In the early morning of May 26th, Beijing time, Korean genre film director Bong Joon-ho's new work "Parasite" won the first South Korean Palme d'Or with nine judges' unanimous vote.
From the perspective of "The Thief Family", which won the Palme d'Or award last year, it is not difficult to draw the conclusion that "using small people stories to tell social class issues" is more and more in line with the taste of the times.
Some time ago, almost the entire domestic Internet was discussing the success of this movie. Even because a certain big V cue to "subway taste" when writing a long essay on his personal life in his scarf, it directly triggered a second fermentation of public opinion.
Suddenly, "what is the smell of subway" has become a hot issue on the Internet. After the emergence of this issue, the stratification, class disparity, social suffering, etc. connected in series have also been heatedly discussed by the public.
chose to hand over this film review after this wave of frenzy gradually subsided. On the one hand, it wanted to enlarge the part that can be discussed when most people have already watched the movie. On the other hand, it also wanted to get enough public opinion to ferment. After that, everyone can look back at this work with a more objective perspective.
Compared with the translation of the mainland version, the translation of the Taiwan version "Parasitic Upper" may more intuitively express the story told by the film:
Jin Jize (Song Kanghao) who lives in the semi-underground family, has no job, and his parents are unemployed. Children who are out of school earn a meager living expenses by folding take-out boxes for pizza restaurants.
By coincidence, the eldest son, Ki Woo, got the opportunity to go to President Park’s house to teach as a tutor through his friend Min Hyuk’s relationship.
Using fake brand-name university diplomas and solid academic skills, Ji Yu used the name "Kevin" to successfully knock on the door of high society.
Then, other family members were also inserted into President Park’s house by him.
's younger sister, Ji Ting, who is gifted in art, changed her name to Jessica and became the art teacher of President Park's youngest son, Do Song.
Father Keize and mother Zhongsook replaced the original driver and housekeeper of the Park family respectively. A family of four pretended not to know each other at President Park's house and worked separately.
The successful parasitic life has brought great changes to the Jin family. Maybe if they persist for a while, they will be able to move out of the ground with the salary of four people and let Ji Ting and Ji Woo go to school again.
as long as they don't cross the line. The second half of the film
is due to the shake of this cordon, from a comedy to a thriller.
The Kim family, who always guarded their boundaries, completely relaxed the cordon after President Park’s family went camping.
Ji Woo lay on Dahui’s bed and read Dahui’s diary. Ji Ting took a relaxing bath in the bathtub,
The whole family ate beef with champagne and laughed and played games on the lawn.
Then, Wen Guang, the former housekeeper who was run by Ji Yu and Ji Ting, came back in the rain.
The moment when Zhongshu presses the button to open the door, it means the appearance of the real parasite.
If the half-underground Jin Jize family is a parasite that has just found its host. Then liveWenguang's husband in the lower room is a real parasite that has been parasitic for a long time.
family photo albums, books and clothes, cups and plates and chopsticks, all the life-related items of Wenguang and his wife are in the basement of this house unknown to no one.
They are lodging underground, and sincerely thank the host, President Park, for their favor. Like a truly pious parasite, they use Morse code to tap the chandelier on the entrance every day to convey their gratitude to President Park.
When the two parasitic families were confronting each other due to coercion, the host returned. The camping plan changed, and President Park's family had no choice but to turn back.
"Parasites" just like Chung-sook said in the early part of the movie, they scatter like cockroaches.
The originally seemingly harmonious relationship between "parasite and host" has completely turned into an antagonistic relationship between the rich and the poor after this scene.
was just because when the Keize family was hiding under the coffee table, they heard President Park’s comment on them, "I am sensible and know not to cross the line, but the smell of subway will still cross the line."
The "subway smell" that is trapped on Jin's four members is the smell of living in the semi-underground, hiding in the dark without the smell of sunlight, it is the smell of camping for life but it still smells like ants .
President Park can gently bring up the nasty smell, enjoy one-time love on the spacious sofa, and then watch his son happily camping in the yard fall asleep.
The golden driver and his family have to flee in a hurry under the rainstorm, all the way down, and return to their dilapidated real life.
This gap is of course an objective existence, and we have no right to accuse President Park of superiority.
can easily resonate with people, which is probably the "ant's pride" that Golden Driver gave birth to.
So the next day, after preparing for Dosong’s birthday party with Mrs. Park for a day, after being semi-forced to put on Indian dress, after watching his child fall down,
Keize finally Pained by President Park's subconscious dislike of the subway smell, he raised the culling knife. Director
once said in an interview that the original inspiration for the story originated in 2013. At first, he wanted to describe the lives of two families in a symmetrical way.
However, after writing, I found that poor families have more content and are more worthy of attention. The tragedy of the poor is the core theme of "Parasite".
In Ki Woo’s imagination at the end of the film, he will continue to struggle until he buys this mansion that originally belonged to President Park.
hid in the basement to avoid crime and became the father of the new parasite, then he can walk upright and embrace a good life.
But in fact it is impossible. If calculated by the current per capita income in South Korea, it would take 547 years for Ki-woo to buy the house.
This is a tragedy that he is unable to change, and this feeling of powerlessness and sadness is what Feng Junhao wants to discuss.
After the film was sent to the Cannes Film Festival, the judges once said when mentioning "Parasite": "The film is to reflect the conscience of society to a certain extent." The original word is "social"The phrase "consciousness" may be a bit difficult to understand.
But in fact, Feng Junhao has already used the words of the Golden Driver's family to tell the truth about many of the rich and poor in the real world.
"is not rich but kind, It's because of being rich, so kind. "
" Money is an iron, and all the wrinkles are ironed. "
" Everyone is so handsome, even if they are called temporarily, they are still very calm. "
These golden sentences dotted with the film are the taste of life that Ki-woo and Chung-sook can only feel after seeing the countless truths of life.
To be honest, even now The score dropped slightly and dropped to 9 points, but we still cannot deny that "Parasite" is a very successful work.
It has the paradigm framework of commercial genre films and reverses accidents, and continues to show people in the play. The excitement of throwing in and the plot of raising also made the plot ups and downs all the way to catch people.
Another key to being able to trap the audience is that it also has full artistic expression on the basis of making a good commercial genre:
President Park’s house is bright and tidy, and the road past is a step up stairs.
Jin’s house is dark and messy, and the way back is all the way down.
After the heavy rain, the yard of President Park’s house the day after the rain. Sunny, everyone ushered in a brand new day in the sun and green grass.
The golden driver’s family woke up in the hustle and bustle of the stadium where the disaster victims gathered.
A torrential rain can wash out the families of the poor, or it can. Wash the courtyard of the rich to a better place.
It is these seemingly objective and parallel expressions that make the tragedy of the poor more acrimonious and more prickling.
Of course, the film also has many criticized deficiencies.
For example, the most controversial question: how can the rich be so stupid? How can the children of the poor be so smart?
Actually, I don’t think this is a problem that needs to be more serious. From this problem, it has risen to "the film is not sincere to the audience" It’s not necessary. The movie
is full of allegorical or absurd plot designs, so you might as well regard it as an allegorical story.
The details of the story are not important. The story touches you and Feelings are the most true. Based on this,
makes me have some doubts about the ending. Does
have to be a genre film? It is stacked in order to give the audience the strongest touch and feeling Do you try to be the best when you are emotional?
Kim Ki-taek out of shame and self-esteem Is there really enough motivation to choose to kill President Park who is standing in another class? Is it necessary to prove the inevitability of a character's tragic fate?
Of course, these are just some of my thoughts after reviewing my own opinions several times, not what we mainly want to write today.
But I still hope that such a wonderful work can give us more multi-dimensional thinking.
What judgment the audience makes, it just records a fable frankly, and what we see from it is not just the gap between the rich and the poor, The tragedy of the poor, and the power of patriarchy, the consolidation of classes, and so on.
Even if you already know the direction and ending of the story, you will still find many hidden details when you look back. For example, President Park said that the old housekeeper "everything is good, but eating too much". Director Bong Joon-ho said: "Hope ("Parasite") is a movie that allows everyone to have a lot of ideas after watching it. I think he did it.
