Parasite (Korean: 기생충; RR: Gisaengchung) is a 2019 South Korean black comedy [8] thriller film directed by Bong Joon-ho, who co-wrote the film with Han Jin-won. The film, starring Song Kang-ho , Lee Sun-kyun , Cho Yeo-jeong , Choi Woo-shik , Park So-dam , Jang Hye-jin , Park Myung-hoon , and Lee Jung-eun , follows a poor family who ...

There are many, many other examples of Korean culture and language making this film unique. However, I do want to talk about the history and background that brought this film to light. In 2014, the MV Sewol sank nearly a mile offshore from Donggeocha Island. 304 people died, of them almost 250 were high school students. The reaction to the ...

2025年1月28日 · Parasite, South Korean thriller and black-comedy film, released in 2019, that was the first Korean film to win the prestigious Palme d’Or at the Cannes film festival and the first foreign-language film to win the Academy Award for best picture.

2020年7月21日 · The Korean word for “parasite” is gisaengchung (기생충). Every member of the Kim family has a character in their name that is a homonym to a character in 기 생 충 – 기 택 (Kitaek, the father), 기 우 (Kiwoo, the brother), 기 정 (Kijung, the …

2020年2月10日 · The black comedy "Parasite" is a tale of two South Korean families - the wealthy Parks and the poor Kims - mirroring the deepening inequality in Asia's fourth-largest economy. The film made...

Directed by Bong Joon-ho, this South Korean masterpiece captivated audiences worldwide with its gripping story, masterful direction, and poignant social commentary. This article explores why “Parasite” is celebrated as the best South Korean movie to win an Oscar and how it has influenced both cinema and cultural perceptions.

2020年3月15日 · One of the reasons Parasite won 4 Oscars is how smooth it was for a non-Korean audience to understand the movie. Parasite was able to overcome “the one-inch barrier of subtitles,” that Boon Jong Ho, the film’s director, mentioned in his award acceptance speech at the Golden Globes.

Bong Joon-ho directed the film Parasite, which won the Palme d’Or at the 72nd Cannes Film Festival and the Best Director Award at the 92nd Academy Awards. Set in contemporary Korean society, the movie is a stark expose of the problem of class division and the difficult life of the underclass, which arouses deep thoughts among the audience.

2020年9月23日 · "Parasite" is a social critique of Korean society, in which the stereotype of a poor but united family and that of a wealthy but dysfunctional family remain visible, as well as how everybody in society plays a role based on their status, adding to the formula the intangible divisions between social strata.

2020年7月13日 · Bong Joon-ho’s award-winning Parasite beautifully depicts the realities of class conflict, wealth and social inequalities- all defining features of the post-colonial world. Set in Korea, the film follows the life of a poor family, the Kims; that con their way into all getting employed by the same rich family, the Parks.