Best movie of this year!!! Must see it
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When "Parasite" debuted in Korea after the Canne film festival, over 10 million people, one out of five Koreans, watched it. It clearly shows how rich people "live," while poor ones "survive" in a society of modern capitalism, spearheaded by the United States (look at what Donald Trump says and does since 2015 !).
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With Awards season looming in the US it will be fascinating to see how this brilliant film will be treated and whether the Academy will embrace Bong Joon Ho’s scathing critique of class division.
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I saw "Parasite" today. In the bold spirit of "Okja" and "Snowpiercer," there are masterstrokes of originality throughout.
The perspective on classism is neither browbeating nor academic. I appreciate how the director allows the viewer to think for themselves about the characters. (And there is indeed much to think about. )
I also enjoyed how it took me places that I wasn't aware were coming!
I'm no expert, but I can't quite think of another film to compare it to. And that's a good thing, in my book.
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A stellar review and engrossing, while filling this reader with a sense of trepidation when all is not what appears to be. It also brings to mind how long during this role reversal, will it take for the victims of the above to be ticked off. By the sounds of it, probably too late as is usually the case, and enjoyed the director's insecticide twist of letting choking fumes of toxic air infiltrate the lingering vestiges of free space.
It may be a very pleasant house, but anything but 'home sweet home'.
Thanking Manohla Dargis for this introduction to the work of Bong Joon Ho, and when next eating a radish, it will have a dab of butter and be heavily salted.
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"Rated R for class exploitation..."?? Have all moviegoers become snowflakes?
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@Greg
The ratings blurbs in the NY Times are written by the reviewers -- and in this case is probably more than a little tongue in cheek.
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briliant use of family, comedy and production design ...How we sort ourselves into isolated bunkers though we say were doing it for the family or the kids
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Habitual hyperbole has turned movie reviews into performances of their own.
If viewers really expect to learn something about class struggle from this movie, they'd do better reading the comments to a David Brooks op-ed, or from any account of the fate of North Korean defectors in South Korea, also to be found in these pages.
For the rest, this movie is an intentionally farcical reworking of a European art-house genre: the bourgeois household under assault from the striving lower orders (if missing the sex).
As conceived, of course, by rich people with everything to gain. Such as a Palme d'Or, awarded by other rich and famous people.
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@jrd
Huh. You sure you saw the same film I did?
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@Gregory E Howard
I expect we saw the same film, but I've seen its precursors and you apparently haven't: everything from "Boudu Saved from Drowning" to "Teorama" to "The Servant", as well as related South Korean films (for example, the 1960s "The Housemaid" and the remake of a few years ago).
In context, this film is neither original nor particularly compelling. Of course, if you're coming to it unfamiliar with what's politely called "cinema", it may seem new and unusual.
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Best film of the year -- in any language.
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Saw this film; it is utterly brilliant (and unsettling) on so many levels. GO. SEE. IT.
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