Parasite | The Best Picture Winner's Opening 10 Minutes | Now on Blu-ray, DVD, & Digital

Winner of 4 Academy Awards® including Best Picture, Bong Joon-ho brings his singular mastery home to Korea in this pitch-black modern fairytale. Meet the Park Family: the picture of aspirational wealth. And the Kim Family, rich in street smarts but not much else. Be it chance or fate, these two houses are brought together and the Kims sense a golden opportunity. Masterminded by college-aged Ki-woo, the Kim children expediently install themselves as tutor and art therapist, to the Parks. Soon, a symbiotic relationship forms between the two families. The Kims provide "indispensable" luxury services while the Parks obliviously bankroll their entire household. When a parasitic interloper threatens the Kims' newfound comfort, a savage, underhanded battle for dominance breaks out, threatening to destroy the fragile ecosystem between the Kims and the Parks. By turns darkly hilarious and heart-wrenching, Parasite showcases a modern master at the top of his game.

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[klarasy]

Just noticed now that even at the beginning they were already trying to get someone (pizza guy) fired to steal the job

[zintun]

I am surprised that every one is ignoring about that silver medal for hammer throwing sport. The wife must be a former national athlete but now forgotten. So sad... During flooding scene, the husband picks nothing but his wife's medal first... Heart breaking.. 😣

[PriyaBenny-turp]

Notice how Min enters the Kim family's home without knocking while they have to ring the Park family's doorbell, wait for someone to open the door, climb stairs, walk some more and then finally get inside their home through another door. I think Bong is trying to show us that rich people easily impose themselves on poor people while poor people have to go through a series of steps just to meet them.

[kennytee]

(Min comes back to Korea after months of studying abroad)

*Min:* “Damn it Ki-woo! All you had to do was tutor the damn girl”

[Cynner]

8:24 Min is lowkey looking down on Kiwoo, he implies his university friends may impress the girl but Kiwoo is 'safe', because he is from the lower class

[igorbatko]

3:16 The moment the pizza lady says "so 1 out of 4 are rejects" is instantly followed with camera revealing the whole family of four humbly listening, so it could mean that not only the boxes are faulty, but one of the family members is.



EDIT: ...which is obviously the father who rushed his way through it! Look how he turns his head around in shame. Very subtle and accurate

[eun-solkim]

My god all the comments here are analyses. If we compiled them we could write a whole commentary!

[bagashayujatmiko]

If you guys notice, the pizza lady who talked to them is also a build-up detail in this movie. In South Korea, if you are talk to stranger or someone who is not related to you in any way possible, you have to used jondaemal a.k.a formality. But if you talked to stranger using banmal a.k.a informality that means you look lowly to them. In this dialogue, she used a mix of banmal and jondaemal which means she looks at them underestimately.

[dabda]

6:40
Min (ex-tutor), the rich friend of Kim Ki-woo (son of poor family) mentions his grandfather started collecting the scholar's rocks since his cadet days. The key term here is "cadet days".

The more complete translation would be:


"My grandfather started collecting the scholar's rocks since his time as a cadet (or student) in the Korea Military Academy (of South Korea)."



The translation in the movie is great, but there is only so much you can cram into short lines of text.


KMA is South Korea's version of West Point of US. Doing a quick math shows Min's grandfather in this story would've been a student in KMA in the 1950s, probably right after the end of Korean War in 1953.



If you were able to gain admission into KMA around 1950s, you basically got the ticket to a life of the upper middle class and/or the elite. As long as you didn't screw up majorly, you really made it. In the 1950s, S. Koreans either lived life of subsistence farmer (vast majority) or merchant (very few) or government official (very few). If one gained admission into KMA around that time, you basically got on the fast track in life.


It was a great honor and difficult to get into KMA around that time, as in any society that just experienced a major war AND not much option of career available for young people.


Min subtly dropping here that his grandfather went to KMA is basically Min flexing. And the Kim family doesn't really mind because they know what KMA signifies.

[jspark]

1:15 That silver medal and the picture shows that although Mrs.Kim once was an excellent sports player, she couldn't win the gold medal. And so she ended up falling out from her 'planned' life.(It happens in S.Korea because everywhere people competes, the winner takes, the loser disappears.) If she had won the gold medal, her 'plan A' might be building her career as a player and becoming a coach and more, but she faced an unplanned failure and nothing was left. So she might have chosen to marry somebody as a 'plan B', but it also fails, now she asks her husband, "So what's your plan?"
Everyone has their own life plans. But only the winner can live as planned. So this film starts telling about all the losers under the only one winner.

[charliechillout]

This is painful to watch.... BECAUSE NOW I JUST WANT TO SEE THE WHOLE MOVIE AGAIN AHHH WHAT A TEASE

[mnm]

Beer at 5:55 is the cheapest beer in Korea. As the movie goes on, family drink more expensive beer. Those who watched the movie will get the point. I think this is one of examples of 'Bongtail'.

[zintun]

The scene that the father endures smoke and keeps folding the box, makes me feel sad... He tried but it doesn’t matter in the end....

[dickcheesemcgee]

Min gave them a rock, and the mother said "Food would've been better".Im pretty sure that has sth to do with that later in the movie, the sister was blocked of bringing food to the underground man and after that Ki woo brings the rock to him, resulting the massacre

[saya_]

I am still surprised this film didn't win Best Editing too. You don't even realise there is a one shot or zoom happening...the editing is *that* smooth. You just flow with the movie.

[kobiosama]

This film is nominated six and won 4 awards sweep at Oscar. Immensely deserving. Hope more films and arts by Director Bong in the future.

[SaintMartins]

When it comes to the Oscars... sure The Irishman, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood & Joker are popular films with the mainstream media, but truth be told PARASITE is the film most people are talking about on the street, internet, work, school & at home. This film should win BOTH the Foreign Language Film & Best Motion Picture awards this year !

[alejandroalemanhernandez]

Possible spoiler ahead, but the fact that Ki-taek actually tries to optimize his box-folding and then fails really reflects how, later on the movie, he advises Ki-woo to plan nothing ahead since things will never go as expected .

[The_Fall]

Absolutely wonderful movie, dont let subtitles stop you from watching this!!!

[nind]

I love it when ki woo ask "but do I have to pretend to be a college student?" a car flashes behind and moving really fast in such a small road. I don't know how to put it into words but I'm sure it's interpreted ki-woo's thought.