very different lives, some people live in high-end houses for a quiet time, and some people seek a line of survival in the endless inner volume.
The rich want to change a driver, a nanny, just a word, but the poor lose their only source of income and live on the streets.
The food, clothing, shelter and transportation of the rich are the efforts of tens of millions of poor families from morning to night, and they do not give up the care and service day and night.
At the end of the story, I can't help but ask who is the real parasite?