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PARASITE
Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, the film combines dark humor, suspense, and striking visuals to create an unforgettable cinematic experience.
Director Bong Joon-ho has created a masterpiece where every frame, every detail, and every line of dialogue contains deeper meanings that help explore the film's main themes: social inequality, class division, and human flaws. In this film, audiences can find numerous Easter eggs and references that make it even more multifaceted.
but a real mystery filled with many hidden meanings with many hidden meanings.
Masterpiece of social satire
Class divide thriller
Layers of hidden truths
SOCIAL DRAMA
of the stone
And when Ki-woo's rich friend visits the Kim family, he brings them a gift - a stone, which he says promises material wealth. In this way, the stone is a symbol of Ki-woo's hope for a reversal of fortune.
We turn to the symbol of the stone, which appears first in the movie, when we meet the Kims. As we watch the family, we realize that they live very poor lives, but Ki-woo believes that his family can find a way out of poverty.
The symbolism
The Kim family's semi-basement home symbolizes their precarious position in society. Semi-basements are common in South Korea and often serve as a last resort for those with limited options. The small window in their home, which lets in a sliver of light, represents hope and the possibility of escaping their current situation.
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They show the gap between the Kim family's house, which is in the lowlands, and the Parks' house, which is on top of the city. Even to go to the toilet, they have to climb the stairs.
The most important and striking metaphor of the movie is the stairs that we see here and there throughout the movie.
Climbing up the ladder symbolizes striving for a better life and climbing the social ladder, while descending, on the contrary, indicates falling and loss of status. Key scenes in the film, such as the moments when Kim's family goes up to Park's house or when they run down the stairs to their flooded house, demonstrate this symbolic meaning.
The movie often uses the image of ladders and levels to show social hierarchy.
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Who are
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Kim's family acts as a parasite to the Parks, “suckling” on them and cheating them out of their money. At the same time, the housekeeper's husband serves as a more literal example, eating the family's food for years, completely unnoticed. The Paks themselves are also parasites, happily (and unnoticed by themselves) living off the labor (and consequent suffering) of people from the lower strata of society. Basically, this leads to the tragedy that the movie ends with.
or confidants is very common and is perhaps a consequence of the fake friendships displayed in elitist culture.
Customers crossing boundaries and acting as if employees are their friends
Paks are emotional parasites. Daya desperately needs someone to understand her, hence her feelings for her tutor. Her son needs a real mother, Young Kyo needs a therapist, and Dong Iku needs a friend. They are rich, but they trust easily and fall for Kim's tricks precisely because their rich lives seem fake - evidenced by Mrs. Park's possible addiction and her constant sleepiness. Although they have money, they are not necessarily “happy.”
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