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posted ago by Mrbigchest616 +27 / -0

I’m big movie fan and have watched a couple Korean movies of late. Burning and Parasite. I did not get the message at all the director was trying to push with Parasite. He said it was about capitalism and how there’s such a big difference between rich and poor it’s not fair. Here’s what I got: a family with a lazy patriarch with a wife and two kids. One son and one daughter. They start to invade this family’s life. First the son becomes the English tutor for the daughter. Oh and he starts hooking up with her. Who is under age. Then the sister becomes the art teacher for the son and convinces the mother he suffers from some sort of schizophrenia. Then they get the maid fired by framing her as sickly so the mom gets the job. They then frame the rich guys driver as having had sex in their car so the dad could get that job. They invaded this family... like a fucking parasite. The poor dad overhears the richer people talking and they mention he smells. This foreshows the ending where shit is going down at the rich people house where a guy has been squatting in this nuclear underground bunker this hidden beneath the house. He escapes after a fight with the poor family. He runs towards rich dad and the guy is like ew you stink. So poor dad gets all but hurt and decided to stab the dad leaving this family without a father. I come from a more well off family and have dealt a lot with fake friends and people wanting to be close to us for all my life. So for me I just see a normal family that had worked hard and made a lot of good decisions (not just by accident) that lead them to be better off and a parasite infected the host and killed it. But le capitalism is bad lol. I was talking with my fitness trainer about it and he’s definitely more than liberal he brought up the whole capitalism thing like “I need to see this movie now.” Just pisses me off. Rant done.

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Thenew23rd 5 points ago +6 / -1

Good review. A lot of people hate free enterprise so much that it blinds them.

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Blaer 4 points ago +4 / -0

Speaking as a Korean American who watched the movie, it made sense in the context of Korean culture but I wasnt all that enthused when Western viewers praised the movie as a blanket critique that capitalism is bad and that the poor family were protagonists you were supposed to have sympathy for.