toastykitten

Duuuuude. Ok, I don't know if Parasite totally lived up to the hype, but that was really good. Also, watching it also made the Vulture's review of it even funnier, especially if you know about Bong Joon Ho's propensity to like, just make shit up, whenever Americans are being stupid to him. 

Consider the first shot of Parasite (the title itself is a metaphor): what looks to be an empty birdcage draped with socks in front of a window that’s partially below street level. In this apartment, all dreams of flight have been extinguished (the socks reinforce the connection to the dirt), while the low vantage signals exclusion — a mocking one when the residents, the miserably destitute Kim family, have their view blocked by a drunken yuppie pissing against a wall.

LOLOLOLOL. I mean, the name of the thing escapes me, but it's literally just their laundry hanging to dry? A lot of middle-class Asians have them, and we just have them because we are too cheap to dry everything in the dryer, not just because we're poor. 

Anyway, some things I found with better commentary than I can give (spoilers for everything):

Cultural Details You Missed in 'Parasite'

Subtitles Can't Capture the Full Class Critique in 'Parasite'

The Forgotten Neoliberal Man of 'Parasite'