Mrs Park (Cho Yo-jeong) is a helicopter mum, particularly indulgent of her pampered little son. Mr Park (Lee Sun-kyun) is a cordial businessman with an icy edge who expects his chauffeur’s smooth turns not to upset his coffee. Lee Sun-kyun as Mr Park and Cho Yo-jeong as Mrs ParkĪll of this very naturally plays out as a satire of the whims and extravagances of the remote and cloistered wealthy. In this servant/master home-invasion potboiler, exactly who is leeching off whom is never clear. As always with Bong’s films, the devil is in the detail, of which no spoilers here, except to say that it’s a wicked ride. Soon, in a fiendishly orchestrated caper, more and more of the clan join the rich family’s entourage. When his son Ki-woo (Choi Woo-shik) gets a gig posing as a university-educated English tutor for the teenage daughter of a fancy family, they hit the jackpot. “Wait,” says father Ki-taek as they rush to close the window at the sight of fumigators advancing down the street. Meet Ki-taek (Bong’s patron saint of slackers,Song Kang-ho) and his family: existing on the bottom rung of the gig economy, they are nothing but industrious, folding pizza boxes for peanuts, freeloading off any wifi signal they can while also trying to stop drunk passersby from urinating by their cramped basement home. Ever thesui generisgenre-switcher, Bong this time has his class struggle play out in a con-family comedy. Parasite is possibly even more explicit and angry a socio-political critique thanSnowpiercer, which saw its prole insurgents upsetting the rigid class ecosystem on a train in a futuristic ice age.
Of course have-nots have always been his heroes, whether they’re a snack-shop-dwelling family battling a giant amphibious mutant (inThe Host) or a teenager and her grandfather raising a super pig in the mountains (Okja). Last year at Cannes,Lee Chang-dongheld up a magnifying glass to Korean society and unveiled his critique on the one per cent vs the 99 per cent inBurning. The Korean master fuses home-invasion thrills with a searing critique of social inequality in thisrip-roaring con-family comedy.Ĭhoi Woo-shik as Ki-woo, Song Kang-ho as Ki-taek, Chang Hyae-jin as Chung-sook and Park So-dam as Ki-Jung in Parasite (Gisaengchung) Parasite first look: Bong Joon-ho builds a wicked bridge over the class divide
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