With Parasite (Black & White Edition) due out, I reviewed the colour version for Reform. Read my All The Anime review too.
Poor family, rich family
Parasite
Directed by Bong Joon Ho
Certificate 15, 132 minutes
Released 7 February
With income inequality on the rise in the UK, this Oscar-winning, edge-of-the seat thriller from South Korea couldn’t be more pertinent. A poor family struggling to survive at the bottom of the country’s economic food chain stumbles on an opportunity to work for an obscenely rich family who pay very well. The poor family secure themselves this work through a series of deceits and scams, stealing existing positions from the family’s chauffeur and housekeeper in the process.
The characters are engaging. The poor family fervently want to better their economic lot and leave no stone unturned to do so. Their resourcefulness is impressive, their morality less so – and yet we find ourselves liking them. The rich family are likeable too, with no suggestion whatsoever that their income has derived from dishonest or dubious sources.
With Parasite (Black & White Edition) due out, I reviewed the colour version for Reform. Read my All The Anime review too.
Winner of Best Foreign Language Film at the 2019 (92nd) Oscars.
Trailer (colour) here: