"No Samsung, no South Korea."
In South Korea, the leading position of the Samsung consortium is unshaked, so South Korea has been jokingly called the "Republic of Samsung". It is no exaggeration to say that in South Korea, 2 out of every 100 Koreans are Samsung employees.
Such a bold Samsung, its founder Li Bingzhe is an authentic poor man.
In 2019, the film "Parasite", invested by Li Bingzhe's granddaughter, mocked the poor on a large scale, but became the most beautiful movie in 2020.
It not only won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, but also won four heavyweight awards at the Academy Awards, including Best Original Screenplay, Best International Film, Best Director and Best Picture, sweeping Hollywood.
Film history records that the only American film that won the Palme d'Or and the Oscar for Best Picture at the same time in Cannes was the American film "Gentleman's Good" released in 1956.
What kind of movie can conquer Europe and Hollywood at the same time, openly mock the poor, but also get 920,000 praise from Douban?
Today, Uncle Chai will take you to uncover the hidden secrets of "Parasite".
"Parasite" is an absurd story spanning three families and two themes.
The three family forms of "above ground", "half above ground" and "underground" divide people in the same land into three, six, nine and so on.
"Above ground" is a circle of rich people represented by President Park. President Park runs a company, a family of four, children and daughters, living in a luxury villa designed by the architect Nangong Xianzi, and the area of a garage can fit an ordinary family's "four generations together".
The first time the poor came to their house, they learned what "poverty limits imagination" and that their dogs ate high-grade foods.
This confirms a line in Liu Cixin's novel: "One day, the difference between the rich and the poor will be greater than between people and dogs." ”
Such favorable conditions gave President Park's family the capital to act as a host.
"Halfway" is a poor cave represented by Kim Ki-taek. The same is the children of the two complete, other people's family called the years quiet, while the Kim Ki-taek family can only be called "remarkable" Gou And.
Kim Ki-taek's family of four, all of whom are unemployed vagrants, and his son Kim Ki-woo has not been admitted to college four times and is unwilling to go out to work.
Daughter Jin Jiting played a good PS, can put Qin Shi Huang and Ma Yun P together, and there is no sense of violation.
The whole family ate together and waited for death, and struggled to survive by folding pizza boxes.
For them, the most stubborn is to take advantage, and the most stable is to be poor.
Stubborn to what level, in addition to not rubbing medicine to eat, can rub all rubbed. Rubbing the air, rubbing the food, rubbing the wifi that is all low-level. What makes people stumble is that they even rub disinfectant.
When the staff is throwing disinfectant, instead of closing the doors and windows, they open the windows to disinfect.
They use their strength to maximize the clarity of the face of taking advantage, as if living is only a means, and taking advantage is the goal.
How poor is it, so poor that whenever it rains, the house is like a hollow, the water is piled up, and they are like cockroaches, running around.
More than that, drunks can pee recklessly on top of their heads through windows that are level with the ground.
Therefore, the Kim Ki-taek family has become a parasitic gang without any violation.
The "underground" is a parasitic squad represented by president Park's housekeeper's family. Her husband, Wu Qinshi, had been secretly deposited in President Park's basement for a long time in order to avoid debts.
"Above ground", "half above ground", "underground", these three seemingly impossible overlapping families, because one person has made a connection.
This man Kim Ki-woo's friend Min Hyuk. Min Hyuk introduces his part-time tutoring job at President Park's house to Kim Ki-woo, who is the least threatening to him because he wants to study abroad.
In order to successfully win the job, Kim Ki-woo first pulled his sister Kim Ki-ting to give herself a fake diploma from a prestigious university, and then teased the Park family's stupid white sweet daughter Do-hye who did not understand the world during the lecture.
Seeing that Mrs. Park is very concerned about her son Do-sung's painting, Kim Ki-woo lies that he knows an international student majoring in art psychology at the University of Chicago in Illinois and can introduce him to Do-sung as a teacher.
In this way, Kim Ki-ting successfully "parasitized" to the Park family.
Then, Kim Ki-ting used some small tricks to drive away the driver, and her father Kim Ki-taek successfully took the position.
Before taking up his post, Kim Ki-taek also went to the Mercedes-Benz shop to find out the performance of mercedes-benz cars.
This family, like a monster escalation, invaded the Park family step by step, and the last step was to drive away the housekeeper and let Kim Ki-woo's mother take her place.
This step can be said to be quite "parasite", in order to get rid of the housekeeper, the Jin family came to a "team punch card".
Kim Ki-woo learns from Do-hye that the housekeeper is allergic to peaches, Kim Ki-ting secretly sprinkles peach hair on the housekeeper, and Kim Ki-taek is responsible for secretly filming in the hospital to create perjury that Wen Guang has tuberculosis.
After a series of "riot operations", they successfully expelled the housekeeper.
Just when the audience laughed in the relaxed tone laid by the film, the director suddenly changed tone and staged an absurd tragedy, peeling off the shell membrane of the parasite little by little in the repression, revealing the bloodthirsty nature of the parasite.
On this day, it is the birthday of President Park's son, and the family wants to camp in the wilderness.
As soon as the park family's four families left on the front foot, the four members of the Jin family couldn't wait to live in.
Sleep in someone else's big bed, use someone else's jacuzzi, peek into the girl's diary. Drinking wine and singing songs, life has simply reached its peak.
But with a torrential rain and a sudden doorbell, the "parasites" were beaten back to their original form.
During a rainstorm, the housekeeper remembered her husband who was hiding in the basement, and braved the rain to come to the Park family, saying that she was taking the leftover things.
When the housekeeper turned around and came to a hidden basement, the Jin family found that there was a large living person hidden in the basement, and it was four years.
And all this, the Park family did not know.
The encounter between two pairs of parasitic families makes the first half of the shot presented in a semi-comedic way, instantly full of irony.
Four years of isolation have turned entrepreneurial loser Wu Qinshi into a giant baby.
The obscenity of his bottle wrapping, the ugliness of climbing the stairs, was like a bug in a gutter.
When the housekeeper discovered the secret of the Jin family, she immediately took a video as evidence to threaten the Jin family.
The two families fight each other for the right to live. During the fight, learning that the owner's family is about to arrive home, Kim Ki-woo's mother kicks the housekeeper into the basement.
The housekeeper suffered a head injury and died in a dark basement.
And here, as soon as the master entered the house, the Jin family sneaked under the sofa like cockroaches. They had to wait until they were asleep and flee back to the dirty, rain-filled basement.
A heavy rain knocked everyone back to their original shape. The rich are as rich as ever, and the poor are becoming more and more poor.
The film uses flashing shots to compare the living environment of the owner and the parasite, so that the audience's visual and emotional ups and downs.
The light on the "halfway" is always dim, while the sunlight on the "ground" is always noon.
The next day, the sun was still rising as usual, but the three families sang a tragic symphony.
At the birthday party for Dorsong, greed and lies are exposed, and the three families are grieving.
In order to get a long-term meal ticket for the Park family, Kim Ki-woo secretly runs to the basement to kill Wu Qinshi, but tragically, stealing chickens does not succeed but hurts his head.
Enraged, Wu Qinshi rushed out of the basement with a knife and killed Kim Ki-ting, but was stabbed to death by Kim Ki-ting's mother with an iron frame for grilling meat.
I thought the tragedy would end here, but the plot took a big turn here.
Kim Ki-taek stabbed president Park to death with a knife when he showed a disgusted expression in the face of "the taste of the poor.".
This knife can be said to be the essence of the film, which has a distortion of human nature and a catalytic effect of class contradictions.
In short, three families, in the golden-rimmed sun, were broken and broken.
In fact, what is broken is not only these three families, behind the absurd and nonsensical story, is the real social appearance of the entire bottom group.
Through surrealism, the director omitted the real social background of Korea and reflected a real social reality with a fictional absurd story.
The gap between rich and poor and class contradictions is always an insurmountable gulf between the poor and the rich.
The poor and the poor hate each other, and they are the same people at the bottom, and when there is a conflict of interest, they do not feel sorry for each other, but hang others and defend themselves.
There is a lot of hypocrisy between the poor and the rich, the rich seem to be kind, but in their hearts they draw boundaries with the poor, they don't care who provides services for themselves, and the people they care about who provide services can abide by their duties.
Therefore, the housekeeper driver can be easily replaced.
The poor seem pitiful, but they are full of prejudice against the rich.
Even if the Park family treats themselves well, it is also hypocritical in the eyes of the Jin family. Because they are inferior, they can't stand the lofty posture of the Park family, and the arrogance in the bones of the Park family has become a prejudice in their eyes.
Guo Degang once said: "Rich people have a long conscience, and poor people have treacherous plans." ”
Rich, as if it comes with its own filter beauty, gives a layer of false meaning to the free-will goodness. And poverty, as if it were original sin, gives the malice of the heart a high-sounding excuse.
Therefore, when the Kim family was partying in the Park family, the Kim family's mother said the self-deprecating joke of "not rich but very kind, but rich so kind, if I have money I will also be kind" to seek comfort.
Because in the world of crows, you are guilty of having a white feather.
Therefore, it is also possible to understand that Kim Ki-taek would react so much to the taste. President Park's instinctive reaction to taste is a sin in Kim Ki-taek's eyes. In his mind, it was a soap bubble that could not wash away the poor acid.
The smell is only a carrier, carrying the miasma of the Jin family's poverty. Therefore, Kim Ki-taek's killing of President Park was not an accident, but a complete outbreak after the embarrassment, a kind of maintenance of his own dignity, but this maintenance is only a meaningless struggle of the people at the bottom.
In fact, on another level, the tragedy of the film is also part of reality. Because the rich have first-hand connections, they can stand at the top of the pyramid and roam the rivers and lakes. The poor, on the other hand, have no chance to do nothing for the rest of their lives.
In the film, the Park family's mansion changes owners, but Kim Ki-taek hides in the basement because of murder and becomes Wu Qinshi's successor.
Therefore, the film indirectly expresses a reality of powerlessness: the class only flows horizontally, not up and down.
Faced with this reality, will the parasite have to live in a dark gutter for the rest of its life?
In fact, this is not entirely the case, Kim Ki-woo can be selected by Min Hyuk, in addition to his zero risk, but also because his language basic skills are not a problem. Jin Jiting is a ps master, but chooses to squeeze in the basement with her family to fold pizza boxes.
Moreover, when they are hit by opportunities, they do not choose to throw off the parasitic baggage through dignified efforts, and truly stand on the same lawn as the rich. Instead, he chose to enjoy a "rich man's day trip" after the owner left. ”
Therefore, the tragedy of parasites is not necessarily the tragedy of the times and the tragedy of the disparity between rich and poor, but also the tragedy of choice.
Therefore, at the end of the film, whether the parasite can get out of the basement, different people will have different answers in their hearts.
Perhaps, this is the charm of "Parasite", different people to interpret, there will be different Easter eggs and surprises.
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