The Kims - mother and father Chung-sook and Ki-taek, and their young adult offspring, son Ki-woo and daughter Ki-jung - are a poor family living in a shabby and cramped half basement apartment in a busy lower working-class commercial district of Seoul. Without even knowing it, they, especially Mr. and Mrs. Kim, literally smell of poverty. Often as a collective, they perpetrate minor scams to get by, and even when they have jobs, they do the minimum work required. Ki-woo is the one who has dreams of getting out of poverty by one day going to university. Despite not having that university education, Ki-woo is chosen by his university student friend Min, who is leaving to go to school, to take over his tutoring job to Park Da-hye, who Min plans to date once he returns to Seoul and she herself is in university. The Parks are a wealthy family who for four years have lived in their modernistic house designed by and the former residence of famed architect Namgoong. While Mr. and Mrs. Park ... Written by Huggo (Courtesy of Internet Movie Database)
PARASITE (2019) is directed by Bong Joon Ho, written by Bong Joon Ho &Jin Won Han, and produced by Bong Joon Ho, Moon Yang Kwon & Kwak Sin Ae. Having heard this film won numerous awards including best picture I knew it would only be a matter of time till I would get to see for myself what all the noise was about. Upon watching, nothing much struck me as groundbreaking yet I watched on.
As the film progressed I began to disconnect from the group of main characters. I thinking that may have been the reason for my lack of ultimate understanding of the film and I believe it affected my overall affinity for the film.
In the End: PARASITE was an interesting story up to a point, but I do question the point this film was trying to share. So for this film I give it a 3 of 5 stars.
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