Hello everybody! Welcome back to my
channel that I haven't uploaded in for a
little while but here I am today, I saw a
movie that just inspired me in such a
way that I knew I had to review it here
on my channel. So that's what we're doing
today. I'm coming to you today from not
from my house obviously I'm in the
studio
where I work one of the studios. I might
be filming more from the studio just
because it's a little bit more relaxed
of an environment here on the weekends
then coming to you from my share house
which gets very busy and loud and noisy
and distracting on the weekends.
"Parasite." When I first heard the name
parasite I assumed this was a horror
film. Now this film does have
horrifying elements but it is not as
such a horror film, no this is more of a
sort of slow burn family drama with a
little bit of super black black black
comedy like sprinkled over the top.
This is written and directed by Bong
Joon-Ho the brilliant the brilliant
mastermind behind films like Snowpiercer
which I really loved,
Okja which I didn't so much love it
just wasn't quite for me the the
satirical tone of it was a little bit
too wacky for me but I did appreciate it
and his other films like The Host and
Mother incredible. I'm truly a huge fan
of a Bong Joon-Ho's work so when he has a new film coming out regardless of
whether or not people are calling it a
masterpiece all the way around and it's
winning prizes at the Cannes Film
Festival earlier this year which it did
I of course was just holding my breath
with excitement to see it. The film is
about this down-on-their-luck family
mother, father, daughter, son the four of
them are you know yeah they're not doing
so well in their day-to-day lives
they're not living in the nicest part of
town but when they come across an
opportunity to work for a family in a
really nice neighborhood, a wealthy
upper-class family of course they're
going to seize this opportunity with
both hands. So one of the family members begins working in the wealthy household
then recommends their sibling, the
sibling recommends their parent and the
parent recommends that other parent and
before you know the entire family is
working within the household. The way I
described it is way to normal and
mundane because this film has a lot of
twists and turns and kind of unfolds in
a way that you wouldn't expect, it's kind
of one of those rides that you just have
to hold on keep your arms and legs
inside the carriage and just hold on for
dear life. As the story evolved and
the family have to do more and more in
order to secure their placement within
the wealthy family's home, yeah things
just take a crazy crazy turn and I would
say this genre kinda takes a shift into
the next gear and you have to be on
board for the ride because the story
went in a way that I did not see coming.
What is so great about this film is
first and foremost the characters each
of the characters every single family
member of both the poorer family and the
family with more money, they're all so
incredibly human. It's not just that
there is one family with less money and
one family with more money and they're
kind of polar opposites of each other.
Each of them have personalities there's
no stereotyping here, they all have so
many layers they all are imperfect
in their own way, for example the rich
father is kind of arrogant and aloof and
cold he's easy to dislike but he does
have his moments of vulnerability later
on and you do see that he is a good
person. There's a scene earlier on in the
film where the son that Kevin has some
documents forged to say that he's a
college-educated tutor when he's not and
the father is so impressed with the sons
like tenacity and the quality of these
forged documents. He's really genuinely
proud of his son in this moment and it's
really quite touching so even though the
family are all in on this sort of
deceitful hoodwinking of the wealthy
family, they have you know they're just
looking out for each other and they're
just trying to do the best that they can.
And it's moments like these squeezed
between that necessity of survival and
having to put food on the table that make
the film like so touching and also
really bleak and and sad as well.
There you have a guys they are my thoughts on
Bong Joon-Ho's latest brilliant film
"Parasite" certainly right up there with
one of the best things I've seen all
year. It is so beautifully done with such
a light touch in the places that you
want a light hand and then it kind of
goes really really super crazy and is
very like visceral as a film as we go
later on and it yeah
leaves you just... I was probably like
shaking my head a lot and doing this
face a lot yeah a lot. Don't forget you
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