Film
Parasite
Ki-taek (Song Kang-ho) is a good-for-nothing, unemployed family man, patriarch of a family of grifters — his wife Chung-sook (Chang Hyae-jin), his clever twenty-something daughter Ki-jung (Park So-dam), and his son Ki-woo (Choi Woo-shik) — who live in an overcrowded, sordid basement. The Parks, on the other hand, live in a fabulous house with their teenage daughter Da-hye and terribly spoiled son Da-song, who has suffered a childhood trauma that occasionally causes seizures and strange behavior. When, due to an unexpected stroke of luck, Ki-woo is hired by the Parks to be the private English tutor of Da-hye, the destinies of the two families cross. Their explosive meeting exposes the merciless evils of class inequalities, culminating in a powerful and utterly original outcome.
An urgent, brilliantly layered look at timely social themes, PARASITE finds writer-director Bong Joon Ho (OKJA, SNOWPIERCER) in near-total command of his craft. The first foreign film to win Best Picture, PARASITE is not to be missed.
Available on Hulu
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Genre
Fiction, Comedy, Drama, Foreign Language, Thriller, Discover Together
Runtime
132 min
Section
Discover Together
Release Year
2020
Director
Bong Joon Ho
Producer
Bong Joon Ho, Kwak Sin Ae, Moon Yang Kwon, Jang Young Hwan
Cast
Song Kang-ho, Chang Hyae-jin, Park So-dam, Choi Woo-shik
Country
South Korea