It’s crazy because Ive watched SO MANY Parasite analysis videos and EACH ONE points out something totally different. It’s so crazy how Parasite is so symbolic in so many different ways.

Just a fyi, Korea is 70% mountains. It's not that exaggerated when the Kim family have to travel so far down to get to their house from the Park's. The rich really do live on top of them for exactly the monsoon season and better view/atmosphere,etc.

The street that the Kims live on is one hell of a set. It feels so real.

At min 7:22 the mother takes pictures of the beautiful flowers with her smartphone. This is exactly the place where the old housekeeper is buried. A symbol for the fact that poor people are only the fertilizer for the garden of the rich.

something i think a lot of people missed is the part where the "poor" dad explains how the best plan is no plan because plans always fail. this is proven right throughout the movie, from the family's plan to infiltrate the rich house to the "rich" dad's plan to scare everyone at the birthday party. this is especially important because the son's letter at the end begins with "i made a plan" therefore implying that his dad will forever be stuck in the basement.

0:23~0:26: Did you guys notice the housekeeper reluctantly "crossed the line" and immediately withdrew? I mean.. the line which the edge of the windows makes. Bong used the line as the barrier between the classes. Oh.. the window edge also shows Kiwoo and the housekeeper belong to the same (left) side of the window.

the level of detail that was put into this film, from the way it was shot, to the production design is just mind-blowing.

I loved how the dining table always had a seat for all the characters but it was always empty

I particularly like the scene when Ki Woo(the son), refused/think twice when walking down the stairs and looking at his drowned home, but the water keep dashing against him and 'flush' him and his family back to where they truly belongs, so symbolic.

Parasite is legitimately one of the best movies I have ever seen and is the best one I have seen in theatres. I cannot describe the thrill and joy and terror and sadness those two hours blessed me with. My god, what a film.

I think a good movie is seen when people still talk about it after watching it, parasite is definitely a theme of conversation, it’s not just a “it was good!” Type of movie, it made everyone in the cinema to analyze and think about it, I think that’s a very important factor in movies.

I am an architect, and these intricate details Director Bong used to construct the storyline is what most viewers tend to overlook as they are busy piecing together the plot. You have done a good job in elaborating them in your video. Very informative !

I was blown away by this film. The last 35 minutes especially. That's why movies are my passion and I want to spend my time with them. For 35 minutes like that

This is by far the best movie of the year, it'd be a shame if it didn't win best picture at the Oscars

I couldn't help but get chills during most of this video; you captured so many things I've wanted to put into words for a while. The fact that Parasite tackles the larger structures and systems that create the class divide, rather than trying to blame the individual "bad apples" within those structures, is what makes it so different from many other "eat the rich" narratives. Terrific stuff, mate.

I think subconsciously we notice these things, this video just articulates them. One thing that struck me was had the Kims and the old housekeeper come to arrangement, everyone could have gotten what they wanted, but instead they starting fighting one another. I think this is very telling about society as well.

Parasite is a masterpiece , a visual storytelling difference between the upper and lower class. The movie will be studied by wannabe filmmakers for ages.

imagine if the directors were like "didn't notice that, but yeah."

Director Bong is a genius. But you also are impressive to catch even those minute things. How is he so good at visualizing? Here's one clue: he has one talent that other directors don't have --- drawing. He's good at drawing. (Actually he used to be a cartoonist for the students' newspaper when in university. And this talent seems to be natural, because his father was a designer.) He's so good at drawing that he can visualize his ideas easily (like, on the storyboards) before shooting. This's a huge advantage other directors don't have.

The moment the mom pushes the former maid down the stairs with her foot while hurrying to serve was both a laughter moment and a sad one at the same time.So much symbolism there. Also the windows thing, windows are a privilege and tell where you are in the hierarchy Edit:The movie won best picture yeii

Bong Joon Ho has a nickname in Korea called Bong Detail. This fantastic video completely shows how he gets the name

What makes this movie a winner, is how much conversation is going on about it after seeing it. I never saw the perspective of what you just described. But now it makes the movie richer visually. The story line, the actors, the set, all being talked about more so then most movies. A craft, an art and a story well presented.

Love this! I couldn't help but also think the whole film as a sort of literal and metaphorical ladder to reach the top that shatters any scope for empathy. To reach the top requires one to be a parasite; to have a lack of empathy for anyone around you (the Kims towards the former housekeepers' family and then eventually the other way round) and quite literally kick them out of your way.

I see a lot of comparison between joker and parasite. The joker portrayed the class divide with huge angst, anger and hatred towards the rich. Parasite on the other hand showed the world just as it was. It showed the kind of life and choices needed to sustain the life one currently has. Parasite showed how interconnected the world was. That without the poor, the rich couldn't maintain their lifestyle or be rich without to poorer consumers buying from their business. The poor also kinda need to rich for jobs and many necessities for them to buy. But the most interesting scene for me is the part where Jessica was bleeding out and Mr. Park was asking for the car keys. They were both fathers, trying their best for their dying child. Could you blame the father for prioritizing his son and asking for his car keys? Could also blame Mr. Kim from staying with Jessica, as she was his daughter? But in the end the divide was clear. While both fathers were trying to save their child, only one had the capacity to act immediate--the man with his own car. But he had to kind of rely on Mr. Kim to give him the keys. Much like how the wealth of the rich is reliant on the purchases of the many poor. Mr. Kim had to deal with it however he could. Futile with his efforts as she was stabbed in the heart, maybe portraying that in the end, that poor people are trapped. No matter how much he'd stop the bleeding, she'd still die.

One very strong metaphor for me is the fight between two poor families that is happening in the basement of the rich family's house. It definitely is not put there just for dramatic effect. As I see it, it is a clear visualisation of the struggle that lower class has to deal with in today's society, the struggle that is happening all of the time, the fight between those in need for better jobs, higher status and salary's, but to get to them you have to be better than bunch of other lower class people who want the same thing. The thing is, number of available positions is restricted, and only few are going to get there. What you get as a result is fight in which every possible way to get to your target is justified. Simply put, it's a bloodbath. And while this is happening, the rich are enjoying the life, having a laugh, partying, and underneath them, in their near distance, sometimes even in their own basement, the battle for survival is happening, the battle they themselves are not even aware of, and why should they be? Lower class struggle doesn't affect them in any way, and it's not until that very fight compromises their own convenience, that they become aware of it's existence.

The screenplay is mindblowing and very original. i hope it gets the Oscar’s.

Excellent video! I'm working on my own at the moment and it's interesting to see how many different things you took out of the film that I never had considered. I think it's why the film is doing so well, everyone is walking away with something different but we all have one thing in common...we can't stop thinking about it XD All fantastic points, beautiful editing, really appreciated this!

This film is so haunting. I’m still thinking about it.

I just saw the film a couple days ago, and the ending really stood out to me. I immediately thought about the myth of The Dream of success, and how they will work and wait and hope for when the opportunity comes, though it probably won’t. It won’t undo all they’ve lost already.... the years of struggle, pain, isolation, the death and maltreatment of those in the same situation (the previous owners)... the idea that once the son gets /his/ way, all his father will have to do is come up the stairs. He must achieve the improbable for even the chance to elevate others. “Until then. So long.” Chills. The details about the physical barriers really helped explain a lot of what I was feeling but couldn’t articulate / quite pinpoint. Thank you for this video. You’re one of my favorite channels!

Parasite should take home the best picture at the Oscars!

6:44 and 7:30 I'm glad you pointed this out. Many people noticed that Mr Park ignored Jessica's injury and was only concerned about getting his own son to the hospital on time, but not only was Jessica's wound obviously fatal, the Kims did shit like that all the time. They were more than happy to frame the maid and chauffeur so they could take their jobs, and the mom literally kicked the maid down the stairs and didn't care at all about her when she laid there dying.

I'm so glad this movie got so much recognition, Bong Joon Ho is really great, his english movies are good but his korean movies are fantastic.

House built for a film?! The dedication. Wow. Loved this movie without knowing tiny details. Thank you for the video!

“Parasite” is like a beautiful architecture. So crisp, sharp & meticulously done!

This is the best scene analysis of “Parasite” I’ve ever seen.

Nailed it. I hate the criticism of this film you often hear that goes, "It was just a 'poor people good, rich people bad' movie." People who say that immediately betray how oblivious they are of the film's themes. It's not about being a good or bad person. It's about the deep flaws of the very structure itself, and how it pits human beings against each other.

This is one of few truly perfect and precise films

BEAUTIFUL film, nothing but a MASTERPIECE

It was brilliant, the dichotomy of light and dark was so well executed. As a lover and interior designer of contemporary homes, the home was an added bonus. The scenes transitioned like visual poetry. The cinematographer absolutely made this the best film of the decade in my Opinion.

The lighting, symbolism and color palette diversifies and brings the entire film to life. Truly a beautiful and unique film that deserves well recongition.

This movie is one of the best I've seen in years. So refreshing to see movies can still surprise me in an age of constant repetition from blockbusters, sequals and remakes.

'Parasite' wins Best Picture (and 3 other awards) at the Oscars....yay! So deserved. Thanks for an interesting video about a remarkable aspect of the film...

You deserve way more recognition man! This was one hell of a video. The things you have uncovered in this masterpiece of a film, made me respect this movie and YOU even more. Thanks!

"He might be able to move a family from one end of the spectrum to another but can't remove the physical separation between them." This is true actually. Let's take an example of highly successful people who rose from bottom like, BTS, Bill Gates and many more self made people. Even though they made to the other side, it's only them. BTS rose but they would never be able to take the entire underdog industry with them. It's just only one people would be able to make it to the other end. It's the growth of only individual, You should be able to withstand unbearable pain, agony and struggles to get there. This explanation actually cleared my view about what Bong is actually trying to say. Class system was there and it will always be there and that's why this movie have no villen or no hero, at some point all of them are villen. This is not the story of an individual but it's the story of mass. He just illustrated it with the help of three family.

Well done. Keep these in depth analysis coming. Whatever happens at the OScar, Parasite will be a film that would be talked about for a long time. Being a reference for higher level film-making.

4 Oscars!!🎬🙌History made. Well deserved.

At 8:48 you said about the son's fantasy of getting the house and there's an empty road to the left and you can't see the end. Almost to say his journey/dream to getting the house is empty with no end. Just my little take on that.

Great analysis! This definitely did the movie and Bong Joon-Ho's directing justice. Keep it coming!

This is a very interesting dichotomy of using elevation to illustrate class separation, and this is all the more ironical because traditionally in Korea, it's usually been the poor who lived up high and the wealthy lived down below. In the days before the Seoul landscape was completely renovated, so probably up to the 1980s, we used a word "달동네" which literally means moon neighborhood or moonlight neighborhood, and these were neighborhoods that dotted the sides of hills all throughout Seoul. Think of the Brazilian slums that exist almost vertically up the sides of hills. That was what it was like, and with the high population density of those neighborhoods, coupled with the narrow roads, that meant that no cars or buses went up that high, so all residents had to walk up steep hills to get home. They were probably called moon neighborhoods because the busy people usually only saw their houses in the moonlight during the week. That's what it was like, while the more affluent classes lived in the valleys, in expensive apartments.

Man, what a video. Excellent analysis, Thomas. I seriously think this is the greatest picture we have had on the last two decades. What an amazing artist Bong Joon Ho is.

This might be your best video yet. Absolutely stunningly described !

Of all the Parasite review videos that I've watched, this is the best one! Good job!

Holy shit i was going to make a video with the exact same thesis, but there you went and did it good job sir.

Wonderful video! Idk if someone mentioned this but when Ki-Woo is talking with Min you can see that there are 2 streets behind. Min's goes up, while Ki-Woo's goes down.

Wow! This video really shows what is the role of a director in movies! Sometimes we are cautght thinking about: "If there is a great cinematographer, like Roger deakens, that probably helps to make a lot of technical decisions in the movies, like camera movements, angles, etc, or if there is a good production designer, what is the directors role ?" I think that this video anwsers this question. A director go beyond of deciding which angle or shot could be better! he/she must guide everbody and explain how the scene must seem like, to extract the best from his team, and connect everything.

Thank you for this video and explanation because it's like I felt what Bong Joon-ho wanted to convey but I didnt totally understand why and now you've explained it and it's so satisfying.

I love the movie and I like how you explained the details of how they made this movie. It really deserves all the awards it received.

You should watch Accented Cinema’s analysis. Yours was equally as great too this film never ceases to amaze me. A true modern masterpiece.

Love love love this!! Dude, this film gave me chills, this analysis gave me chills by the end. THIS film makes me want to become a better filmmaker desperately, and to tell even better stories. These analysis gives me better understanding of the tools at our disposal, and how and why to use them.

Good point ! 'Contrast' technique is very good skill to express the opposite meanings between the good and the bad. Thanks for your insight !

This is what film is all about, not Aquaman or Avengers, Hollywood movies these days are just rough and flat.

i thought about the vertical aspect of the directing, mainly because of that main part about them descending after the rainstorm. but not the horizontal. that's genius

This is SO MUCH hardwork put together to analyze a movie. It has no extra things, there's amazing editing, the voice is soothing and the script is well thought :)

You guys did such a GREAT job!!The video is amazing and THANK YOU

"This is so metaphorical" says Kiwoo repeatedly.

Fantasy rich Ki-woo is semi-unrecognizable

you can see the class difference in this videos sponsorship. while thomas is very articulate and deserves all his subscribers, people like tyler have to pay him money just to be noticed by other viewers. also theres great symbolism in the fact that in the sponsorship frame thomas' name appears big and mid frame, while tylers' small and beneath him. further more in the commercial itself, while u see tyler well enough, u always hear thomas' voice over him, basically legitimizing his existence. great video!

Your analysis of Parasite is brilliant, eye-opening. The film is a masterpiece.

Something I think gets missed is the bond the families have. One is a true family who has each other, works together, supports one another in very real and unconditional ways. The other is obsessed with status, reliant on tutors and counselors to parent and guide their children - with whom they share no warmth or bonding with. The daughter is always upstairs in her room and the son in his fantasies of appropriating a culture so far from his own that it seems to be a symptom of his lack of paternal guidance. While the members of both families are desperately concerned with social and economic status, only one of them is a family in the true sense of togetherness. The Parks have a loveless marriage in which the wife - as with her everyday existence- relies on heavy doses of sedatives just to be intimate with her husband. They aren’t concerned with the feelings of their children, just their behavior and test scores, which they offer no help or guidance directly to them in order to improve. One of the main contrasts in the many symmetries of Parasite is how the families interact and the meaningfulness and unconditional nature of their bonds. The Parks are never seen laughing and ribbing one another and having a great time, going through lines to prepare for the next steps in their schemes, etc… Though both families have massive character flaws, only one can be called a loving family even if that love is a bond of shared values of deceit, greed, obsession, etc… It’s spot on to say there are no good guys or bad guys and that the film is a commentary on South Korean society and it’s extreme disparity of wealth and class. There are also differences in the way the families act towards the others in their family that don’t get a lot of exposure in the analyses I’ve seen. I thoroughly enjoyed this one and it’s definitely one of the better ones on YT.

I have never had a more visceral experience then what I experienced watching this film. It’s perfect.

Beautifully articulated essay! We found the verticality of the film in terms of characters' movement and what it said about their places in society and their aspirations, nefariously attempted or not, so striking! It's one of the things that we could not stop talking about once the movie ended.

this is the best essay I have ever seen on youtube!

Academy finally did it. And parasite really deserves best picture.

I also loved the part where Kim family drank from the Filite(One of the cheapest beer in south Korea) to the Heineken, and finally to the expensive whiskey to show that alcohol also represents the social classes on the society. Bong Jun Ho used ppl in the finest way possible.

I’ve watched this movies 2 months ago and each video I watch about it I learn something new! So much nuance in one film it’s amazing

This is a awesome analysis about this movie. Congratulations.

People have been talking about every aspects of this movie, even about the chappageti/ram-don. This movie really is a masterpiece and a treasure box, the more you watch it, the more you know it's meaning

I got chills from the rain scene

I watched this movie tonight and no KZfaq analysis can truly do it justice. This movie NEEDS to be seen. This movie CHANGES your expectation of movies as a whole. The entire time I was on the edge of my seat. This movie is just on a whole different level compared to most released in the past few decades, at least for a western audience. Bravo to this movie The director disserved more awards than he got I am still reeling from this movie hours later, in awe of the masterpiece it truly is No review will ever truly do this movie justice, and I watched several both before and after

thank you so much for this wonderful detailing

Just when I thought my mind couldn't have been blown any more, you give me this metaphor about the sunshine and light. Bruh.

Great video!

Man, the things you notice... bravo. Great videos, very clever observations.

Many thanks for this ! This analysis is great! The film is so deep.

One of the best film I've ever seen!

The fact that they have a stair to use their toilet also relates to Marxs’ analysis in his manifiesto that the workers only feel human and get their enjoyment when they’re doing their natural activities such as defecating in this case.

Great review! 👏

This is, no doubt, a cinematic masterpiece. Being an admirer of Korean's film industry, I absolutely admire how beautifully made this film was made. I am so happy that Parasite became the first foreign film to win the Best Picture in the Oscars. Thank you, Bong Joon-ho, for creating such a marvelous work of art.

This movie pulled a gasp from me. That never happens

This is the best picture I have ever seen

wow this is a fantastic analysis, great job.

thx for make me realize these details.... its incredible

Bong’s movies show class disparities and yet how we all are connected on so many levels. And I don’t think there is any “tackling” of that division in Bong’s vision, as many claim so. He stays neutral. It’s realism, not political commentary.

The parasite is just elegant visually understanding and beautifully dipicted movie.But I feel it is a simple movie.Story is quite simple.and The way it is shot was hyped.A telugu movie by name anthu leni katha was made with much more complexity in those days that too in black and white.It is just the time that makes any movie extraordinary than actually it is..

A movie in this caliber deserves the Oscar's a hundred times over. Thanks for providing this movie a deeper meaning proving that socio-anthro and Foucault can give as much relevance in everyday life.

Great content, bro!

Imagine what the original housekeeper/hidden husband & the Kim family could’ve accomplished if they didn’t fight each other.... lol they really would’ve been finessing the Parks

Spoiler alert. Where I really felt the movie took its place as a masterpiece was how Bong played our internal stereotypes of what a protagonist should be. Upon first thought, the protagonist appears to be the Kim's but I found myself questioning that. And ultimately came away with feeling that the protagonist wasn't a person but an idea. There's a shakespearean quality of portraying the "tragic hero", but that too was pulled away from my grasp. In the end Kiwoo pronounces his plan to go on the straight and narrow to liberate his father. There's no redemption here but just the idea of one so he doesn't fall into the category of a tragic hero. What I was left with after many nights of thinking about the last scene was, Bong never once display any moral shortcomings of Mr Park which would have enabled him to reach the top echelon of society. Meanwhile, we are left with Kiwoo's plans and by any surface those plans are attainable..... but we, probably as a community, walk away feeling his plans are attainable. Though again, they should be possible just like Mr. Park. Therein, there is the underpinning feeling the role of destiny... which is our own projection and our own limitation of success... or do we hold tight to our own dogma that the only way to reach the top is through corruption? Clearly that is not true... but then why not Kiwoo? I'm going to watch this again... excellent film in a long time!

This was a brilliant analysis! Yes it is ultimately the structure that has created the division in the first place... Most of his movies highlight the extremities people will take in order to push out of these structures - that they perhaps didn't choose but rather society's structure looped them in.

This movie really got me, never expected what it became, awesome!