#MovieMonday: Parasite: A Perfect Blend Of Many Genres

There already are many reviews praising the heavens out of Parasite (2019 movie). Rotten Tomatoes has a critic approval rating of 99% and an audience rating of 93%. It’s the third highest-grossing film in South Korea, earning six nominations at the 92nd Academy Awards, winning Best Foreign Language Film at the 77th Golden Globe Awards, and receiving four nominations at the 73rd British Academy Film Awards.

It also made the top 10 films of the years of many critics around the world.

But this is Goody Feed #MovieMonday, and you know we don’t do the mainstream things here.

You really think we’ll be blindly following the crowd and commending Parasite the same way?!

No! We’re doing it cause it’s just that f*cking good (Parasite is rated R, by the way, but there’s no nudity).

If you haven’t already, then closing this and immediately watching it will be the best decision you’ll make today – and perhaps the whole year.

Watching this movie spoiler-free is the way to get the most out of this movie, so I’ll emphasise this again: stop reading, and go watch it NOW.

#MovieMonday: Parasite (2019): A Comedy Thriller That’s Also Many Genres

Ask someone what Parasite’s genre is, and the easy answer is black comedy. One thing’s for sure: the movie is damn funny with very smart humour. Beyond that, the movie manages to amaze with the blend of so many genres that I just can’t tell you what Parasite is supposed to be.

It’s a movie that makes you happy and sad; that causes you to laugh and feel scared at the same time.

You can say it’s a little social satire. The movie is about a bottom-of-the-barrel, low-SES family that’s all unemployed and has to do things like stealing wi-fi and folding pizza boxes for money.

There’s also another family that’s high-SES and can basically afford anything.

By chance, a guy from the poor family managed to get a job tutoring someone in that rich family by pretending to be a university student.

Making use of this opportunity, he starts a ploy to scam the rich family.

His plan: to bring his entire family in as workers pretending to be skilled workers who don’t know each other.

Which means that the rich family doesn’t know that their workers were all related the whole damn time.

That’s enough of the plot.

This is so important I have to tell you yet again: go watch it now without spoiling even more.

Just Brilliant

Although Parasite is quite clearly a social commentary, it never felt like it was shoving a message down your throat. Every scene remains entertaining by itself.

One of the most incredible things this movie managed to do is storytelling through its visuals. The lighting, the cinematography and how it manages to connect scenes together are nothing short of brilliant – you can see why it was nominated for Best Pictures in the Oscars.

On second and third viewings, you’ll likely notice things in scenes you’ve never considered on your first.

Music is great.

You’re not going to see any of the characters here as 2D caricatures of the poor and the rich, which many movies seem to do so. Each character here felt like real people that I could relate to, care about, and I understood their intentions and reasonings in the film.

All the praises are really well-deserved.

And really… I tried so hard to make this spoiler-free for you.

Go. Watch. It.

Seriously. What are you waiting for?

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