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Episode 232: Parasite / Best of 2019 / Kelly’s Creepy Predictions V

This week we review a South Korean swindle-horror film called ‘Parasite’, discuss this best things we’ve screened in 2019, & dust off Oracle Kelly’s Crystal Ball™ to gaze into the future. 

Byron McKoy
Editor-in-Chief/Art Director/Podcast Host Mumblehorror connoisseur, murderologist, a bit of a ghoul.
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  2. the “Parasite” movie

    Was surprised at how you described what happened and what it meant.

    I heard and passed on that “Parasite” was not a horror movie as “The Host” and “Snowpiercer” were. It would be like “Mother.” People-being-people was where the any scare would come from. Low-key.

    Both families make the mistake of not letting the sister be the primary child.
    Choosing the son over who had the most natural talent lead to disaster.

    Going through the movie.
    The family folds pizza boxes. A quarter of them were done poorly. At first I thought the father was the one who messed up. Actually, it was the son who did his share poorly. The first clue that he was someone who had huge wants and little ability.
    The pan around their sub-ground level apartment. We see the father was a medaled athlete when young in a picture. When the apartment flooded near the end of the movie it was the first thing Ki-taek grabbed.
    When it came to physical tasks he performed flawlessly. First mimicking the YouTube folding video. Then the driving test. Dong-ik Park had a cup of coffee fill near to the brim. Could this new driver provide the correct balance of respect and performance? Yes, no coffee spilled. Spoke well.

    We are left guessing how the family got to dire straights. Guessing it would sound like people who lost jobs 2005-2009.
    *My industry went away.
    *I went from people always wanting a piece of me to being unwanted.
    *The city died. Nevermore will it be the insurance capital of the world.

    When the sister was being driven home by the family’s driver. She was not going to take her underwear off at first. It was a reaction to the drive being creepy as has happened in the real world. *Hey lady, why don’t I take you to your front door? It will make it easy for me to see you later, if not right now.
    She shut him down hard. Then came the sabotage.

    The girl gets a tutor. The boy get art therapy.
    Should had been golden opportunities. Ki-woo betrayed his friend.
    Romancing an underage girl. Why do that? Really the best way to stop worrying about money was to marry into the family?
    The second clue the son was no good.

    The former housekeeper’s husband living in the bomb shelter.
    The driver getting fired felt OK. Now, things went bananas. We find the housekeeper pushing against the shelving. “That was weird.”
    Heard that South Korea has an ongoing problem of older couples investing in a restaurant, having it go bust and then being a burden on social welfare. In the movie, it was taken a step further. The housekeeper’s husband had borrow from the equivalent of a triad and went into hiding.
    Did enjoy the spooky shot of the husband coming up the stairs and the young son seeing him and being a mess since.

    Just before the old housekeeper threatens to bust the Kim’s though. The son loses his footing. A physical manifestation that he cannot support the family.

    The Kim’s see that they have to tear down the housekeeper in order to bring themselves up. Is capitalism a parasite on humanity?
    Are the Park a parasite on society? Hording so much. Would they be surprised if “There are no ethical billionaires” took root?

    The last scene. Ki-woo fools no one. An imagined future where he buys the house and frees his father.
    With a criminal record and presumed lost of his friend with connections.
    See no way he can get a leg up in the world in order to obtain so much.

    ref:
    Nerd Writer, 60 shots in 5 minutes. “Parasite’s Perfect Montage”
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ma1rD2OP85c
    Eight minutes.

    https://www.slashfilm.com/filmcast-ep-540-parasite/ Has time codes, which will save time to concentrate on the “Parasite” portion.

    https://www.parasite-movie.com/jessica/

    notes to self, been over a month since I saw it:
    writer/director Joon Ho Bong
    Rich family the Parks.
    father Dong-ik
    mother Yeon-kyo
    son Yoon
    daughter Da-hye

    housekeeper Moon-gwang
    husband Guen-se

    The Kim’s
    father Ki-taek
    mother Chung-sook
    daughter Jessica
    son Ki-woo
    son’s friend Min

    P.S. 20/30’s slang: Hard to beat Nicholas Cage as himself as Noir Spider-man.
    *Sometimes I let a match burn down to my finger tips just so I can feel something, anything. Aww.
    *I’m talking hard boys, real biscuit boxers.
    *You gonna fight or you just bumping gums, you hard-boiled turtle slapper?

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