[FILM] Parasite (2019)
DISCLAIMER: I don’t own Parasite, nor any of the pages linked to in this post. All credit goes to their respective creators. A full list of references and links will be at the end of this post.
10:49am. I've decided to format this blog post in an interesting way, timestamping my day throughout. Although I'm not a news site, I'd like to see how this experience feels. It's akin to livestreaming, but I guess it should be called "live-writing"? I guess on-the-scene press coverage? Haha.
Thursday, February 27th 2020
10:49am. I've decided to format this blog post in an interesting way, timestamping my day throughout. Although I'm not a news site, I'd like to see how this experience feels. It's akin to livestreaming, but I guess it should be called "live-writing"? I guess on-the-scene press coverage? Haha.
As an RMIT student, today I have the privilege of attending a free showing of Bong Joon-ho's Parasite at The Capitol Theatre. There will be a golden carpet for Hollywood style arrivals AND sequinned dancers to boot! Hopefully, I'll grab a good photo this time around. The gold carpet arrivals and the doors open at 5pm. The event's seated on a first-come-first-served basis, so I plan to arrive around 4:30pm, maybe a little earlier. Once inside the Foyer, I'm assured a seat and can check out the venue! I'm highly interested in exploring places (check the title of this blog), and I'll document what I see. There is a DJ and light-show in The Capitol from then until 6pm when the movie shall begin. I'll naturally go offline for that, and then post my thoughts later.
I'm very excited. The film won Best Picture at the recent Oscars! I also plan to view the movie with my friends. It'll furthermore be an excellent story to add to my mental collection.
So yes! Welcome aboard. Check this post again in a couple of hours. I'll change the title every time there is an update.
4:11pm. Arrived in the city. Wasn't supposed to be here this morning, but at least my friend is here with me. Sitting at a Maccas.
4:32pm. Standing in line with Stevie. Surprised that people were already here!
5:13pm. Made it inside The Capitol Theatre. Sitting on the audience's right side. Here's some snapshots!
Sampling the popcorn. A little hungry.
5:37pm. I've misread "DJ and light-show". I expected there to be a DJ on the stage jamming out whilst disco lights went on. It's okay, though. Eating my popcorn.
8:49pm. Parasite ended a while ago. I feel emotionally drained after that movie. Stuck in zen mode. Will report my remarks tomorrow.
9:42pm. Have arrived home. My mind has been so speechless. I don't know if I can describe the film. I checked out the Plot synopsis on Wikipedia, then the Themes and Interpretation subheading for a moment before closing it. I don't want to hear it.
Friday, February 28th 2020
11:02pm. Have been writing my notes and thoughts down in my journal today. Should be able to type my review up and post it by the end of tomorrow. Thanks for sticking with me, everyone!
7:33pm. I believe a decent film should leave you in good spirits. A great film; in awe and wonder. But a perfect film? Emotionally drained, speechless, and perhaps even dazed.
That was how I felt when Parasite ended. Lost, suddenly warped back into reality. A fantastic film, or any piece of media for that matter, has succeeded when it has temporarily made you forget who you are, all your memories and stresses. Your entire mind is solely focused on the film and its characters; your heart feels directly involved somehow. Instead of observing a movie, you’ve become an invisible bystander in the setting. Your eyes ache and tear up a little because they’re so glued to the action.
Left in that stupor, my friend Stevie walked us out of The Capitol Theatre and down the street to the nearby train station. On our way there, he entered a convenience store for some drinks and snacks. All I could do was mindlessly follow and mumble that “I guess I’ll take a Coke”. I became annoyed when my sister texted me, simply asking when I planned to be home. I snappily replied back, not wanting to be taken out of my mindset. All I could think about was vivid flashes of the film’s scenes, considering them quietly, with no inner voice.
There’s so much I feel for Parasite that I don’t think I could put it into appropriate words. In fact, I almost believe that I can’t, that I’m not enough of an elite movie reviewer or a master essayist to discuss it. But I know deep down that Bong Joon-ho would definitely be interested in everyone’s opinion of the film, and that includes me, a young, budding writer.
I firstly regret watching the trailer with my mother yesterday morning. I’m easily influenced by others; I latch onto words people say readily. What I had in mind during the movie was Vulture’s comment during the trailer, “You expect Parasite to be one thing, but it mutates into something else”. I checked out the Wikipedia page for the film as well, noting that it was referred to as a “black comedy”.
“A black comedy?” I said to myself. I thought of an amusing, perhaps satirical film with some death, dark humour. “This should be fun.”
That was an understatement.
Now I see that that description can refer to the two, extremely different parts of the film. Nathaniel Lee from Insider discussed it as “two separate movies… joined into one”, and I can agree with that. As the Kim family sit there, enjoying the fruits of their exploit, I felt incredibly tense, waiting for the loose string to unravel it all. The tonal shift was a real whiplash.
I’ve tried not to view any reviews of Parasite in order to not let my thoughts on it be shaped by others too much. I’ve watched a few videos about parts of the film, such as the visual architecture of the sets, the translated ending song, and the opening cutscene. As I said before, I latch very easily onto what other people say and add it to my own opinion. Sure, it’s smart, but then it feels like I don’t have anything original to say. I don’t really feel I do anyway, I’m sure what I’ll be discussing in this post has already been approached, but I’ll discuss it anyway.
The first and most important thing I’d like to cover is the word “Parasite”. It’s the title of the film and there’s an abundance of layers in it. At the beginning of the movie, Ki-taek flicks away a stink bug, an insect that would generally be classified as a pest. Whilst the family are folding boxes, a worker is doing fumigation work and Ki-taek says to leave their window open, so they can receive free extermination. The toxic fumes billow in and the rest of the family choke and cough. Just a few minutes earlier, we see the family leech off of literal “hosts” (people and internet-wise) for free wi-fi, and also attempting to persuade the pizza worker to fire another employee. The insect pests and parasites may have been exterminated, but not them, the true parasites.
Then, we have the wealthy family. I don’t personally agree with calling the Parks’ relationship with their workers as parasitic, but some people and the director see it as such. Sure, they leech off of the labour the Kim family provides, despite being able enough to perform the driving and housework duties themselves. However, I like to see the Kim family moving up from being parasites to a more mutual organism, creating a more equal, symbiotic relationship with the Parks. Sure, we don’t see the level of quality education Ki-woo and Ki-jung give to the Park siblings, but it seems to be good. Ki-taek is doing excellent work as the driver and general helper on outdoor errands, while Chung-sook does great work attending to the household, and even cooks up ram-don in the eight minutes prior to the Park family’s return from their failed camping trip. Although the Kim family exploits this symbiotic relationship by spending the night in the Park’s home, it’s difficult to really condemn these characters and the work they’ve put into their duties, given their poor backgrounds and home.
The final parasite family is Kook Moon-gwang and Oh Geun-sae, the latter having lived in the secret underground bunker of the Park family house for four years, You could really feel the tone of the film changing as the handheld Steadicam follows Chung-sook from the nice basement down an excruciatingly long flight of stairs, doused in murky green light, to the hidden bunker there. All of a sudden, this black comedy begins to feel like a psychological thriller. And then, after the ending massacre, Ki-taek retreats into the bunker and becomes the new parasite, taking Geun-sae’s place.
Isn’t it intriguing how much foreshadowing there is in this film? Just remembered that during the halfway point of the film, when the Kim family are enjoying whiskey in the living room, Chung-sook says that if the Park family walked in, Ki-taek would scurry away like a cockroach, afraid for his life. And that’s precisely what he does at the end of Parasite, afraid of the consequences.
It may be my BBC Merlin, Uther Pendragon-sympathising else driving me here, but I’d like to delve into Ki-taek. He was my favourite character in the film, though I don’t think saying that is appropriate. He was the character I felt for the most in the movie, and I don’t understand how some people can outright hate him.
To start, most Asian countries, including Korea, run on a patriarchal society, where the males are the heads of their households and thus have to make the decisions that will hopefully benefit their family. But at the beginning of the film, Chung-sook smacks her husband’s backside and in a taunting tone, ask him what his plan is. He appears tired and hopeless. Perhaps this implies his plans have led them down to the hopeless situation they’re in. It’s obvious he doesn’t know what to do, but he can’t tell his family that. Then, when he asks his family to leave the windows open for free extermination, he puts on a disgruntled, yet focused expression as he attempts to fold the pizza boxes as fast as the woman in the video. But it’s clear his hasty efforts have disadvantaged his family when the pizza work deducts 10% of their pay because a quarter of the boxes are poorly folded. The family looks spitefully towards Ki-taek. He, of course, meant to complete his job in time, yet failed again. A final interesting note about that scene is that it isn’t Ki-taek who speaks directly with the pizza worker, but rather, Chung-sook, his wife.
Later, we see a change in Ki-taek when he’s hired to be a driver. He’s highly dedicated to his role. He and his son visit a Mercedes dealer so he can remember how to drive a car, and familiarising himself with the GPS. He spends so much time rehearsing his lines for his conversation with Choi Yeon-gyo about tuberculosis. He looks excited when he realises their family can make plenty of money, and have a real chance of getting themselves out of their situation. A misguided hope, but a hope nonetheless, shines in his eyes.
Most impressively, he keeps himself in control for much of the movie. He doesn’t “cross the line”, as Park Dong-ik says, when interacting with him. He doesn’t enquire too far into whether or not Mr Park truly loves his wife. It’s also incredible how in control he is when chauffeuring and aiding Yeon-gyo with her errands the day after their home became flooded. While she remarked how much of a blessing the rain was, discussing how the pollution was swept away, he keeps it to himself. Although the sewage water flooded down into his home and many others’ living below, all he can do is sniff his clothes and drive on. But the moment he finally snaps is when in a dire situation, Dong-ik stops to plug his nose from the repulsive “odor of poverty” before grabbing his car keys under Geun-sae’s body.
Because at the end of the day, the most valuable thing a person, and especially a poor person has, is their pride.
And I would know, as a member of the lower class myself.
Although I don’t have the misfortune of living in a semi-basement dwelling like the Kims, but a house above ground, I am still from an Asian family, where saving face and preserving one’s honour means everything. We don’t like to accept help or donations from anyone, because we don’t want to appear weak and helpless. We suck up the pain, pretending that everything is okay when it isn’t. But all those direct blows to Ki-taek’s pride, a man who has lost so much, became too much, and he fell even further below as a result of his actions. He lost his home. He lost his daughter, and potentially, his son. He carries an ever-present “poor person” smell. And it’s something the wealthy have to pause to resist, even at a time of crisis. Ki-taek, to some extent, came to understand Geun-sae when he explained how and why he uses the lights. I like to see Ki-taek defending the pride of poor people when he stabbed Dong-ik. But he immediately comes to regret his actions. He escapes into the bunker, and once the door is closed behind him, he weeps. We see him sincerely apologising to the poster of Dong-ik by the light switches. It takes a lot to make a grown man, let alone an Asian one, cry. My heart ached for him.
Speaking of Dong-ik, he’s brought to light many interesting parts of Ki-taek when they interact in the Parasite. Dong-ik implies that he doesn’t wholeheartedly love his wife, and it’s easy to see that Ki-taek is bothered by this. Poor people have to rely on their family heavily, and this relationship can strain very easily due to hardships. Ki-taek is bothered that a family can have so much going for them, and yet Dong-ik cannot love his wife with all his heart. The very first object Ki-taek saves from their flooded dwelling is his wife’s silver medal for the hammer throw. Early on in the film, he says he’s proud of his son when he goes for his tutoring interview at the Parks’ house. Ki-taek deeply cares about his family, he just can’t show it with the luxuries that Dong-ik can afford. He even has a cheeky side to him too, shown when he gropes his wife’s rear at the Parks’ home. He’s not just a poor person struggling to survive, but someone with needs too, though middle-aged. He’s such a fleshed-out character, one I’ve practically written an essay about. Heck, most of the main characters can have essays like this written about them because Bong Joon-ho does a brilliant job of characterising them all. But I digress.
So… how would I rate this film? After watching several analysis videos on Parasite’s mise-en-scene and cinematography (admittedly still not paying enough attention to its score), not to mention considering the depth of each character and the startling realism of the story’s events, this film deserves a solid 10 out of 10, five stars. The only nitpicks I have are some I share with Cr1TiKaL (penguinz0), who gave it a 95/100 on his Moist Meter. I believe it’s because a few of the movie’s jokes missed, but generally, they hit, and those that did were pretty good. I was a bit frustrated sitting in The Capitol Theatre, listening to other people laugh. I felt like I was forced to laugh at a joke I didn’t feel was funny, because other people were laughing too. But still, I feel these are such tiny nitpicks, and with some of the jokes even being lost in translation, that I feel it’s an injustice to give this film anything less than what it deserves. A rightful 10.
I sincerely hope highschool and university film courses and subjects incorporate Parasite into their syllabus/curriculum. The final movie I studied in RMIT’s Introduction to Cinema Studies was There Will Be Blood, which I feel Parasite outranks immensely. It would also be an interesting final topic, foreign language films. This movie deserves all the talk and praise that it’s been receiving. I can’t recommend it enough. Please purchase/rent it on Youtube or anywhere it’s available, and support the incredible Bong Joon-ho’s films and his remarkable cast and crew.
Thank you for reading! If you liked this content, please consider subscribing via email. From here on out, I’ll be attending my university classes, so I can’t promise to upload something every week. If I do, it'll be something definitely much smaller and personal, so I don't have to do as much research. Also, feel free to comment down below! Tell me about your perspective on Parasite, or discuss one of my points in my review. And that’s all from me this week. Goodbye~!
Further Viewing / Pages Linked (in order of appearance):
Saturday, February 29th 2020
Warning: Spoilers ahead!
7:33pm. I believe a decent film should leave you in good spirits. A great film; in awe and wonder. But a perfect film? Emotionally drained, speechless, and perhaps even dazed.
That was how I felt when Parasite ended. Lost, suddenly warped back into reality. A fantastic film, or any piece of media for that matter, has succeeded when it has temporarily made you forget who you are, all your memories and stresses. Your entire mind is solely focused on the film and its characters; your heart feels directly involved somehow. Instead of observing a movie, you’ve become an invisible bystander in the setting. Your eyes ache and tear up a little because they’re so glued to the action.
Left in that stupor, my friend Stevie walked us out of The Capitol Theatre and down the street to the nearby train station. On our way there, he entered a convenience store for some drinks and snacks. All I could do was mindlessly follow and mumble that “I guess I’ll take a Coke”. I became annoyed when my sister texted me, simply asking when I planned to be home. I snappily replied back, not wanting to be taken out of my mindset. All I could think about was vivid flashes of the film’s scenes, considering them quietly, with no inner voice.
There’s so much I feel for Parasite that I don’t think I could put it into appropriate words. In fact, I almost believe that I can’t, that I’m not enough of an elite movie reviewer or a master essayist to discuss it. But I know deep down that Bong Joon-ho would definitely be interested in everyone’s opinion of the film, and that includes me, a young, budding writer.
I firstly regret watching the trailer with my mother yesterday morning. I’m easily influenced by others; I latch onto words people say readily. What I had in mind during the movie was Vulture’s comment during the trailer, “You expect Parasite to be one thing, but it mutates into something else”. I checked out the Wikipedia page for the film as well, noting that it was referred to as a “black comedy”.
“A black comedy?” I said to myself. I thought of an amusing, perhaps satirical film with some death, dark humour. “This should be fun.”
That was an understatement.
Now I see that that description can refer to the two, extremely different parts of the film. Nathaniel Lee from Insider discussed it as “two separate movies… joined into one”, and I can agree with that. As the Kim family sit there, enjoying the fruits of their exploit, I felt incredibly tense, waiting for the loose string to unravel it all. The tonal shift was a real whiplash.
I’ve tried not to view any reviews of Parasite in order to not let my thoughts on it be shaped by others too much. I’ve watched a few videos about parts of the film, such as the visual architecture of the sets, the translated ending song, and the opening cutscene. As I said before, I latch very easily onto what other people say and add it to my own opinion. Sure, it’s smart, but then it feels like I don’t have anything original to say. I don’t really feel I do anyway, I’m sure what I’ll be discussing in this post has already been approached, but I’ll discuss it anyway.
The first and most important thing I’d like to cover is the word “Parasite”. It’s the title of the film and there’s an abundance of layers in it. At the beginning of the movie, Ki-taek flicks away a stink bug, an insect that would generally be classified as a pest. Whilst the family are folding boxes, a worker is doing fumigation work and Ki-taek says to leave their window open, so they can receive free extermination. The toxic fumes billow in and the rest of the family choke and cough. Just a few minutes earlier, we see the family leech off of literal “hosts” (people and internet-wise) for free wi-fi, and also attempting to persuade the pizza worker to fire another employee. The insect pests and parasites may have been exterminated, but not them, the true parasites.
Then, we have the wealthy family. I don’t personally agree with calling the Parks’ relationship with their workers as parasitic, but some people and the director see it as such. Sure, they leech off of the labour the Kim family provides, despite being able enough to perform the driving and housework duties themselves. However, I like to see the Kim family moving up from being parasites to a more mutual organism, creating a more equal, symbiotic relationship with the Parks. Sure, we don’t see the level of quality education Ki-woo and Ki-jung give to the Park siblings, but it seems to be good. Ki-taek is doing excellent work as the driver and general helper on outdoor errands, while Chung-sook does great work attending to the household, and even cooks up ram-don in the eight minutes prior to the Park family’s return from their failed camping trip. Although the Kim family exploits this symbiotic relationship by spending the night in the Park’s home, it’s difficult to really condemn these characters and the work they’ve put into their duties, given their poor backgrounds and home.
The final parasite family is Kook Moon-gwang and Oh Geun-sae, the latter having lived in the secret underground bunker of the Park family house for four years, You could really feel the tone of the film changing as the handheld Steadicam follows Chung-sook from the nice basement down an excruciatingly long flight of stairs, doused in murky green light, to the hidden bunker there. All of a sudden, this black comedy begins to feel like a psychological thriller. And then, after the ending massacre, Ki-taek retreats into the bunker and becomes the new parasite, taking Geun-sae’s place.
Isn’t it intriguing how much foreshadowing there is in this film? Just remembered that during the halfway point of the film, when the Kim family are enjoying whiskey in the living room, Chung-sook says that if the Park family walked in, Ki-taek would scurry away like a cockroach, afraid for his life. And that’s precisely what he does at the end of Parasite, afraid of the consequences.
It may be my BBC Merlin, Uther Pendragon-sympathising else driving me here, but I’d like to delve into Ki-taek. He was my favourite character in the film, though I don’t think saying that is appropriate. He was the character I felt for the most in the movie, and I don’t understand how some people can outright hate him.
To start, most Asian countries, including Korea, run on a patriarchal society, where the males are the heads of their households and thus have to make the decisions that will hopefully benefit their family. But at the beginning of the film, Chung-sook smacks her husband’s backside and in a taunting tone, ask him what his plan is. He appears tired and hopeless. Perhaps this implies his plans have led them down to the hopeless situation they’re in. It’s obvious he doesn’t know what to do, but he can’t tell his family that. Then, when he asks his family to leave the windows open for free extermination, he puts on a disgruntled, yet focused expression as he attempts to fold the pizza boxes as fast as the woman in the video. But it’s clear his hasty efforts have disadvantaged his family when the pizza work deducts 10% of their pay because a quarter of the boxes are poorly folded. The family looks spitefully towards Ki-taek. He, of course, meant to complete his job in time, yet failed again. A final interesting note about that scene is that it isn’t Ki-taek who speaks directly with the pizza worker, but rather, Chung-sook, his wife.
Later, we see a change in Ki-taek when he’s hired to be a driver. He’s highly dedicated to his role. He and his son visit a Mercedes dealer so he can remember how to drive a car, and familiarising himself with the GPS. He spends so much time rehearsing his lines for his conversation with Choi Yeon-gyo about tuberculosis. He looks excited when he realises their family can make plenty of money, and have a real chance of getting themselves out of their situation. A misguided hope, but a hope nonetheless, shines in his eyes.
Most impressively, he keeps himself in control for much of the movie. He doesn’t “cross the line”, as Park Dong-ik says, when interacting with him. He doesn’t enquire too far into whether or not Mr Park truly loves his wife. It’s also incredible how in control he is when chauffeuring and aiding Yeon-gyo with her errands the day after their home became flooded. While she remarked how much of a blessing the rain was, discussing how the pollution was swept away, he keeps it to himself. Although the sewage water flooded down into his home and many others’ living below, all he can do is sniff his clothes and drive on. But the moment he finally snaps is when in a dire situation, Dong-ik stops to plug his nose from the repulsive “odor of poverty” before grabbing his car keys under Geun-sae’s body.
Because at the end of the day, the most valuable thing a person, and especially a poor person has, is their pride.
And I would know, as a member of the lower class myself.
Although I don’t have the misfortune of living in a semi-basement dwelling like the Kims, but a house above ground, I am still from an Asian family, where saving face and preserving one’s honour means everything. We don’t like to accept help or donations from anyone, because we don’t want to appear weak and helpless. We suck up the pain, pretending that everything is okay when it isn’t. But all those direct blows to Ki-taek’s pride, a man who has lost so much, became too much, and he fell even further below as a result of his actions. He lost his home. He lost his daughter, and potentially, his son. He carries an ever-present “poor person” smell. And it’s something the wealthy have to pause to resist, even at a time of crisis. Ki-taek, to some extent, came to understand Geun-sae when he explained how and why he uses the lights. I like to see Ki-taek defending the pride of poor people when he stabbed Dong-ik. But he immediately comes to regret his actions. He escapes into the bunker, and once the door is closed behind him, he weeps. We see him sincerely apologising to the poster of Dong-ik by the light switches. It takes a lot to make a grown man, let alone an Asian one, cry. My heart ached for him.
Speaking of Dong-ik, he’s brought to light many interesting parts of Ki-taek when they interact in the Parasite. Dong-ik implies that he doesn’t wholeheartedly love his wife, and it’s easy to see that Ki-taek is bothered by this. Poor people have to rely on their family heavily, and this relationship can strain very easily due to hardships. Ki-taek is bothered that a family can have so much going for them, and yet Dong-ik cannot love his wife with all his heart. The very first object Ki-taek saves from their flooded dwelling is his wife’s silver medal for the hammer throw. Early on in the film, he says he’s proud of his son when he goes for his tutoring interview at the Parks’ house. Ki-taek deeply cares about his family, he just can’t show it with the luxuries that Dong-ik can afford. He even has a cheeky side to him too, shown when he gropes his wife’s rear at the Parks’ home. He’s not just a poor person struggling to survive, but someone with needs too, though middle-aged. He’s such a fleshed-out character, one I’ve practically written an essay about. Heck, most of the main characters can have essays like this written about them because Bong Joon-ho does a brilliant job of characterising them all. But I digress.
So… how would I rate this film? After watching several analysis videos on Parasite’s mise-en-scene and cinematography (admittedly still not paying enough attention to its score), not to mention considering the depth of each character and the startling realism of the story’s events, this film deserves a solid 10 out of 10, five stars. The only nitpicks I have are some I share with Cr1TiKaL (penguinz0), who gave it a 95/100 on his Moist Meter. I believe it’s because a few of the movie’s jokes missed, but generally, they hit, and those that did were pretty good. I was a bit frustrated sitting in The Capitol Theatre, listening to other people laugh. I felt like I was forced to laugh at a joke I didn’t feel was funny, because other people were laughing too. But still, I feel these are such tiny nitpicks, and with some of the jokes even being lost in translation, that I feel it’s an injustice to give this film anything less than what it deserves. A rightful 10.
I sincerely hope highschool and university film courses and subjects incorporate Parasite into their syllabus/curriculum. The final movie I studied in RMIT’s Introduction to Cinema Studies was There Will Be Blood, which I feel Parasite outranks immensely. It would also be an interesting final topic, foreign language films. This movie deserves all the talk and praise that it’s been receiving. I can’t recommend it enough. Please purchase/rent it on Youtube or anywhere it’s available, and support the incredible Bong Joon-ho’s films and his remarkable cast and crew.
Thank you for reading! If you liked this content, please consider subscribing via email. From here on out, I’ll be attending my university classes, so I can’t promise to upload something every week. If I do, it'll be something definitely much smaller and personal, so I don't have to do as much research. Also, feel free to comment down below! Tell me about your perspective on Parasite, or discuss one of my points in my review. And that’s all from me this week. Goodbye~!
Further Viewing / Pages Linked (in order of appearance):
- Boon Joon-ho (Director) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bong_Joon-ho
- Parasite (Film) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasite_(2019_film)
- The Capitol Theatre - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Capitol,_Melbourne
- 92nd Academy Awards (Oscars) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/92nd_Academy_Awards
- Parasite Plot - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasite_(2019_film)#Plot
- Parasite Themes and Interpretation - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasite_(2019_film)#Themes_and_interpretations
- Parasite trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xH0HfJHsaY
- Vulture's Comment in the trailer (1:25) - https://youtu.be/5xH0HfJHsaY?t=85
- Black Comedy - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_comedy
- Insider YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHJuQZuzapBh-CuhRYxIZrg
- Insider Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yTG8Z5xqm4 and timestamp (0:55) - https://youtu.be/3yTG8Z5xqm4?t=55
- Visual Architecture - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvO8-925Edc
- Translated ending Song - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJAsBzFmUXc
- Vanity Fair's Opening Analysis - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP-eqx2X9AY
- Boon Joon-ho saying the Park family are parasites - https://youtu.be/Rv_DzVn6CcM?t=447
- BBC Merlin - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merlin_(2008_TV_series)
- Uther Pendragon - https://merlin.fandom.com/wiki/Uther_Pendragon
- "Odor of Poverty" timestamp (7:35) - https://youtu.be/ci-gFovSJf0?t=455
- Cinematography of Parasite - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF6O93noHRc
- Cr1TiKaL Youtube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq6VFHwMzcMXbuKyG7SQYIg
- Parasite Moist Meter - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c192sOqscmI
- RMIT Introduction to Cinema Studies - http://www1.rmit.edu.au/courses/006063
- There Will Be Blood - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Will_Be_Blood
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