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Penetrating "Parasites" into other segments of the population will make you think and remember this movie

I wanted to write a review about "Parasites" a long time ago, which impressed me very much, and the moments from the movie that I still keep recalling.

You may have heard about "Parasites" many times but this is a picture of South Korean film director Bong Joon-ho, who received the Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival this 2019 year. Bong Joon-ho has been in cinematography for many years, and he is well known globally for quite a long time. His thriller “Snowpiercer” was mentioned many times, which I have not watched yet, but I will watch all of his works after seeing the Parasites.

A two-and-a-half-hour film plunges us into the tragic scene of two families, shows us the relationships of people from different social groups. At the first hour of a movie, viewers laugh on the truth in person’s essence they might see in themselves, and the next hour and a half they are amazed at the wretchedness, greed, cruelty, and such a strange stupidity of a human being. However, by the end of the film, the lower middle class is making a real mess by killing each other with flying axes and knives at the celebration of the rich child’s birthday party. At another scene, a father saving his son’s life disgusts because of the stagnant smell of an unwashed man, and thus infuriates the other poor person with his reaction that he rushes at him and inflicts multi-knife wounds. It all turns into an action-packed thriller - a movie with the genre that one can never predict.

Mr. Joon-ho did a film with such an artistry from the very beginning to the last minute. Video cameras going up and down, showing the first scene of the basement window with hanging socks, and finishing the movie at the same place is a unique technique. He has also put many symbols and traditions of Koreans in scenes that you can discover for yourself, as I have done so. For example, how they do cremate bodies and store in a common bank premises with a huge number of cells and photographs of the deceased in it.

This movie will definitely make you think and at the same time will raise the problem of classes inequality, revealing each hero.

I definitely recommend watching "Parasites".
Photo from kyivdaily. 

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