Parasite (2019)
(film 132 minutes)
Rating: 5/10 | Yaser Tohidi
August 22, 2019
A poor family opens its place inside a bourgeois family's mansion as the mentors, driver and housekeeper by performing funny tricks. One night that the bourgeois family is on a trip, the poor family gather in the house and enjoy a luxury night until the former housekeeper comes to the door and asks for entrance saying she forgot something in the house and that is nothing but her husband who has lived in a hidden bunker in the basement for years. She also finds out that the newcomers in the house are a family. At the same time the bourgeois family call and say they have shorten their trip and they are coming back in a few minutes. The poor family puts the former housekeeper and her husband in the hidden bunker injuring severely the former housekeeper and go home except the mother, the new housekeeper. Next day is the birthday of the boy of the bourgeois family and every one is there. During the celebration, the husband of the former housekeeper comes out of the bunker after injuring severely the son of the poor family and kills the daughter of the poor family and in response, her mother kills him. Triggered by his daughter and son wounds and more importantly by father of the bourgeois family's disgust over the smell of the husband of the former housekeeper, father of the poor family kills the father of the bourgeois family. Father runs away and finds nowhere to hide but the hidden bunker. At the end, his son promises that he will buy that house one day and brings his father out of the bunker.
Parasite is a black comedy coming out of the wealth inequality of two families. It has a good rhythm in the first half but from the moment that the former housekeeper comes, the tune changes. From this moment the logic of the incidents is not strong, like the sequence of the incidents in the birthday when the father does not react when his daughter is wounded but gets angry when the father of the bourgeois family turns his face from the bad smell of the husband of the former housekeeper! The first half is engaging and funny when it shows how the poor family cheat easily the bourgeois family, but the second half lacks strong logical bonds and the story line changes direction, challenge between the poor family and the former housekeeper and her husband. Moreover, in Parasite, characters are not truly introduced. The scenario actually refrains from getting closer to the characters. The movie is focusing only on the incidents. Anyways, the movie's ending is brilliant.
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