A social movie. Is everyone so tired that such films began to receive prestigious film awards?
There are no positive or negative characters in Parasites. The film is not so much about people as about the system that gave birth and educated them.
In the Kim family, everything is bad - they live in terrible conditions, they do not fit into the market, and most of the offices where they are able to get a job, quickly burn out. They don’t give up on each other because they are family. One might think of them as positive characters were it not for the methods by which they fight for their happiness on occasion.
My son is studying English in hopes of going to college. The daughter has good skills in photoshop and design, but without a university degree, she has only to forge documents. The father is a good driver, loader, baker, though without recommendations for a normal job can not get a job, and small entrepreneurs and so make ends meet.
At first glance, the Pakov family is doing well - a huge house, a personal housekeeper and a driver, also two children. The eldest graduates from school and prepares to enter the university with a tutor, and the youngest is already 9 years old learning to play a boring intellectual snob with twists. The father develops computer games or peripherals, and the mother unsuccessfully tries to run household chores.
Unlike the Kims, the Packs have much less warmth inside the family. They work as a team, but mostly just try to solve problems as optimally as possible and keep them secret from each other.
It doesn’t matter what happens between families. The main focus of the film is on their general attitude towards each other. Kims have a mixed sense of celebration and gratitude for the Paks, trying not to think about the unpleasant nuances of their employment. At the same time, the Paquis, who are very kind to their servants, cannot stand the smell of the Kims. This is a pretty rough description of class differences.
An interesting nuance is the periodic mention of the DPRK as a terrible and terrible place. And it is usually from the Kims, who live worse than the inhabitants of the same DPRK.
The Pakov housekeeper family line demonstrates a different working-class attitude towards the Pacas. Her husband’s fanatical devotion to the owners of the house, who do not even suspect him, reeks of religious fanaticism and utter self-denial.
The ending of the film is somewhat blurred, but the final scene looks extremely logical. Showing some possible ways to resolve the controversy between the Kims and the Parks over the course of the film. The ratio of dreams and reality puts a gloomy point in the final picture.
