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Parasite (2019)

Director:
Bong Joon-ho

ORIGINAL TITLE
기생충

NORWEGIAN TITLE
Parasitt
COUNTRY
South Korea
GENRE
Dark Comedy/Thriller
RUNNING TIME
132 minutes
Producer:
Kwak Sin-ae
Moon Yang-kwon
Bong Joon-ho
Jang Young-hwan
Screenwriter:
Bong Joon-ho
Han Jin-won


Cast includes:

CHARACTER ACTOR/ACTRESS RATING
Kim Ki-taek Song Kang-ho
Kim Ki-woo Choi Woo-shik ½
Kim Ki-jeong Park So-dam ½
Chung-sook Chang Hyae-Jin
Park Dong-ik Lee Sun-kyun ½
Yeon-gyo Cho Yeo-jeong ½
Park Da-hye Jeong Ji-so ½
Park Da-song Jung Hyeon-jun -
Gook Moon-gwang Lee Jung-eun ½
Geun-sae Park Myung-hoon ½

 

Review

South Korea's leading filmmaker Bong Joon-ho (Memories of Murder, The Host, Mother) shows off his flair and skill once again with his latest entry Parasite. This is an enormously evocative film which creates (and leaves behind) various moods and atmospheres on its way through the inventive, but nevertheless fairly predictable plot which twists and turns in somewhat gimmickry ways. Watching Parasite for the first time is like watching a really clever movie for the second time: you know what will unfold, but you're still quite amazed by the audacity and skill of the presentation. Whether or not you enjoy Parasite on a meta-level, however, will arguably depend on to what degree you make any use of Bong Joon-ho's dab at East-Asian social classes anno 2019. These are not arguments that present themselves logically; they are offered through the absurd behaviour of the movie's two conflicting families – none of whom are sympathetic, even though Mr. Bong ultimately asks us insistently to care for them.

Copyright © 30.01.2020 Fredrik Gunerius Fevang

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