Parasite (2019)

starring Kang-ho Song, Sun-kyun Lee, Yeo-jeong Jo, Woo-sik Choi, So-dam Park, Jeong-eun Lee, Hye-jin Jang

directed by Bong Joon Ho

Ki Woo cons his way into a job as a tutor for the 16-year-old daughter of the Parks, a rich couple. He soon gets Ki Jung, his sister, a job as the tutor of the girl's younger brother. Ki Jung gets the Park's driver fired and gets Ki Taek, their father, hired as the Park's new driver. Father, son, and daughter then work together to get Moon Gwang, the housekeeper fired, and Chung Sook, their wife/mother, installed as the new house keeper. They do not reveal their family ties to the rich family. 

Everything seems to be going great. The Kim family celebrates in their employer's home when the Parks take off on a camping trip. They expect to have the place to themselves and not to get any guests but things don't go according to plan. Moon Gwang returns, desperate for health-related reasons. She needs to get something she left behind. She doesn't know about the Kim's scam until after she reveals she has a secret of her own: her husband lives in a bunker beneath the house that the Parks don't know about.

All hell breaks loose once she finds out what the Kims are really up to and threatens to reveal their secrets. The Parks return that same night due to a rain storm that flooded the camping area where they wanted to stay. The Kim family, other than Chung Sook, have to hide. Fights continue in secret. The next day the Parks decide to throw a party for their son because it is his birthday. Even more hell breaks loose at the party. Blood is spilled. Some people are killed. The story is over but there is an epilogue.

Thoughts

I love how the Kim family works their way into the home of the Park family. It is slowly built and it takes about a third of the movie to get to the point that all three of them have been hired by the Parks. It isn't too long after that that things begin to unravel but it takes a while before things go nuclear.

This was a wild ride once things started to go downhill for the Kim family. I did not foresee where the story was going. There is more to the movie than what I have described above. This is a South Korean film and I watched it with subtitles on.

I'm really glad I watched it. It was hard to stop watching once I started. I only checked the time a couple times. The movie is about 140 minutes long but it did not drag at all.