All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.
Parasite to me, is undoubtedly the best movie of 2019, and is now one of my favorite movies of all time. From the mind of visionary director Bong Joon Ho, Parasite is a Korean Social Thriller about a poor family that cons their way into leeching off a rich one, and from this relatively simple premise comes a masterpiece of the highest order about social class, and the nature of man. There have been a lot of great movies this year with social commentary, but none do it to the masterful levels of Parasite; the movie is a film-lover’s feast on every level, seeing as it functions as a comedy, drama, thriller, horror and a social commentary, hooking the audience with its vivaciously entertaining first act, making us wince with the extremely tense and unnerving second act, and making us think and reflect with its timely, and dramatic third act. The movie is a inscrutable masterwork of cinematic brilliance, holding mirror to capitalism, greed and the psychology of money. The film has had relevance to me from beyond the movie screen, and has not only affected the way I treat people, but has also affected the way I see the desire for material things, challenging my perhaps ill-conceived notions of our economic system. Parasite entertains and jests, but it never shies away from thematic potency, reminding the audience that despite our best efforts, human beings have and will always have a latent naturalistic desire for dominance and power.
