Parasite

Parasite is Bong Joon-ho's 2019 masterpiece! It revolves around a family of four living like leeches. They get free phone and Wi-Fi connection from shops and houses on top of theirs, and their dwelling condition is simply disgusting! The writer-director has created a real, visceral world with actual people living like this in one of South Korea's suburbs. Now, what if the boy child from this family receives an opportunity to be a fake tutor to a school girl from a high end, wealthy family? Seems like all hell is about to break loose? Catch the film to find out how it does!

Parasite has one of the easiest screenplays to follow that's extremely exciting to watch! You have to see for yourself how one by one, under different sorts of recommendations, all the members of this family infiltrate this silk-stocking house and making it their own! These characters are some of the best con artists you'll see in cinema, feeding off the gullibility of their affluent folks with their immense talent, slyness and intelligence. Practicing lines, peach allergy, hot sauce, you name the plans they come up with to chase and replace the incumbent staffs.

Parasite shifts to its penultimate gear post midpoint by opening up a whole new mystery. Bunker habitant discovery with the protagonist's family trying to escape the house owners who returns abruptly after a cancelled camping trip is simply riveting! The deep-pocketed couple having sex on the sofa atop where these tricksters members are hiding is pure gold screenwriting! It's only as the film travels further on the path of its runtime you'd realize there's a massive arc waiting to meet these characters. Realization that they can't live like this forever after witnessing the worst form of them, hatred that keeps building up toward the rich ones who repel the smell of these poor lads and the ultimate flood that lands our main characters' house are extremely moving and resonating! With a tragic yet beautiful climax resulting in death and chaos, it's hard not feel a knot in your stomach after it all ends.

Parasite sure has contrivances here and there, such as the relationship between the tutor and the girl growing too fast and the family of four allowing the former employee to enter the house they're guarding during odd hours. But sure, we are not the characters, therefore we can't expect them to take actions that we would. Amazing visual storytelling with stellar colors and camera quality are just bonuses waiting for the viewers!