She is cute.

Furlock Bones said:

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I somehow avoided all of the spoilers for this. Only saw 1 trailer. That was incredible.

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That's the best way to watch it. The winding path this film took was amazing.

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Trident 88 said:

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i Just watched this movie, and I honestly don't understand why almost everyone but me apparently thinks it's so good. What did I miss?

The Parks were 100% the innocent victims in this story. They didn't know anything about the problems that the con artist family was dealing with. Why should they? The Parks thought these people were upstanding citizens doing okay in life, not poor people living in a dump.

The con artists got greedy and made stupid decisions, and they paid for it. Hardly an innovative theme.

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While the theme was standard, the plot was pretty original. That said, I didn't think it deserved the "best" award or even the hype. I don't think it would have received nearly the accolades as a dark comedy if it were American made.

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I disagree that it should not have been best picture. But I do agree If it was an English film it would not have won because the Academy can't get over themselves.

The one difficult thing for me was there were clearly some cultural issues/themes that we can't understand because we aren't Korean.

But, honestly, i was skeptical going into the film knowing how off the rails the academy has gotten. As I mentioned earlier, I was blown away.

tk for tu juan said:

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After watching it for first time last night, I keep thinking of different parts of script and connecting them. When Da-Hye was talking to Ki-Woo about Da-Song faking being genius and just staring in the sky for 10 min, it just clicked that he was staring at that light each time.

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Watched it today and have been thinking about it as well. Great call. And those abstract 'self portraits' really resemble crazy bug-eye basement guy.

Buy me drugs...

seriously, is this a weird translation or meant to have a different meaning?

spanky said:

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Buy me drugs...

seriously, is this a weird translation or meant to have a different meaning?

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Drug laws are very strict, and according to others online they are very taboo to Korean culture. In essence, they link drugs with sex. So, there is a fantasy aspect involved there. It's one of those things that strict translation doesn't always convey the meaning.

Drugs are fun (but naughty). They were getting naughty.

Btron said:

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Furlock Bones said:

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spanky said:

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Buy me drugs...

seriously, is this a weird translation or meant to have a different meaning?

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Drug laws are very strict, and according to others online they are very taboo to Korean culture. In essence, they link drugs with sex. So, there is a fantasy aspect involved there. It's one of those things that strict translation doesn't always convey the meaning.

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Didn't it mean that she was roleplaying that she was the "girl" in the backseat of the car and the driver was precieved to be selling drugs?

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Yep I think that was part of it as well.

Watched it last night. I really enjoyed the first 75% of it, but ended up not liking this movie much. However, it was undeniably finely crafted and directed. If there was an Oscar category for Best Clothed Erotic Scene, Parasite would have won that one too.

Well made movie, don't think it was better social commentary than Joker.

As others said, I don't think all the pieces connected correctly. Parks didn't know that was Kim's daughter, him wanting to get his son got he hospital was understandable since they'd told us earlier he had fifteen minutes or he'd die.

Also, Kims are making all this money, but we never see how their situation improves or changes. Plus, if they're willing to work that hard and they're that good at what they do, why'd they not just be legit in the first place?

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I feel like you missed a lot.

The Kims' situation absolutely changed; they went from stuck in their cramped, dirty apartment, barely able to afford food, to living a fairly luxurious lifestyle in and around the Parks' home, wearing better clothes, eating much better, etc.

As to why they didn't get better legitimate jobs, they were limited because of who they were. They were obviously sharp people, but their lack of education and status limited the opportunities they could take advantage of. They had to lie about who they were to get the jobs with the Parks.

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And yet they were still living in that ****hole apartment that flooded when it rained. They didn't show them in nicer clothes outside of work, which they wore when they started the jobs. They didn't show them eating better except when the Parks left and they were crashing their home without permission.

They should have been making a lot more money, and four people pooling their wages communally should make a lot of progress very quickly.

The son and daughter were geniuses. Why were they not in school? The dad used to be a driver, why did he quit that or not go back to it? Same with the mom, she appeared to be a decent housekeeper.

Just seems the mom and dad, at the very least, could hold the same jobs legitimately. Which, really I think they did other than the reference coming from their kids.

I think they could've used a scene showing how the jobs were improving their lot in life, but they didn't do that. The dad still smelled like boiled radishes, they still lived in a craphole. They did not show their wardrobe improving, and even if they did, that's the only difference between these highly coveted jobs and folding pizza boxes? A better wardrobe to wear to the job that only buys you a better wardrobe?

I feel like you saw a lot that wasn't really in the movie.

Movie was nearly 2.5 hrs, and as much as I loved it, it could've been 15 min shorter. It definitely didnt need more scenes explaining their "come up".

The 5 or 6 episode HBO adaptation will likely have more time to show the 'parasite' family get a better home, etc.

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Movie was nearly 2.5 hrs, and as much as I loved it, it could've been 15 min shorter. It definitely didnt need more scenes explaining their "come up".

The 5 or 6 episode HBO adaptation will likely have more time to show the 'parasite' family get a better home, etc.

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I feel like they could've cut a lot of the weird fingering on the couch and the adult making out with the sophomore and added the scenes I wanted and it would've been a lot better movie.