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Parasite
File:Parasite (2019 film).jpg
South Korean theatrical release poster
Directed byBong Joon-ho
Screenplay by
  • Bong Joon-ho
  • Han Jin-won
Story byBong Joon-ho
Produced by
  • Bong Joon-ho
  • Kwak Sin-ae
  • Moon Yang-kwon
  • Jang Young-hwan
Starring
CinematographyHong Kyung-pyo[1]
Edited byYang Jin-mo
Music byJeong Jae-il
Production
company
Barunson E&A Corp
Distributed by
Release dates
  • 21 May 2019 (2019-05-21) (Cannes)
  • 30 May 2019 (2019-05-30) (South Korea)
Running time
132 minutes[2]
CountrySouth Korea
LanguageKorean
Budget₩13.5 billion[3]
(~US$11 million)
Box office$104.8 million[4]

Parasite (Korean: 기생충; Hanja: 寄生蟲; RR: Gisaengchung) is a 2019 South Korean dark comedy-thriller film directed by Bong Joon-ho.[5] The film stars Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Yeo-jeong, Choi Woo-shik and Park So-dam, and follows a young man from a poor family who begins to tutor a rich family's daughter, only to start to infiltrate their personal lives.

Parasite had its world premiere at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival on 21 May 2019, where it won the Palme d'Or, becoming the first Korean film to receive the award and the first film to win with a unanimous vote since 2013's Blue Is the Warmest Colour.[6][7] It was selected as the South Korean entry for Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards.[8][9] The film has earned over US$104 million worldwide. With a 9.41/10 average on Rotten Tomatoes, it has the highest average rating of any movie released after the website started in 1998.[10]

Plot

Kim Ki-taek, an unemployed driver, lives with his wife Chung-sook, son Ki-woo and daughter Ki-jeong in a shabby semi-basement apartment. The family struggle to survive, working low-paying gigs. Ki-woo's friend Min-hyuk gives them a large rock supposed to bring them wealth before he leaves to study abroad. He suggests Ki-woo take over his job as an English tutor for the wealthy Park family's youngest daughter Da-hye. In the lavish Park mansion, Ki-woo is interviewed by Mrs. Park and hired. Learning of Mrs. Park's struggle to find an art teacher for her younger child Da-song, Ki-woo suggests a "professional" named Jessica, who in reality is Ki-jeong. Once hired, Ki-jeong leaves her underwear in Mr. Park's car to get his driver fired and replaced with her "uncle's former driver": Ki-taek. The Kims next get housekeeper Moon-gwang fired after framing her peach allergy as tuberculosis. Now replaced by Choong-sook, the entire Kim family is employed by the Parks.

The Parks go on an overnight camping trip, leaving the mansion in Chung-sook's care. The Kims take the opportunity to have a drunken party there, during which Ki-woo confesses that he is in love with Da-hye. Just then, Moon-gwang rings the bell and claims that she came to retrieve something from the basement. The other Kims hide while Chung-sook lets Moon-gwang in. Heading to the basement, the former housekeeper opens a secret bunker, revealing that her husband, Geun-sae, has been hiding for four years to avoid loan sharks. As Chung-sook threatens to call the police, the rest of the Kims, eavesdropping, accidentally stumble into view. Moon-gwang records footage of the new "staff" addressing each other as family, then threatens to send the clip to the Parks. Moon-gwang and Geun-sae then force the four to perform humiliating acts, until a fight erupts and Ki-woo wrestles the phone away and deletes the footage.

The Parks call Chung-sook to announce that the heavy rain has ruined their camping trip and they will be home soon, needing dinner to be prepared. The Kims scramble to confine Moon-gwang and Geun-sae, then clean up and hide. Moon-gwang breaks free but Chung-sook pushes her down the basement stairs, wounding her head. While eating, Mrs. Park tells Chung-sook that her son was traumatized one birthday by what he thought was a ghost coming up from the basement. After a few close calls, the other three Kims leave the mansion undetected. They run back to their apartment, which has been flooded by the storm. They salvage what they can, then sleep in a gym along with other displaced citizens. Meanwhile, Moon-gwang dies from her concussion as Geun-sae cries.

The following day, Mrs. Park throws a birthday party for Da-song and invites the Kims. During the party, Ki-woo carries the rock his friend gave him down to the bunker, intending to kill Geun-sae. Geun-sae ambushes Ki-woo, cracks his head open with the rock, then crashes the party, where he stabs Ki-jeong in the chest. Geun-sae's sudden appearance triggers Da-song's traumatic memory, causing the child to have a seizure. Mr. Park yells for the car keys to drive Da-song to the hospital. The key lands under the fighting Chung-sook and Geun-sae, before Chung-sook kills Geun-sae with a meat skewer. Mr. Park recoils from Geun-sae's "poor man's smell." Ki-taek, witnessing Mr. Park's reaction to the smell, which is also his own, snaps, fatally stabs him, then flees.

Ki-jeong and Mr. Park die from their wounds, while Ki-woo requires brain surgery and suffers a weeks-long coma; he and Chung-sook go to trial and are sentenced to probation. Later, watching the Parks' mansion, Ki-woo notices a light flickering in Morse code – a message from Ki-taek, who had managed to retreat into the bunker, and has been hiding from and living off of the new owners. Ki-woo promises that one day, he will earn enough money to buy the house and free his father.

Cast

Production

Principal photography began on 18 May 2018[12][13] and ended 77 days later, on 19 September 2018.[14]

Release

Director and stars at a press event.

The film had its world premiere at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival on 21 May 2019.[15] It was released in South Korea on 30 May 2019.[2][14]

Neon acquired the North American rights to the film at the American Film Market (AFM) 2018.[16][17] The film's rights were also pre-sold to German-speaking territories (Koch Films), French-speaking territories (The Jokers Films) and Japan (Bitters End).[18] It was released in Russia on 4 July, 2019, and in the United States on 11 October 2019.[19]

The film was originally scheduled to be screened as a closing film at FIRST International Film Festival Xining in China on 28 July 2019, but on 27 July, the film festival organizers announced that the screening was cancelled for "technical reasons."[20]

Reception

Box office

As of 28 October 2019, Parasite has grossed $4.1 million in the United States and Canada, and $100 million in other territories (including $71 million from South Korea), for a worldwide total of $104 million.[4]

In its United States opening weekend, film made $376,264 from three theaters. Its per-venue average of $125,421 was the best since La La Land's in 2016, and the best-ever for a foreign-language film.[21] It expanded to 33 theaters in its second weekend, making $1.24 million,[22] and then made $1.8 million from 129 theaters in its third. [23]

The film made USD$20.7 million in its opening weekend in South Korea.[4]

Critical response

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 99% based on 248 reviews, with an average rating of 9.41/10. The website's critics consensus reads: "An urgent, brilliantly layered look at timely social themes, Parasite finds writer-director Bong Joon Ho in near-total command of his craft."[10] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 95 out of 100 based on 46 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[24]

Writing for the New York Times, A.O. Scott described the film as "wildly entertaining, the kind of smart, generous, aesthetically energized movie that obliterates the tired distinctions between art films and popcorn movies."[25] Bilge Ebiri of NY Mag wrote that Parasite is "a work that is itself in a state of constant, agitated transformation—a nerve-racking masterpiece whose spell lingers long after its haunting final image." [26] In his five-star review of the film, Dave Calhoun of Time Out praised the social commentary and stated that "This is a dazzling work, surprising and fully gripping from beginning to end, full of big bangs and small wonders."[27] Variety's Jessica Kiang described the film as "a wild, wild ride," writing that "Bong is back and on brilliant form, but he is unmistakably, roaringly furious, and it registers because the target is so deserving, so enormous, so 2019: Parasite is a tick fat with the bitter blood of class rage."[28] The A.V. Club's A. A. Dowd gave the film an A−, praising the fun and surprising twists.[29]

Accolades

Parasite won the Palme d'Or at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. It was the first South Korean film to do so as well as the first film to do so with a unanimous vote since 2013's Blue is the Warmest Colour.[30][31]

Award Date of ceremony Category Recipient(s) Result Ref.
AACTA Awards 4 December 2019 Best Asian Film Parasite Pending [32]
Cannes Film Festival 25 May 2019 Palme d'Or Bong Joon-ho Won [30][31]
Blue Dragon Film Awards 21 November 2019 Best Film Parasite Pending
Best Director Bong Joon-ho Pending
Best Actor Song Kang-ho Pending
Best Actress Cho Yeo-jeong Pending
Best Supporting Actor Park Myung-hoon Pending
Best Supporting Actress Lee Jung-eun Pending
Park So-dam Pending
Best Screenplay Bong Joon-ho, Han Jin-won Pending
Best Cinematography and Lighting Hong Kyung-pyo, Kim Chang-ho Pending
Best Editing Yang Jin-mo Pending
Best Music Jung Jae-il Pending
Best Art Direction Lee Ha-joon Pending
Buil Film Awards 4 October 2019 Best Film Parasite Won [33]
Best Director Bong Joon-ho Nominated
Best Actor Choi Woo-shik Nominated
Best Actress Cho Yeo-jeong Nominated
Best Supporting Actor Park Myung-hoon Won
Best Supporting Actress Lee Jung-eun Won
Jang Hye-jin Nominated
Best Screenplay Bong Joon-ho, Han Jin-won Won
Best Cinematography Hong Kyung-pyo Won
Best Music Jung Jae-il Won
Best Art Direction Lee Ha-joon Nominated
Chunsa Film Art Awards 18 July 2019 Best Director Bong Joon-ho Won [34][35]
Best Actor Choi Woo-shik Nominated
Song Kang-ho Nominated
Best Actress Cho Yeo-jeong Won
Best Supporting Actor Park Myung-hoon Nominated
Best Supporting Actress Lee Jung-eun Won
Best Screenplay Bong Joon-ho, Han Jin-won Won
Fantastic Fest 26 September 2019 Audience Award Parasite Won
Hollywood Film Awards 3 November 2019 Hollywood Filmmaker Award Won [36]
International Cinephile Society Cannes Awards 25 May 2019 Best Director Bong Joon-ho Won [37]
Munich International Film festival 6 July 2019 Best International Film Parasite Nominated
San Sebastián International Film Festival 28 September 2019 FIPRESCI Film of the Year Nominated
Sydney Film Festival 16 June 2019 Best Film Won [38][39]
Tallgrass Film Festival 20 October 2019 Excellence in the Art of Filmmaking Bong Joon-ho Won
Toronto International Film Festival 15 September 2019 Grolsch People's Choice Award Parasite 3rd Place [40]
International Film Festival Cinematik 15 September 2019 Audience Award Won [41]
Vancouver International Film Festival 11 October 2019 Super Channel People’s Choice Award Won [42]

See also

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