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- Parents need to know that Parasite is a brilliant social satire from acclaimed South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho (Snowpiercer, The Host). It's alternately funny, shocking, and thoughtful, but it's also quite mature.
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Sep 7, 2019 · It is a tonal juggling act that first feels like a satire—a comedy of manners that bounces a group of lovable con artists off a very wealthy family of awkward eccentrics. And then Bong takes a hard right turn that asks us what we’re watching and sends us hurtling to bloodshed.
Oct 10, 2019 · Bong Joon-ho's brilliant new movie is a darkly comic thriller about the intersection of two South Korean families: one very rich, the other very poor.
Parents need to know that Parasite is a brilliant social satire from acclaimed South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho (Snowpiercer, The Host). It's alternately funny, shocking, and thoughtful, but it's also quite mature. Expect a few scenes of extremely strong violence, blood, and gore, with…
- Joon-Ho Bong
- Jeffrey M. Anderson
- Kang-Ho Song, Park So-Dam, Choi Woo-Sik
Feb 7, 2020 · With Parasite, a horribly delicious black comedy, the South Korean director Bong Joon Ho ( Okja) gives us the bits of the upstairs-downstairs dynamic that Downton Abbey scrubbed clean: namely the seething resentments and mutual contempt inherent in the master/servant relationship.
- Cath Clarke
Oct 9, 2019 · Taking cues from classics of domestic intrigue such as Kim Ki-young’s “The Housemaid” (1960) and Joseph Losey’s “The Servant” (1963), they send this domestic drama vaulting into satire ...
- justin.chang@latimes.com
- Film Critic
Film critics and Bong Joon-ho himself have considered the film as a reflection of late-stage capitalism, and some have associated it with the term "Hell Joseon" (Korean: 헬조선), a satirical phrase that posits that living in hell would be akin to living in modern South Korea.
Oct 14, 2019 · Snowpiercer director Bong Joon-ho has made a South Korean social satire that's also a genre-bending Palme d'Or-winning thriller of class struggle.