The Ending Of 'Parasite' Explained | Pop Culture Decoded
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- A review and breakdown of the ending to ‘Parasite,’ the Korean thriller that everyone’s talking about. We analyze all the messaging, symbolism, social commentary, and hidden meanings packed into the film’s ending, and dissect what it all means. Find out what director Bong Joon-ho is really saying in those last few scenes about themes ranging from class to climate change.
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When their house is flooded, the wealth stone floats because it's fake, making it a symbol of false hope - a fundamental theme of the movie.
This is one of the best observations 🙌
But it sinks in the river
Manveerpal Sekhon because the river is not that too deep
@@johlangonzales1128 it doesn't matter if water is shallow or deep. It should float though.
But at last
It sink in river.
So your statement doesn't make any sense
Remember when the mother said the dad would go hiding like a cockroach if he was caught
@Ben ohhh this story's so fking connected but soo amazing
Korean directors are setting the standard sky-high
"If the Parkers walked in right now your father would run away like a cockroach the second they turn the lights on"
Woah wtf ...
D U D E
The fact that the kim's toilet is higher than their living space, exhibits how they're even lower than the sewage system.
I- wow
Well noticed
The key is for us it's "Well noticed" but for poor it's "common sense"
Wat
@@arshadnazir9435 I get it
This is all because Min loved a highschool girl.
well this all could go way better while he still loved a high school girl
@@anamiladze9587 I was being sarcastic when making this comment, but yh he could of.
ikr... where was the bro respect unwritten rule... u don't fall for the same girl......... unless she fine af I guess.. lol
Yea no one talked abt that. Wasn't he colleged aged? And she was a sophomore in high school... a little creepy ngl
@@victoriam438 different culture here in asia m8
The saddest part is the happy ending is fake and the son still living in the poor and doesnt even have way to send the letter to the dad
Good. Let the murderous father rot.
lol why you so affected?
Hueight Lifting Damn who hurt you?
and even though it is the son's plan, his father has always told him that all plans fail, kinda foreshadowing that the son's plans to buy the house and stuff will fail.
Zhia Chen I actually did not understand the ending quite well, at first I really thought that it was true but when I thought about it after seeing the film, I started to question how had he sent the letter to his father, and that’s when it all clicked
*Min comes back from abroad: "ALL YOU HAD TO DO WAS TUTOR THE DAMN GIRL!"
Rian Karlo Punzalan this deserves more attention then its getting lmao
Haha. I always wonder what his reaction would be.
bruh... this should have been included in the movie
Intructions unclear, kissed the girl. Got the father killed.
@@jonh387 instructions unclear: replaced all personnel with my family.
Y'all are forgetting that the rich dad *planned* to do a fake attack on "Jessica" and the plan *didn't work out* the way he intended and she was actually stabbed.
Oh my!
Also it further strengthens the Kim father's statement of having no plan is the best plan, in which its never good to have a plan because nothing ever goes according to plan
@@-zerenity-2322 Murphy's law
Is that why the father killed him?
Jessie Arroyo no i think it was mr.parks constant commentary on his distain for the poor
I feel like the reason why I'm spending hours in this comment section is because I felt like I watched 3 movies in 1 and I'm trying to process everything.
same honestly
Yes This.
I am 700 person who liked this post
I just watched it today.
Same here. I’m considering putting this movie as the BEST one I’ve ever seen!
I love how they foreshadowed that the old housekeeper keeps her husband in the basement when Mr. Park said that the old housekeeper's only downside is that she eats enough food for 2 people.
Cergun omg I gasped when I read this. I just now got it. Wow. This movie is genius
Damn these secrets were right in front of us
i didn't catch that till you mentioned it. wow.
Oh yeah! Thanks
OMG I just realized that!!!
the second i saw the old housekeeper, i felt the bad vibes
Sameeee
yup don't let anyone like that in your house.
Can somebody explain to me why the old housemaid showed up so bruised in the face that one night?? I don't get that
@@jinjoon853 it was because she still had the allergic reaction to the peaches
@@jinjoon853 She also tried climbing a fence to cut off a CCTV/Street Camera's wires off so she won't be detected once she tries to enter the house, she must have had a hard time doing so so she had a few bruises.
The irony when you see the audience at the Oscars giving this film an inordinate applause, unaware it’s subliminally aimed at them.
HAHAHAHAHAHA I--
Ohhh... savage. LOL
99.9% of those people are not the problem.
not even subliminally. they're literally applauding a deconstruction of their wa of life
Lmao didn’t think of that
Min asked Kevin to take tutoring not because he was his friend, he asked Kevin because he thought he was the safest bet. He thought the daughter wouldnt like him because he was poor.
Woah man, these comments just keep getting better
I agree on the safest bet part. But about being poor i dont think it matters because he plagiarized his application so in the eyes of the girl he isnt poor
@@sethreburiano108 realistically it should be the opposite, in which kevin wouldn’t make a move as he was aware of him being poor and the wealth gap, min thought kevin wouldn’t make a move bcz of that
Min's plan also didn't go well like the rest in the movie!
man, that's just heartbreaking to be honest
That shot of Jessica lighting a cigarette on her exploding toilet is mindblowing.
@Harry Hart Yep the contrast between Jessica in the bath "you look so good... you look like you belong there" (quote from the brother) versus the one where she's on the exploding toilet. Also the difference in "mouth" props - wine vs. cigarette (rich vs poor)
Exactly lmao
I thought she was committing suicide. In the clip right before that she was quite angry with the whole situation. So i was confused when i saw her in the next clip in the gym with her family.
Er... "Mind blowing" is a bit over the top to say, but it is very profound.
Also it symbolizes that she has accepted her fate, her situation n later her death. During her death she keeps in saying don't press the wound it hurts, she is smiling n laughing while saying that. There is pain but moreover she has accepted her fate.
You know what's the scariest genre of all : reality
Umm
Umm
heuheuheu hyuk hyuk yes
Umm
heuheuheu hyuk hyuk except the ghost scene where his head is peaking through slightly 😬
Did anyone notice how at the beginning of the movie when the fumigator came, and the fumigation filled the room, the father was the only one unaffected. At the end of the movie he was the only “pest” still left at the Park’s house, as if he was unaffected by the “cleaning” by the realtor sharks?!?
MINDBLOWN DAMN!!!!!
He was another “parasite” at the end..
Why only 300likes
Your explanation deserves at least 20K likes.
What a perception!!!
Holy!!!
When you found out that Jessica(ki jung) , (park so dam )in real life actually studied art and is an art therapist............
RESPEKTTT!!
when you find out that kevin (choi woo shik) is actually quite fluent in English cause he lived in Canada during his childhood years .....
@@kristinabanh RESPECCCCKTT
@@-khushlush RESSSPEKKCT!
@@kristinabanh it just shows they chose the best actors for this movie cause even them can relate to their own characters
That shot of the basement dude peeking over the stairs is easily the creepiest shot I've seen in a film in years lmao
mojambo213 plus him chasing the son knowing he was eventually going to grab the metal bar attached to the end of his noose! Haunting shit.
i would have a seizure too if i saw something like that staring at me
That one got a big laugh from me for sure so I was either amused or really scared.
Why was his eyes bulging out like that?
mojambo213 I looked away as soon as I saw this scene and I am NOT going to rewatch it, so can someone describe to me what the dude looks like in it
This film sums up how most of the world felt after watching and listening to Gal Gadot and other rich celebrities sing “Imagine” while self quarantining in their huge mansions, while the rest of us are wondering if we will still have a job or be able to pay rent after the shut down.
Absolutely! That video was the absolute worst
reality hits us like puberty
DAMN
Yep
yessss!!!! bro when i saw that clip i felt so much hate towords gal gadot and all the rest of them, but i didnt understand why - - -
UNTIL NOW!!!
Parks daughter even carried kevin to safety. The only one who seen past the "smell". 💯
She genuinely liked the guy.
i think it’s just ignorant bliss. children don’t really understand class. the parks son and daughter never viewed the tutors as ‘workers’ but more as friends or companions. that’s probably why the parks daughter never noticed the smell on kevin.
@@kelybear No because the other child felt the smell and I think was the first to point it out actually.
@@acidspittingllama1865 yep. But I'd agree that the dasong didn't view them as workers below him but just how a kid would view adults
So just because a rich guy doesnt like their smell, it gives him right to k+ll him?
It makes him the poor parasite even worse.
The scene with the man peaking from the basement from the kid’s perspective was bone chilling and brilliant. That scene haunts me to this day. The idea of a man watching you from a dark hallway is creepy enough but to experience it as a child? Traumatizing.
@ABISHEK DARJEE omg i never thought about that
And moreover, I wonder what happened to him after the catastrophic death of his father, on his very birthday. Trauma takes so long to heal even with therapy and medication but the poor child had to witness his perfect life crumble and relive that moment for the rest of his life. Chilling.
@ABISHEK DARJEE I don’t think he really grasps classism yet more so that is hella creepy seeing a stranger peak from below. And they depicted his face as a ghost mask from kids POV. The disgust of the poor is whole heartedly the parents
@@rimsha3780 well the mother did say that after having a seizure you only have 15 minutes to get to the hospital before it’s too late. They never ended up making it so I’m assuming he passed away on the day of the party.
@@gemahuerta6475 I wonder what happened to her big sister.
just noticed that in the Kims' house, you have to try to get in the highest place possible to connect to the internet while on the Parks', the internet is working even on the lowest point of their house.
that's genius omg
Omg the symbolism
Nicely spotted!
I didnt even make that connection but that is so true. there is even a line that i think the daughter says stating that the wifi works in the basement
Touche!
Ok, so no one's talking about this..
Park's daughter (Da-hye) is disconnected from her rich family. We see very less of her with her parents, calls her little brother an imposter and so on. And it becomes evident, when her mother doesn't offer her noodles which results into a quarrel between the two.
This strangely correlates to the 'smell' objection of the Park family. Da-hye is the only one who hasn't complained in the movie about 'smell'. Her father, mother and brother, all three at sometime in the movie have complained or got disgusted by the smell of poor people. On the contrary, she fell in love with Ki-woo (Kevin).
I always felt like she was ignored by the rest of the family, hence she had to look for affection elsewhere, i.e Kiwoo.
nice observation. your comment made me think that she might be the only one who doesn't fit in her family, just as Jessica fits more in the rich setting than in her family
@@bonsaiwithluv Yeah
Also how she disregarded Kevin’s concern about not fitting in adds to this
@@bonsaiwithluv exactly. And in the birthday when the chaos gets started, the parks all get injured in some way. The dad with knife, the son has a seizure and the mother faints. But the daughter is pretty okay carring her boyfriend on her back..p
*I just remembered that the old housekeeper wanted to listen in on Jessica and Mrs. Park's conversation about what must have gone wrong with the son. Now it makes a lot of sense why she wanted to be involved.*
I realised that just now.. thanks
@@shamitabangera101 me 2, like she knew that "the ghost " was her husband all alone and wanted to make sure he didn't spill anything on that lol.
Ohhhhhh nice one
OMG TRUEEE
One thing I noticed is that at the end in Kevin’s “dream”, when the rock is returned to the river, it blends perfectly in with the other rocks. This could symbolize Kevin’s idea of blending in with the rich. It makes sense for me especially after he asks Da-hye if he’d fit in with people at the party.
what dream i didnt see anything plz explain
@@kookbun2805 like when he was writing a letter
@@AbeerKDas ya i saw it again i got it thanks
These comments just get better and better
The rock also sinks in the dream, which contrasts with the flooding scene earlier where the rock floats. This shows how detached the dream is from reality.
Imagine living in a situation where the toilet sits higher than you
Shah Habibi I dont have to imagine
And where dirty vomit comes out from it during rainstorm
stop imagining. there are people actually living in that kind of situation. you just need to go out and help them if this film had hit you really hard.
@@gregoriosanjuan6679 shut 👌
I think the shot was intentional. Their living standards was even below toilets.
I’ve seen so many comments saying how all of this could have been avoided if they hadn’t let the old housekeeper in, but why isn’t anyone talking about how if they’d agreed to keep the housekeeper’s husband a secret + leave him food every two days, things would have worked out fine? The Ki family became everything they deplored. Chong-Sook found herself in a position of higher wealth & status than the old housekeeper, yet didn’t live up to her promise of ‘being nicer’ should she have found herself in that position. She was insistent on reporting the old housekeeper to the police. That was her choice. Wealth is the parasite.
You're right. Especially when you say that she acted that way because at that time she was in a superior position. Maybe she wanted to use the opportuny to blame the housekeeper for the mess her own family made around the house. Yet she had no bad conscience snitching her, although her family led the housekeeper to that misery by sneakily stealing their job.
The Electric Oracle you’re right. Really this could’ve all been avoided if things didn’t escalate. They both knew each other’s secrets, so they could’ve just agreed to keep it and lie in peace. Instead they started fighting each other...
The wealth wasn't the issue. The intense self-loathing that had been consuming the older Kims was. The way they lorded their power over the old houskeeper and her husband, the pride they took in sticking to their new jobs - it all stemmed from the deep shame and despair they had been for years feeling as a result of ending up with nothing after their best, most productive years were behind them.
They hated the reflection of themselves those two.
That’s actually a really good point, I didn’t see it that way. I was so horrified at Chong-Sook’s treatment of the old housekeeper that it probably coloured my judgement slightly!
Realistically I don't see her reporting anything to the police. It would unravel way too many things and was all just acting imo. The actual decision that led to escalation was made by the old housekeeper. The whole aftermath felt like a fight about who's nearer at the bottom of society that both lost at the end.
Anyone noticed how there is a foreshadowing to the father’s anger when he grabbed his wife’s shirt when she made the cockroach statement?
Yes... And then he actually ends up hiding like a cockroach...
And how when he did that the wife said if you did that I would kill you, just like she did to the guy in the end
@@cheynaomalley2687 Holy genius. Oh my god
And then when they do come home they literally crawl under the coffee table like a cockroach
Yes, me. And maybe all korean feel father's anger. 😂😂😂
This is the first movie that really left an impact on me. I learned that:
1. I should treat people with respect
2. I've got a lot of good things going for me
3. Strive to understand people
4. Help those who are in need
5. Anyone can be a villain.
You mean... Treat people with... "rEsPeKkKt"?
Do not show discomfort when the person next to you have terrible body odour, you may get stabbed.
True
don't trust anyone easily
@@korean6706 noted
remember when the mom said that they haven't had a birthday party at the house ever since the kid saw the ghost, and as soon as they do it at their house it all goes wrong.
omg...
Damn
that poor child is going to be traumatized for life
You just fucked with my mind bro
That kids is going need some intense therapy
Why is no one talking about how in the beginning min said he trusted Ki-woo to tutor the parks daughter and he would officially ask her out when she went to university then Ki-woo still pursued her and mimicked his lines of officially dating her when she goes to university. Ki-woo wanted to be min that’s why he always followed the mantra of “what would min do” and why he valued the rock so much
Interesting, I didn’t think about that (clearly no one did) made me think about Min’s introduction scene when he scared off the drunk peeing around their window. The father praised Min for being vigorous, somewhat implying to his son that he doesn’t display the same character his father desired from him. Ki-woo also uses the same word “vigor” during his first lesson with the park daughter to prove he is just as capable as Min was to the Park mother. Later on when the drunk returns Ki-woo takes the initiative to shoo him away, at first holding holding the rock.
@@ZEROnoobTOLERANCE wow you're right!
That makes so much sense!
It's like poor people wanting to be rich by imitating what they do. By "Pretending"...
I just realized that when Min and the guy was talking... he emphasized the fact of him needing to pretend in order to be accepted as a tutor
In fact all of them were pretemding...
@@megatronn5816 ki woo while tutoring literally says "be sure to use the word PRETEND twice"
@@donbuddha8341 oh my god
8 months later but I made a small discovery: In the scene when they’re all eating their hearts out at the buffet, the daughter asks her dad where he used to work, and she’s surprised that he used to do all these odd jobs but then he replies “After the bakery went out of business I had to” flash forward later when they’re all in the basement, the man who’s been living there said his bakery foreclosed, and him and his wife ended up taking out loans with the “loan sharks”. I don’t think that was a coincidence !! I think they’re father worked at the SAME small business, once again drawing a parallel between the two families!
I can’t remember the scenes exactly but if anyone has any more information feel free to tell me.
Do you perhaps know what was the symbolism of wife being the hammer thrower. I don't know why but I just don't understand that little detail - it has to have some meaning right?
It is definitely another parallel drawn between the two families, and probs why the father seemed a little more sympathetic to the man in the basement.. but there's also some background to it. The Taiwan cake was a huge hit in South Korea few years back, so there were thousands of small bakery businesses featuring it. Then a TV show did a report on how these bakeries use vegetable oil in their Taiwan cake recipes and painted it as bad and unhealthy. (fyi it is not, adding vegetable oil is pretty standard in a lot of cake recipes) So not long after a majority of these Taiwan cake bakeries went out of business, ofc the owners had hard times. It's a pretty well known story in SK... so it really gave these characters more sense of reality for the audience as well.
@@Stephen7764. i thought about this too and my mind recalled the scene where the husband was at their basement house during the flood we can see him trying to save a frame with a medal in it so the wife probably was a professional hammer thrower back then and the medal belonged to her
edit: i just rewatched it yesterday and the mom was indeed a hammer thrower they even showed a picture of her doing it next to the medal at the very beginning lol how did i miss
@@bequietdontcry4218 she did a hammer throw when they were in the yard
yea cuz the camera even zoomed in to the dad
One thing i also noticed :
When Park's daughter asks Kevin about Jessica and suggests that he may be her boyfriend, he immediately denies and seems kinda nervous about it, making a whole story about meeting Jessica for the first time that day. When comparing both of the girls with flowers, Park's daughter checks Kevin's pulse on his wrist, just like he did on their first class. She then remembers what he had told her about the "heart never lying" thing and leans for a kiss, mistaking his fast pulse for feelings. What I really think is, that his fast pulse is not because he has feelings for her but the fact that he's been lying from the start and feels constantly nervous and pressured on not being caught
But Kevin liked her didnt he
Morpher yes
@@morpher728 i dont think he likes her I think he's trying hard to be like his friend just so he can move up in society as he repeated the exact same thing his friend told him to his family
@@morpher728 I think, at first he did not like her and was trying to woo her so that he can become the son-in-law of this rich family. But at the end, he does have true feelings for her.
craazy.crazy comment. But he ended up liking her tho. Yet good one!
The rich daughter was seen carrying the wounded poor guy who is her bf. That shows young minds are pure and are not corrupted yet...some rich people are not born mean and proud, they evolve too
I found this part of the movie flawed. How come the father could successfully hid himself for a long time the basement when the girl found ki-woo right in front of it with the door wide open? Shouldn’t the authorities have asked her where she found the guy?
@@humairak743 I read somewhere in the comments that the housekeeper's husband dragged the book shelf in front of the door
Humaira Khalid You’ve forgotten that the killer closed the bookshelf, literally straight after he attacks the son
She didnt know his real identity, that he was poor. If she did I doubt she would have carried him out.
@@humairak743 the son told her he was going down 'even deeper' after referring to the party, and he was attacked in the basement in front of the bookshelf, meaning anyone walking down the steps to the wine storage would see him.
“She always ate for two”
mindblown
mindblown
mindblown
holy shit
when was this mentioned?
Another amazing detail is that the sex scene is not there so that the movie has a sex scene. As many people watched the movie with their friends and families, the sex scene was to make us feel the discomfort and awkwardness just like the Kim's family hiding under the table and how we wanted that situation/scene to end as soon as possible.
they all were asleep
@@wordsmith-2232 no they weren't
I did feel uncomfortable watching that scene.
Also they were foreplaying the whole driver and the druggie prostitute having sex which also showed their demeaning attitude towards the driver
omg its so true
This movie doesn’t have a villain nor a hero, they’re all bad and nice in their own ways which is why I love this movie
So nice, it kicked us down the stairs 😂
Villian & Heros IN this Movie Are Humans itself , that is problems are from us and we are only sol. of it
Just people....
Living in a society
Stop commenting guys, I can't like every single one of them
dharani soundarapandian so far the greatest comment
Then dont read go
hahaha relatable af
Give me like please
Ikr? It’s like everyone in the comments is a film or English major haha
I just realized that in the beginning of the movie, the mom comically said “you should’ve brought food” when they received the stone from the son’s friend. This draws a parallel to when Jessica could have brought food to the man in the basement but instead the son brought the stone, causing the following murders.
Nice take on those scenes
Damn nice catch now im so deeply amazed lol
Gabby Kim holy shit
Excellent take
Oh my god
I'm late but did anyone notice how in the Kim's family in the beginning, they have to search for wifi even in their normal room but in the Park's family, they even got signal/wifi in the lowest part of their house, the basement.
true that!
this is literally the top comment 💀
True!!!
And how they stole their neighbor's wifi, then that just sums up the whole entire movie.
Another metaphor or symbolism :
When the poor son said to rich daughter that - do you think he fits in, and says he would go down. She says that - down there in the lawn? He says- lower. What he meant was his life and poverty would degrade further- and it did happen, he lost his sister and father trapped in the basement. He went down-hole further.
He was also hinting that he was gonna pay visit to the other parasites in the basement
Yeah I also thought the same thing. These comments and analysis are so mind-blowing and cool.
The saddest, most mindblowing aspect of the movie is towards the end, where the son writes to his dad starting with “I have a plan..” and proceeds to elaborating his plans on getting his dad out. But more than halfway through the movie they had a conversation at the evacuation center where the father gave him only one advice: “Only one plan ever works out: no plan at all.” And that hit me in the saddest way because we know the son will be working really hard and will be planning hard to get his father out but we know that his dad was right. His plan will never work out.
wow you caught it! mind blown
@altkovac he didn't. And we know this.
@altkovac The achievement of that goal was only a flash-forward fantasy being played out in Kim Ki-woo's mind. His fantasy is shown only to us the film viewers and no one else, not even his father. The following shot of the present-day Ki-woo back in his sub-cellar tenement destroys any glimmer of hope the viewer has of him ever achieving that goal. It's the cinematic language of the Kuleshov effect the film director uses to spell out the outcome of the film.
I don't really think so. The fact of not having a plan is what made the father get locked for years in that basement.
on top of this, the director said it would technically take around 546+ years for the son to make the money to buy the house.
BY FAR the scariest scene to me is when the old housekeeper is running down the stairs and calling out "Honey!" and we have no idea what's down there. While the Kim's are following we're thinking about someone who is dead or nearly dead down there. *That scene breaks all the trust that we had, along with the Kim's, that they were in control.*
It's like we were watching one movie, and the moment that door opens it changes to something completely different. Such a powerful moment
That bit was legit horror movie scary for a couple of moments
@@emikoch5096 EXACTLY. It was such a sudden change. The maid became someone totally different to me
My heart pumpes at the scene.
Avery Piper I thought the Park’s had someone hostage down there, I really didn’t know what to expect but my heart was racing like crazy
Meanwhile Min - "You had one job"
Ahahaha when he will come back he will be traumatised
WOW I just noticed a small detail - notice how the ghost/man was allowed to freely walk from the basement to the garden of the house without a single person noticing him - even when he gets to the garden, with the knife in his hand, the rich are all facing the opposite way, turning a blind eye to the poor ghost/man that now stands amongst them - even the rich girl (Park's daughter) is seen walking downstairs and looking facing the garden door seconds after the ghost/man enters the garden and yet even then she doesnt see him
Its not only until it is too late, when he stabs Jessica, do the rich people notice, it is only until their convenience is turned into inconvenience, the shattering of their safe hierachal bubble, do they finally take notice and acknowledge the poor ghost/man.
Wow
holy crap that's a good observation
i love your observation so much, you drew a really good observation
@@madisonl.607 thank you 😊
THIS IS AMAZING
this is so true though... people only notice when something extreme happens.
In this movie, everyone is the villain at some point.
except the kid?
@@mihawk2774 kid is also bad because he was boyscout member i think he can understand the message but he ignored the message.
I am sorry i am not good at English
@@LoveUA-cam12418 I see
The kid is just pretending
That’s the point
When Jessica was chilling at the bath tub and felt like she belong there. But then the reality hit her the moment when shes chilling and smoking in the dirty toilet. 😭😭😭😭
also when after living in kim's house in luxury for few days when they escape at night and jessica was running on the streets in the rain. that hits too...
She died cause of her obsession and somewhat deserve it
@@harpreetparmar2994 Yo what? Deserved to die because of her obsession with what, exactly? Dude she was about to go give food to the couple downstairs even though she didn't have to. She totally didn't deserve it wtf
GeneTonics they killed the old lady and left the husband to die for what Exactly... the whole family was sycophants but only she got the hard punishment
@@harpreetparmar2994 yeah bro the whole family deserves to be punished
This comment section is actual gold. i too had a mind boggling discovery. that scene when the exterminator comes and the father tells the family to leave the windows open for 'free extermination' for bugs/parasites but has absolutely no difficulty in working through that gas while the others cough.....later he becomes the parasite in the park's house. symbolising he's the parasite that they now can not get rid of, for he is immune to the posion. he can not be gotten rid of. partly because the rich don't even know he is there
underrated comment
He's also compared to a cockroach by his wife, remember?
i love the parallel in the movie. when in the beginning of the movie, the Kim's family was eating stale bread that has bug (parasite) on it, and at the end of the movie in the scene of the party (15:03 on this video), the rich people white bread has their employees blood on it, which is their parasite. GENIUS !
woah...
Good eye on that
Woahhh woahhh
Underrated comment
The picture the boy draw is of the man who lives in the basement.
OMG... and he draws basically the same picture over and over again. Brilliant! That is yet another Easter egg in this masterpiece of a movie.
Wait is it actual?
Yeah I found it when I was seeing the movie
Oh yeah! Especially bc ki-woo is like "oh this is a chimpanzee" and then when we meet the man, he is eating the banana (all weird like)
@@carlahaub5577 you just blew my mind
“ she’s rich and nice” “ she’s nice because she’s rich” , this movie deserves all the attention and awards, the metaphors, the real deep dark meanings and the outlook of different class is amazing.
This is very true. When you're hungry, it changes everything you know about yourself, rich people can't relate much to this..
@Username Ok bootlicker.
My family r not rich but mom, she nice to anyone. Some poor ppl are kind too
Jaymee-Ashley hi 👋
Coming from a third world country where extreme poverty is more prevalent and far worst than in this case-south Korea, i find your observation rather simplistic ✌️.
To say the rich are nice or niceR because they are rich OR the poor are NOT nice or niceR is for me ‘problematic’.
Though I understand that poverty can lead a person to criminal activities just to survive, many rich people do criminal activities as well for whatever reason people deem fit.
I have seen first hand extremely poor people share what little they have.
I have also seen ‘poor’ people do unnecessary crimes because they prefer not to work or whatever reason they dim fit.
What i am saying is ultimately boils down to a person’s value system.
Pitting the rich vs poor can lead to dangerous conclusion.
This video said that the rich were EXPLOITING their staff but this is UNTRUE. Their helper was being paid well and treated WELL. Though Mrs Park was shallow and can be insensitive, It is not the rich’s fault for being rich. Hiring someone and paying them well is NOT exploitative.
The video also said that the poor were fighting against each other. Concluding that it is the rich people’s fault because they WANT to keep the working class divided”. This is UNTRUE as well. Rich people fight against each other as well. People are just people. BLAMING the other ‘ class’ is simplistic, disingenuous and dangerous.
It is the nature of reality that there will always be people on top and at the bottom. History has already shown us how trying to pit classes against each other can lead to dangerous end.
Does this mean nothing can be done to help the poor to improve their lives? Of course not.
It is our social duty to find ways of helping.
Another conclusion of this video ( or the movie) is that it is almost impossible for the poor to improve because the problem is systemic .
I agree to a degree because GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION is SYSTEMATIC in our country.
But i disagree with the conclusion that it is almost impossible for the poor to improve.
Much of the world came out of the ashes and started from zero after the war.
Many of the middle class to the 1% richest came from nothing.
South Korea is a great example of the indomitable human spirit.
Sorry for the long text.
As a mother of 4 whose grandparents were immigrants who came from nothing, it is worrying for me that this Victimhood is spreading in the hollywood and now Asian films.
Having a social conscience is paramount for a healthy society. I would rather the message be positive rather than perpetuate a defeatist Victimhood mentality where we are confined to our circumstances.
Anyway, peace and more power to you ❤️
2pongz True. But that does not justify inhumane behaviors.
It's ironic how Kevin during the scene in their flooded home and shelter, he hugged the stone so much. His father even asked him about it and he says that there's something the stone seems to cling to him so dearly and it's the same stone that almost put him into death. That was the most striking scene for me. For me it represents the reality that sometimes that things that we cling on so dearly might also be the things that will harm us eventually. He holds on to that "false hope" or the stone that it also was used against him.
영화속에서 돌은 희망을 상징하기도 하지만, 돌은 돈이다. 잃지 않고 꼭 껴안고 있어야 한다. 그래야 죽지않고 목숨을 유지할수 있다. 마지막에 자연에 돌을 놓은 이유는 다른사람이 그 돌(돈)으로 또 누군가를 죽이는걸 원하지 않기 때문에. 원래 자연에 있는 돌은 자연으로 돌려 보내는것이다.
In the movie, a stone symbolizes hope, but a stone symbolizes money. You have to hold tight without losing it. That way, you can survive without dying. The reason why I put a stone in nature at the end is because I don't want anyone else to kill someone with that stone. Originally, stone(money) in nature are sent back to nature.
Also the rock is fake since it floats
After reading all these comments i realized indeed this movie is oscar winning movie.
Hats off to the director and his team.
Im so amazed by the comment section damnnn this movie is so deep
Prior to the kid's party, Mrs. Park was seen trying to select a glamorous outfit from her huge closets then it cuts to the scene where a lot of poor people in the evacuation camp were scrambling to get something from the pile of used, donated clothes.
Whoa forgot about that I love how Bong is constantly comparing the lives between rich vs poor without it being so blatant and the story still flowing.
South Korea is developed nation, yet Emergency and despair are the same everywhere in the world.
@@Tan92lfc Seoul & busan are developed. people naturally think that the entire se is developed too but that's not true
Ikr it was sad
I remember that. Thought it at first
I am properly depressed that Jessica died. Honestly it was heartbreaking.
I Hate Snakeu ! why ? Cuz Snakeu You Got No Jams TRUE! she's my favorite character. 😭
Ikr
Jessica is only person who has attitude of the rich and has been said that she belong there.
She died because she is different from the rest of the family.
LOGAN MORGAN omg..... big brain
its so sad. i liked her and da hye both despite of her doing forgery and stuff. i can't get over it.
In the beginning, the Kims looked up on UA-cam on how to fold the pizza box in one-step, suggesting that they are looking for a quick and easy route towards wealth.
Wealth gained hastily will dwindle,
but whoever gathers little by little will increase it.
Proverbs 13:11
The Bible and Jesus's truth seems lopsided, but in the end it will all make sense! Because Jesus is the true Savior and Lord! :)
Aren't we all? 😂
Also remember what that lead to, one quarter of the boxes didn't make it, just like one quarter of both families don't make it through the movie.
@@juggyy5429 dang😳
I didn’t read it like this. They won’t get wealthy by folding boxes. They will just make enough to eat. I thought it was a critique on how much value is placed on productivity and efficiency nowadays. So much so that there are tutorials on how to fold a box.
The most depressing part is the final moment when the son tells his father that he will one day buy the house he lives under so he can simply “walk upstairs” when in reality he just got out on probation, he has no money, no good job, and he’s not in school. It’s a real downer because we all know it’s never gonna happen and he may surely die in that bunker....alone.
outside of the father having a heart attack or becoming crippled so he can't move, I would think the father (with how cunning they all were beforehand) would undergo a new alias and alter his appearance to re emerge into society. I don't know how hard it would be to use a forged identity for a bit to make some money and live somewhere? I know its depressing to think he just dies in the hole waiting to be reunited with his wife and son but that doesn't seem consistent with the resourceful people they were before for survival.
@@freddytheplatypus826 the dad could wait out the statute of limitations, and on his way out steal some jewelry to give him a kickstart on his new life. He wouldn't even need a new identity, although I'd want one in his situation.
@@freddytheplatypus826 he could, but honestly i doubt he ever will. his children were the ones that planned and schemed everything, he just went along with whatever they told him to do. he relied on his kids and false hope for all that, so i don’t think he’d be able to make it out of that basement, especially after he said that plans never work out and in their case, they didn’t. it’s depressing but i think it fits with the theme of story and is more realistic.
Why didn't he escape from the house even when the new owners are busy .
@@PraveenSh1 he killed someone he can’t just walk out without being taken away from his family.
I am too late but i just noticed something..
The pizza delivery girl said that one out 4 boxes are defective..there were 4 members in the family and one got rejected/removed in the end
holy shit
i will never be done with this movie now
OMG I DIDNT EVEN REALIZE
Why are you only getting 90likes lolol thank you so much
i don't get it...
"A rich pet lives a better life than a poor human"
At the scene where the families were fighting to get a hold of the phone with the video, the 3 dogs from the Park family came in from the background. While they were fighting the dogs went about their way and ate up the scraps on the floor. Even the dogs of the rich profit from the strife of the less fortunate and were oblivious to the struggles that were taking place
@Default Name someone sounds but hurt but I hope you eventually realize how hard it is overcome a state of helplessness as a poor person there is not a lot of opportunities for them to achieve anything so they have to settle for things that can only allow them to survive
@@aabriahchapman8546 Nothing to do with dogs bud, you good?
@@pillbox4370 bud are you cause i was obviously responding to the reply genius
i think some of yall are reading way too deep into it. theyre just dogs 😕
@@ana-do5dx Not just dogs 🙄 Dog = God backwards and the best of friends for humans even when humans are cruel.. dogs are way loyal and loving than human trash. Dogs are also useful and the best social animals/companions.
Did anyone notice that everyone in the poor family is actually talented somehow in what they are supposed to do for the Parks (even if they are somewhat faking it)? It is like saying: „Even if youre talented...If youre born in the lower class, your talent means nothing. It wont get you anywhere.“
Late but it's because in reality it's not what you know but who you know.
if this was a book, it would be every english teacher’s dream
the symbolism, the climax, the ending, this screams socratic seminar
LOL
I don’t think a book would’ve embodied this movie as well, especially with the smooth camera movements, the montages, and the music. This is a film teacher’s dream for sure.
I would love to have a socratic seminar about this movie. None of my friends or family are into film like me
ROBLYN Castelo • I think it’s fine to not like the movie, cuz it’s your opinion, but this movie doesn’t just reflect the life of only South Koreans too. Even if “hierarchy” isn’t forced upon people, it’s a thing that’s inevitable. You can see it. And the feelings and actions portrayed in this movie are to show that people always get some kind of annoying thought or feeling in them because of how they’re treated, and the thoughts and feelings take over them, causing them to make bad actions. No one in the movie is technically good or evil because of this. It’s just how society works, and the movie is basically revealing that this kind of problem can’t really be fixed in reality. It’s like a sad truth
It’s ok guys ROBLYN Castelo doesn’t have the mental capacity or ability to look further into the film rather than what’s presented on the surface.
The actor who plays Kim Hi-taek is beyond talented. To be able to show so much anger, disgust and embarrassment in such a blank face is amazing
Which person was that? I can't remember names well lol.
Matthew Perez I think the father i.e. the driver
*Ki-taek
the face he makes when he pulls the “bloody” tissue from the trash (peach scene)... impressive acting indeed haha
That actor Song Kang-Ho is legendary actor in korea. And also he did many movie with Bong. Especially The Memories of Murder!!! MUST SEE
Another thing that struck me was how in the end, the son talks about his plan to liberate his dad from the basement which harkens back to their conversation in the gym about how no plan ever really works. That's how I knew that there wasnt any hope and this was a sad sad ending.
@Default Name in the context of the movie the plan wont work
I remember when park seojoon(ex tutor) said at the beginning "they're all kind but there is something odd in that house" something like that
I can only imagine how Min would react after he comes back from his abroad trip and learns about the whole incident
He'd be like you had one job dude! (I forgot the son's name)
Da seong
@@hootowl905 he's not talking about parks , he's talking about kevin
To be honest, at the end I would have loved a reaction shot of Min
seherling it would've ruin the artistic style of the movie
Through out the film, you only see the rich walking "up" the stairs.
While you only see the poor walking "down" the stairs.
Very subtle but profound symbolism.
Not true! Ki-woo was running upstairs when he escaping from hoon when he was chasing him with the rock
@@lorenzo4819 He didn't reach tho 😅
Yeah and he couldn’t survive. Remember he asked the chick he was “tutoring” if she could ever see him living a fancy life like them? Them as in the people in the party. He never made it
Before Da-hye finds ki-woo with his head smashed in, she walks down the stairs
Mr Kim goes up the stairs with Mrs Park during the peach montage.
I also think that when the mother Kims said “she is nice because she’s rich” and indicated that if she were rich she would also be nice. when she later goes down to the basement with the old housekeeper she is not nice or helpful although she claims not to be needy, therefore denying her poverty.
Yes! Someone finally mentioned this! It shows how being rich or poor isn't truly the root of someone's kindness.
Also did you noticed that right after she said that she pushes away the dog who just wants to lick the food off the floor
@@LuckyVarma11 Exactly!
At that moment she was "rich". She was in the house, had the luxery goods of the parks family like the whisky, etc.
@@LuckyVarma11 Asian poor people always say their life is cheaper and lower than rich people's dog.remember Jessica eats dog's food beef jerky? In korea, beef was super super expensive. That's why the mother dislike the dogs, because their life quality is better than hers.
Something not so deep, but also how they get an "english" version of their name as soon as they enter the household community, like almost a requirement. It reminds me of how in some parts of the US people get mad at immigrants/tourists for not speaking english.
@Default Name it isn’t that easy to learn the language when you are immigrating for survival. it also isn’t a requirement, so nobody should get mad at you for not speaking the native language.
They literally had to give them brand new identities so that they could fit in in this new environment. Because despite the titles and education that they seemingly had, they still were viewed as 'less' than the Parks.
@Default Name Although it would be easier on the immigrants, nowhere is it a requirement, even in immigration forms for legal immigrants, to speak English in America. Many countries have an open mind to people who speak different languages and accomodate this since this isn't the 1950s. I assume you were responding to the last part of her statment?
The Parks also had a thing for America in general. When they made regards to the son's tent (if it would withhold the weather or something like that), they said that it's from America, as if they were praising it.
So true omg
'No art teacher lasts longer than a month' A foreshadowing to Jessica's inevitable death
dang
omg
that’s not really “foreshadowing” in the tradition sense since it’s subliminal, but I know what you mean
Stfuuu omg
Dark magics teachers in Hogwarts have the same problem
Y'all! just realized why Da Song liked Jessica when in fact all of his previous teachers can't handle him. Dahye mentioned that Da Song was just pretending to be 'smart' 'artistic' or any at that matter and he liked Jessica for the same reason that Jessica was also pretending to be 'smart' and 'artistic'. So at some point they understand each other very well. Birds with the same feather flock together indeed.
Idk if this correlates but when Jessica gets hit for the first time, Da Song was also right behind her and also gets hit with the same impact, causing both of them to fall down and both families rushing to save them.
@@cateIeya wasn't she stabbed tho? And didn't the boy faint because he saw the same "ghost"?
JB omg rightt
YES OMG
Also he asked the daughter to write pretend twice
The ex driver wasn’t good either when “Jessica” said she wanted to be dropped off at a station he insisted until she said she had a boyfriend waiting for her
he was just tryna be nice tf..
@@user-iy7zs9go8t watch the scene again
@@user-iy7zs9go8t no he was creepin
@@user-iy7zs9go8t No he wasn't. He was being pushy.
He was pushing to have her ride the car just in case she was being shy about it. The reason he stopped insisting wasn't because of her boyfriend but because of her angry tone.
The party is the darkest part of the movie on the brightest day
Just thought of this. The mother was talking about how the boy was traumatised by seeing a ghost on his birthday and ever since that birthday they have always gone out of the house for his birthday. The one birthday they decide to do at the house again the man/ghost shows up.
Damn irony
Whoaaa!!!
And also father's death day.
I knew immedietely that shit would happen when the mother said shes going to throw a party at home
I knew it yeah
Fun fact: the rich guy explain that the old maid eat two meals. Because the meal will be given to the guys in the basemant
Nice catch.
omg!
Oh snap!! :D
no, not really... The maid literally said in the movie that she bought the food with her own salary for her husband buttt idk y'all maybe she just loves food
u4iugh she could have been lying to make herself seem more noble or something.
Min and Madam had an affair.
Koreans have subtle lines that they understand.
When he first describe madam, he said "Young and Simple" and then
subtitle "I had fun there"
but It can be interpreted as a double meaning.
"Yeah...I liked her".
This is not a simple description, but it can be taken as a meaning of reminiscing about happy moments in the past.
and during the tutor interview, Madame said, "I was very satisfied."
After tutoring, she paid more money because "inflation"
But in fact, the money is taken out of the envelope and paid.
that mean she paid "additional salary" to former tutor
Maybe why the husband didnt love her
@@hamza5106i couldn't get evidence of husband not loving her
I just realized something-during the flood, the son stared at the rock that the rich friend gave him because he realized that it was fake when it floated. However, he still felt like the rock “clung to him” and carried it around because even when he knew there was no hope he still valued the rock and couldn’t help but lie to himself. When the dad told him that he didn’t have a plan because plans don’t work out in the end, he went down to the basement with the rock to give to them because they didn’t know it was fake and could still have hope. So the fake rock symbolizes lost hope. I know that was long and no ones probably gonna see this anyway but yeah haha
since the rock was fake, it was fake hope/false hope
no! i totally get it. i’m a year late, but this is super clever. great job 👏🏽
As kevin said that he will make everything right i thought he might have carried it to kill the man in the basement
I think her saying “the rain last night was a blessing” really summed it up for me
xd memes agreed👌
Blessing for her but disaster for others 😞
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@My Thoughts I don't see how the specific storm in the film would be a blessing for farmers. Because that amount would just destroy half of the crops and weaken the rest
@My Thoughts I have no idea how you watched the storm in the movie and even mention farms, like jin jun said, that would definitely not help farmers in ANY way, as too much water would still ruin them.
Also about your global warming point, I hope you are kidding as global warming is not just ice turning into grass, that's ridiculous. Multiple european countries have reached peak heat last summer, the Netherlands was also close to breaking the record from 1944 but LUCKILY did not break it. The fact that a country that is cold almost broke a heat record set in 1944 in 2019 is ridiculous. Then there's the australia fires, so no, it's not just some lands flooding and cold turning into grass. It's cold country becoming insanely hot in the summer and the weather going insane, like snow in February, and countries that are already hot either flood or turn into big fire storms like Australia. All of these options are awful, and are already happening all over Europe, Asia and Australia.
Towards the end when the daughter is carrying her boyfriend while the parents don't give a damn about the rest refers to the fact that a new generation doesn't need to be as the previous one. There is still hope to be better and not be like your parents.
I love this comment. It gives hope to the otherwise negative theme of the “evil rich”.
Or the girl actually had romantic feelings for the boy whereas the parents had no care in the world. Not everything has to be over-analyzed.
@@anonomyss This is a film that is meant to be analyzed, this is a video that's 15 minutes long that's analyzing it. This movie is brimming with meaning.
The kid did asked her do I fit in this settings and you can clearly tell she didn't care , she liked him as he was
That just to show us we can be better then our previous generation
The small spot of hope in the darkness world of social classes
What makes "Parasite" so perfect is that it understands the rules and power of storytelling. Everything on screen has a specific purpose and a meaning that transforms the story as it unpacks.
Just saw the movie so a bit late to the party. However, now I realize this is also saying that this is a cycle and will continue. How the dad said another rich oblivious family moved into the house, they’re just like the Parks. The father replaced the last man, and as the son goes off to university like Min. This leaves the mother in a situation she needs a job, she could (after finding out her husband is still alive) try to see if the new homeowners need a housekeeper and the cycle of poverty repeats. WASH, RINSE, REPEAT.
Ya... Great observation
Woah it can definitely happen
The whole comment sections is filled with A+ Students in English.
😂🤣🤣🤣yeah
truee its all giving me revelations
And with great observation too!! Great IQ
I swear. I thought I was the only one who watched the movie without trying to find hidden themes or any of that shit. Lmao
lol😂
You should also mention how Park praises his workers who "don't cross the line." This can be seen as a metaphorical line between the rich and the poor.
Yeah also the line represents human dignity.
When the Park family returned from camping they only gave 8 minutes of notice to the Kim Mother. 8 minutes is not enough time to cook. They could have told her 1 hour early the very least.
In a sense while Kim family tried to cross the social class line, Park family kept crossing basic human dignity line. Treating them as if they were just tools to be used. That's why Mr. Kim killed Mr.Park, he crossed the line with his indifference while a person was dying right in front of him.
Wow people really try to read into this film way too much. Youre like jessica bullshitting Mrs Park. The father is Mr Parks servant. He msut show respect.
@@simonmccross16 Mr park wanted his keys to drive to the hospital and save jessica. ? For some reason kim stabbed park then. Did i misunderstand something? I thought kim just froze and snapped.
@Samuel Runt Thats what i thought, which is a pretty hugely unjustifiable reason to kill someone.
If thats the case, the kim family is thrash to me. If its because park wont drive jessica to hospital, then its redeemable for mr kim.
@@anonanon8447 About your first comment, they mentioned this line multiple times throughout the film. If it did simply mean that a servant should show respect, I don't think they would have referenced it as much as they did. Also, this takes place in modern day. There is not really a concept of "servant," the point of the entire film is to show that the rich do not view the lower classes with dignity, as PEOPLE. Not servants, but PEOPLE.
As for your second comment. Mr. Park first told Mr. Kim to leave Jessica and drive them to the hospital for Mr. Park's son! And when he didn't get up, he then told him to throw him the keys. Mr. Park had no intention of saving Jessica's life. None of the rich people did. They only cared about the Park son who had fainted.
I love this comment section but I have a question. Did anyone notice that on the wall of the Kim's basement apartment there was an Olympic silver medal next to a picture of Mrs. Kim playing tennis? Also, how did Ki-woo and Min know each other? They're supposed to be classmates but it just surprises me that they went to the same school because of the social class difference. This stuff kind of makes me believe that the Kim's weren't always so poor and there was a fall from grace that occurred but I'm not sure.
Yes you got a point
I saw that medal but i didnt know it was an olympian medal and i didnt even notice the picture of Mrs. Kim playing tennis! I think you're onto something about a fall from grace, after all the Kims did use to run a business or two in the past but ended up poor due to economical circumstances.
I thought Mrs. Kim did hammer throwing
That's what I thought too. How come they know a rich acquaintance
@@dionysustheoryopagite2722 And because of his business failures he stopped making plans.
Ki-woo said the stone is literally clinging onto him
And in the end he was nearly killed by that stone
So in a way if he didn't carry the stone none of it would have happened
Not really, the dude from the basement can easily overmatched him because of his raging anger from his dead wife, he can just punch or knock ki-woo and continue to stab Jessica anyway
Do you remember when old housekeeper cuts of camera wires to get into the house, at that moment she
unconsciously helped Kim to get away after the party, the key moment for me in the movie
omg yeah
uh duh
i started reading your comment but ended up singing September
I didn’t get it
Excellent 🙏🙏
I’m Korean and a lot of people in Korea talked about how unpleasant and uncomfortable they felt after watching this movie and that’s why they didn’t like it so much. I think it’s because this movie brought up the fact and the reality that no one actually wants to face. Sometimes the reality can be very harsh but that doesn’t mean we can always put it aside. I’m glad Mr.bong made this movie and gave us food for thought while everyone just watches just fun/exciting stories that most of people can’t relate.
well, that's korea for you. covering everything up with grandeur and make-up and plastic surgery to feel better about themselves. sad reality is, its not only in korea but in different parts of the world.
Something similar happened in México with Roma. A lot of people started to hate Yalitza Aparicio because she is from a poor family and now is famous and she can help her people.
Even the movie helped to improve the labor conditions of the women who work as maid. But as I said, a lot of people here started to hate her and blame the movie because It expose the reality in México about the abuses who suffer the poor people.
(Sorry if my English Is bad)
Everyone wants Happy ending. But life is one mean nasty reality we need to accept. Trust me I am in India.
Lol what are you on about, most Koreans love the film and proud how well it is doing- it is a well known fact that many of the best selling Korean movies nowadays like to criticize politics, society and what not.
Tarte they felt uncomfortable coz they’re so pampered with all the shallow kdrama series. 🤷🏻♂️
i feel like a lot of people missed the huge foreshadowing of the birthday party fight. ms park told the housekeeper to set up the tables like the old indian tribe war battle. directly foreshadowing the blood war of the party
I never expected the movie to turn into this when I started watching it..
" It doesn't matter what will happen next. Even if the country gets destroyed or sold out, nobody cares."
This by far is the most heartbreaking dialogue of this movie for me.
very interesting, with italian subs he says "even if you kill someone, even if you betray your own contry". That is why he said "I'll take care of this" and he tried to kill the parasites.
Fun fact: that painting in the house is actually that creepy guy from underground
Holy...
@@farhanainjan746 the one that kid drawn
Yeah, the bottom corner of the painting Jessica mentions that it is the kid's boxed in trauma. It's actually the kid drawing the basement guy.
WTFFF????
WOAH
I love the part where the rich kid's "toy" tent is so durable and MADE IN USA (lol..) that he can hang out in it and casually spend the night when the weather is pouring outside. Meanwhile, the poor people who have "real" homes, at the bottom of society, get their only homes ripped apart from the same pouring rain.
America (tents, Illinois, "know what I mean",...) is just the next house up the hill. Even the rich can't help looking up.
they use westernisation to also promote their own wealth. The west is a symbol of prosperity to them
I didnt notice that symbolism. Thanks for sharing.
All the references to English are also tied into this. The son being an English tutor, the rich mom randomly throwing in English sentences etc. In Korea it's a huge deal for upper class families to send their kids to study abroad and learn English so they can get better jobs. It's an advantage poor families can't afford to give to their children and so English is seen as a status symbol in Korea.
So what rich ppl had to do with poor ppl...?? They r rich they can afford it.. I don't understand it..
I love how almost every significant event in this movie is foreshadowed
The part where the Kim's are drinking in the Park's house when they are out on the camping trip: Kevin notes out that Jessica is the only one who looks like she belonged there, while in the ending scenes Jessica is the only one who could not be in the house after Kevin buys it out. Capitalism and repression.
Wow I didn’t even catch that
Kevin never buys it. He cannot buy it. Kevin was making plans to buy it but his father had already told him that plans don't work.
And there is also a shot of Kim in his basement that solidifies the fact that he can never get his father out.
Jessica was the only one in the poor family who had potential to break out of the lower class and maybe even be rich (because let's be real, she was very clever and fit in with the rich), but she is the one from the poor family that is killed. Shows how the lower class will never break out of this poverty cycle. Also, it is important to note that she was killed by a lower class man (the basement guy), which shows how the poor fight with each other and tear each other down.
He never bought the house and never can
Why isn't anyone talking about the mother's gesture of kindness where during the party she tries to send food in the basement thinking they'd be hungry.
She is a nice lady but a victim of poverty, she quoted that if she was rich , she too would have been nicer. She even did the household chores well and fed the Parks family well...shows her sensitivity.
Its confusing though, because she kicked the former housekeeper down the stairs, then wanted to send food down to them.
@Weird Drew I will have to watch it again. I'm sure I may have missed a few things.
@Weird Drew No, not at at all. ;-) We're all good.
Notice too that she gets interrupted by the rich family coming down and talking with them. I think this represents that any act of solidarity between the working class is stifled by them wanting to impress the rich and succeed in life, not wanting to give up their own position to help the others worse off.
It touched me when the woman on the backseat said "its good that it rained yesterday" sitting behind the driver whose house literally was flown away by the water from "yesterday's" rain.
I actually laughed hard at this scene when the driver looks at her like "what an asshole she is to enjoy that rain"
Yash star laughed?? bruh i was just thinking about how much of a privileged asshole i probably am
What an asshole Kim is to scam the rich family, sneak into their house and steal liquor and food, not to mention even breaking the glass cups and giving a shit, and then kill the rich owner for no good reason; yeah right Kim family got what they deserved
I think that’s strange because it’s no one’s fault that the rain flooded their home. However, The Park’s house is up higher therefore the rain would have never flooded their home. But the Kim’s house is basically underground so they got flooded. The flood is also another motif to their opposite arrangements. Nothing happens to the rich but the poor get the short end of the stick.
Silo Green It’s also about climate change because the poor are the most affected.
What surprised me the most was that the ex-housekeeper and new housekeeper didn't make a deal to form an alliance.
Notice how Jessica was trying to reach an understanding with the man in the basement and make peace with him by giving him food, but she got distracted with the Park's party which ultimately led to her death, ALSO by the man in the basement. She went along with the Parks to protect her family and the man in the basement while doing so, but she ended up paying the price instead.
The movie starts being so bright and funny even at the economic situation they are at, that you don't expect it to get that dark and deep. Is amazing.
the vibe changed halfway and i wasnt laughing anymore.
i feel like the vibe gets darker and darker as they realize how big the gap really is between the quality of life is between them and the pro family
How is it funny?
@@tillykitchen4683 Because at the beginning it's more dinamic, they are more jokes and laughs, the economic situation doesn't seem as serious as it does as the movie keep going.
@@tillykitchen4683 there's a lot of comedic scenes. Even in the second part, only with the atmosphere being so different that you don't laugh anymore.
I spent like half an hour just looking at these comments, this movie is like a bottomless pit when it comes to realisations and hidden messages. One of a kind film.
Agent Music I been scrolling enough to find your comment and I'm in the same predicament
Agent Music nah not one of a kind but very rare, just watched fight club for the first time and I too found my self endlessly scrolling through comments
For real
If you love these kinds of films with hidden messages, check out "Eyes wide shut"
Me rn 🐵
this comment section gives me so much hope. i'm glad people are still dissecting film and love good storytelling the way that i do
honestly the best comment section on UA-cam. Been on UA-cam for almost 10 years and never seen people explaining and the best part is no one is hating on others at all.
Internet as it should have been
Dear Hollywood, NO REMAKE AND REBOOT! Please leave Parasite alone. This movie is perfect. End of story
*Hollywood exec* "ah yes, it is perfect... perfect for an American adaption!"
@@johnrivers3813 no need for an American adaption, as there are plenty of movies that share the same message
This comment section should be in the end credits of the movie
Agreed omg everyone is so observant
No it shouldn’t, if he has to tell you what he tried to show you, the movie was pointless. People figuring it out for themselves is what makes it a masterpiece
They ate smart af
4:42 am 6.20.20
@@themysteriousdude757 calm down that was a joke
😂