The Ending Of 'Parasite' Explained | Pop Culture Decoded

[@Creepjacker]

That shot of the basement dude peeking over the stairs is easily the creepiest shot I've seen in a film in years lmao

[@b.pack3]

mojambo213 plus him chasing the son knowing he was eventually going to grab the metal bar attached to the end of his noose! Haunting shit.

[@jeonsplanet7839]

i would have a seizure too if i saw something like that staring at me

[@johnpickens7626]

That one got a big laugh from me for sure so I was either amused or really scared.

[@lisaw6219]

Why was his eyes bulging out like that?

[@willjackson6522]

mojambo213 I looked away as soon as I saw this scene and I am NOT going to rewatch it, so can someone describe to me what the dude looks like in it

[@jm-jq4qu]

just noticed that in the Kims' house, you have to try to get in the highest place possible to connect to the internet while on the Parks', the internet is working even on the lowest point of their house.

[@NatalleeK]

that's genius omg

[@genova8148]

Omg the symbolism

[@majarimennamazerinth5753]

Nicely spotted!

[@NeonCupcake121]

I didnt even make that connection but that is so true. there is even a line that i think the daughter says stating that the wifi works in the basement

[@inhumanassassin6302]

Touche!

[@jordand7009]

When their house is flooded, the wealth stone floats because it's fake, making it a symbol of false hope - a fundamental theme of the movie.

[@aryanarya5982]

This is one of the best observations 🙌

[@manveerpalsekhon7591]

But it sinks in the river

[@johlangonzales1128]

Manveerpal Sekhon because the river is not that too deep

[@aryanarya5982]

@@johlangonzales1128 it doesn't matter if water is shallow or deep. It should float though.

[@pavankharche7014]

But at last It sink in river. So your statement doesn't make any sense

[@Blessed_Sound]

I feel like the reason why I'm spending hours in this comment section is because I felt like I watched 3 movies in 1 and I'm trying to process everything.

[@ikra291]

same honestly

[@GauravSingh-hh8bw]

Yes This.

[@anujaodhekar6021]

I am 700 person who liked this post

[@anjali-mu1hb]

I just watched it today.

[@huonggiangnguyen4250]

Same here. I’m considering putting this movie as the BEST one I’ve ever seen!

[@Cergun_]

I love how they foreshadowed that the old housekeeper keeps her husband in the basement when Mr. Park said that the old housekeeper's only downside is that she eats enough food for 2 people.

[@sleepytime677]

Cergun omg I gasped when I read this. I just now got it. Wow. This movie is genius

[@nandiled4685]

Damn these secrets were right in front of us

[@Ebizzill]

i didn't catch that till you mentioned it. wow.

[@escapistreader3860]

Oh yeah! Thanks

[@davidgilmour4058]

OMG I just realized that!!!

[@angelina-gg6zs]

That shot of Jessica lighting a cigarette on her exploding toilet is mindblowing.

[@lotussight]

@Harry Hart Yep the contrast between Jessica in the bath "you look so good... you look like you belong there" (quote from the brother) versus the one where she's on the exploding toilet. Also the difference in "mouth" props - wine vs. cigarette (rich vs poor)

[@kayatalbert3127]

Exactly lmao

[@PandaSap]

I thought she was committing suicide. In the clip right before that she was quite angry with the whole situation. So i was confused when i saw her in the next clip in the gym with her family.

[@catrinad2491]

Er... "Mind blowing" is a bit over the top to say, but it is very profound.

[@shalakagaikwad2477]

Also it symbolizes that she has accepted her fate, her situation n later her death. During her death she keeps in saying don't press the wound it hurts, she is smiling n laughing while saying that. There is pain but moreover she has accepted her fate.

[@luv1p13c3]

The saddest part is the happy ending is fake and the son still living in the poor and doesnt even have way to send the letter to the dad

[@h3145]

Good. Let the murderous father rot.

[@beymani6904]

lol why you so affected?

[@celyn4304]

Hueight Lifting Damn who hurt you?

[@jonadol]

and even though it is the son's plan, his father has always told him that all plans fail, kinda foreshadowing that the son's plans to buy the house and stuff will fail.

[@monmz4297]

Zhia Chen I actually did not understand the ending quite well, at first I really thought that it was true but when I thought about it after seeing the film, I started to question how had he sent the letter to his father, and that’s when it all clicked

[@SailorTeam]

Did anyone notice how at the beginning of the movie when the fumigator came, and the fumigation filled the room, the father was the only one unaffected. At the end of the movie he was the only “pest” still left at the Park’s house, as if he was unaffected by the “cleaning” by the realtor sharks?!?

[@sinjadiskzkzkz1237]

MINDBLOWN DAMN!!!!!

[@mxrijx]

He was another “parasite” at the end..

[@badammeena7612]

Why only 300likes

[@Hi_S784]

Your explanation deserves at least 20K likes. What a perception!!!

[@hameemmahmud1825]

Holy!!!

[@heykyu5892]

I can only imagine how Min would react after he comes back from his abroad trip and learns about the whole incident

[@TheMusti64]

He'd be like you had one job dude! (I forgot the son's name)

[@hootowl905]

Da seong

[@r4ze549]

@@hootowl905 he's not talking about parks , he's talking about kevin

[@seherling207]

To be honest, at the end I would have loved a reaction shot of Min

[@TheMusti64]

seherling it would've ruin the artistic style of the movie

[@calvinarrow]

Prior to the kid's party, Mrs. Park was seen trying to select a glamorous outfit from her huge closets then it cuts to the scene where a lot of poor people in the evacuation camp were scrambling to get something from the pile of used, donated clothes.

[@lotussight]

Whoa forgot about that I love how Bong is constantly comparing the lives between rich vs poor without it being so blatant and the story still flowing.

[@Tan92lfc]

South Korea is developed nation, yet Emergency and despair are the same everywhere in the world.

[@deepstariaenigmatica2601]

@@Tan92lfc Seoul & busan are developed. people naturally think that the entire se is developed too but that's not true

[@Chill_330]

Ikr it was sad

[@papaco9561]

I remember that. Thought it at first

[@jaymeeashley]

“ she’s rich and nice” “ she’s nice because she’s rich” , this movie deserves all the attention and awards, the metaphors, the real deep dark meanings and the outlook of different class is amazing.

[@h0tj0hn]

This is very true. When you're hungry, it changes everything you know about yourself, rich people can't relate much to this..

[@jeroydimasuay6105]

@Username Ok bootlicker.

[@awhestellie]

My family r not rich but mom, she nice to anyone. Some poor ppl are kind too

[@etc6615]

Jaymee-Ashley hi 👋 Coming from a third world country where extreme poverty is more prevalent and far worst than in this case-south Korea, i find your observation rather simplistic ✌️. To say the rich are nice or niceR because they are rich OR the poor are NOT nice or niceR is for me ‘problematic’. Though I understand that poverty can lead a person to criminal activities just to survive, many rich people do criminal activities as well for whatever reason people deem fit. I have seen first hand extremely poor people share what little they have. I have also seen ‘poor’ people do unnecessary crimes because they prefer not to work or whatever reason they dim fit. What i am saying is ultimately boils down to a person’s value system. Pitting the rich vs poor can lead to dangerous conclusion. This video said that the rich were EXPLOITING their staff but this is UNTRUE. Their helper was being paid well and treated WELL. Though Mrs Park was shallow and can be insensitive, It is not the rich’s fault for being rich. Hiring someone and paying them well is NOT exploitative. The video also said that the poor were fighting against each other. Concluding that it is the rich people’s fault because they WANT to keep the working class divided”. This is UNTRUE as well. Rich people fight against each other as well. People are just people. BLAMING the other ‘ class’ is simplistic, disingenuous and dangerous. It is the nature of reality that there will always be people on top and at the bottom. History has already shown us how trying to pit classes against each other can lead to dangerous end. Does this mean nothing can be done to help the poor to improve their lives? Of course not. It is our social duty to find ways of helping. Another conclusion of this video ( or the movie) is that it is almost impossible for the poor to improve because the problem is systemic . I agree to a degree because GOVERNMENT CORRUPTION is SYSTEMATIC in our country. But i disagree with the conclusion that it is almost impossible for the poor to improve. Much of the world came out of the ashes and started from zero after the war. Many of the middle class to the 1% richest came from nothing. South Korea is a great example of the indomitable human spirit. Sorry for the long text. As a mother of 4 whose grandparents were immigrants who came from nothing, it is worrying for me that this Victimhood is spreading in the hollywood and now Asian films. Having a social conscience is paramount for a healthy society. I would rather the message be positive rather than perpetuate a defeatist Victimhood mentality where we are confined to our circumstances. Anyway, peace and more power to you ❤️

[@goyangi2014]

2pongz True. But that does not justify inhumane behaviors.

[@waqassaleemkhanutube]

Min asked Kevin to take tutoring not because he was his friend, he asked Kevin because he thought he was the safest bet. He thought the daughter wouldnt like him because he was poor.

[@7evensabre]

Woah man, these comments just keep getting better

[@sethreburiano108]

I agree on the safest bet part. But about being poor i dont think it matters because he plagiarized his application so in the eyes of the girl he isnt poor

[@thedreamer1535]

Min's plan also didn't go well like the rest in the movie!

[@Meninist977]

man, that's just heartbreaking to be honest

[@gistil472]

that was kinda obvious lmao

[@gabbykim6942]

I just realized that in the beginning of the movie, the mom comically said “you should’ve brought food” when they received the stone from the son’s friend. This draws a parallel to when Jessica could have brought food to the man in the basement but instead the son brought the stone, causing the following murders.

[@amisha9903]

Nice take on those scenes

[@pkshabbaboy]

Damn nice catch now im so deeply amazed lol

[@KaLa1865_]

Gabby Kim holy shit

[@iliotomeo275]

Excellent take

[@stansb1951]

Oh my god

[@sissybear94]

The actor who plays Kim Hi-taek is beyond talented. To be able to show so much anger, disgust and embarrassment in such a blank face is amazing

[@matthewperez555]

Which person was that? I can't remember names well lol.

[@azumi0032]

Matthew Perez I think the father i.e. the driver

[@rabbiqa]

*Ki-taek

[@BelchiorFelipe]

the face he makes when he pulls the “bloody” tissue from the trash (peach scene)... impressive acting indeed haha

[@user-sj6zu9dv5b]

That actor Song Kang-Ho is legendary actor in korea. And also he did many movie with Bong. Especially The Memories of Murder!!! MUST SEE

[@muttipassata]

I spent like half an hour just looking at these comments, this movie is like a bottomless pit when it comes to realisations and hidden messages. One of a kind film.

[@supremekingowl9350]

Agent Music I been scrolling enough to find your comment and I'm in the same predicament

[@kavishvadukul5925]

Agent Music nah not one of a kind but very rare, just watched fight club for the first time and I too found my self endlessly scrolling through comments

[@kayatalbert3127]

For real

[@Mila9355]

If you love these kinds of films with hidden messages, check out "Eyes wide shut"

[@DurAMi]

Me rn 🐵

[@nadiaxantho]

Y'all are forgetting that the rich dad *planned* to do a fake attack on "Jessica" and the plan *didn't work out* the way he intended and she was actually stabbed.

[@koyle.j]

Oh my!

[@-zerenity-2322]

Also it further strengthens the Kim father's statement of having no plan is the best plan, in which its never good to have a plan because nothing ever goes according to plan

[@robbieedwards1456]

@@-zerenity-2322 Murphy's law

[@jessiearroyo2636]

Is that why the father killed him?

[@sirandrewaguecheek6512]

Jessie Arroyo no i think it was mr.parks constant commentary on his distain for the poor

[@alexchromy9684]

remember when the mom said that they haven't had a birthday party at the house ever since the kid saw the ghost, and as soon as they do it at their house it all goes wrong.

[@somethingforyou345]

omg...

[@shreyashideb8185]

Damn

[@darthslayder6904]

that poor child is going to be traumatized for life

[@schrodinger8605]

You just fucked with my mind bro

[@littleympe2570]

That kids is going need some intense therapy

[@xdmemes5821]

I think her saying “the rain last night was a blessing” really summed it up for me

[@ollieols2064]

xd memes agreed👌

[@EXtraTerrestrial28]

Blessing for her but disaster for others 😞

[@murtujafiros4488]

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[@jinjunliu2401]

@My Thoughts I don't see how the specific storm in the film would be a blessing for farmers. Because that amount would just destroy half of the crops and weaken the rest

[@yulana990]

​@My Thoughts I have no idea how you watched the storm in the movie and even mention farms, like jin jun said, that would definitely not help farmers in ANY way, as too much water would still ruin them. Also about your global warming point, I hope you are kidding as global warming is not just ice turning into grass, that's ridiculous. Multiple european countries have reached peak heat last summer, the Netherlands was also close to breaking the record from 1944 but LUCKILY did not break it. The fact that a country that is cold almost broke a heat record set in 1944 in 2019 is ridiculous. Then there's the australia fires, so no, it's not just some lands flooding and cold turning into grass. It's cold country becoming insanely hot in the summer and the weather going insane, like snow in February, and countries that are already hot either flood or turn into big fire storms like Australia. All of these options are awful, and are already happening all over Europe, Asia and Australia.

[@averypiper9833]

BY FAR the scariest scene to me is when the old housekeeper is running down the stairs and calling out "Honey!" and we have no idea what's down there. While the Kim's are following we're thinking about someone who is dead or nearly dead down there. *That scene breaks all the trust that we had, along with the Kim's, that they were in control.*

[@emikoch5096]

It's like we were watching one movie, and the moment that door opens it changes to something completely different. Such a powerful moment

[@joesheridan9451]

That bit was legit horror movie scary for a couple of moments

[@willsimpsart]

@@emikoch5096 EXACTLY. It was such a sudden change. The maid became someone totally different to me

[@thefourthreich2039]

My heart pumpes at the scene.

[@madbellil]

Avery Piper I thought the Park’s had someone hostage down there, I really didn’t know what to expect but my heart was racing like crazy

[@elainefundal8421]

The fact that the kim's toilet is higher than their living space, exhibits how they're even lower than the sewage system.

[@shutupdude0082]

I- wow

[@Thekyurawcity]

Well noticed

[@arshadnazir9435]

The key is for us it's "Well noticed" but for poor it's "common sense"

[@booosh6350]

Wat

[@katherinevillarin7452]

@@arshadnazir9435 I get it

[@aleeyahmarie3650]

Why is no one talking about how in the beginning min said he trusted Ki-woo to tutor the parks daughter and he would officially ask her out when she went to university then Ki-woo still pursued her and mimicked his lines of officially dating her when she goes to university. Ki-woo wanted to be min that’s why he always followed the mantra of “what would min do” and why he valued the rock so much

[@ZEROnoobTOLERANCE]

Interesting, I didn’t think about that (clearly no one did) made me think about Min’s introduction scene when he scared off the drunk peeing around their window. The father praised Min for being vigorous, somewhat implying to his son that he doesn’t display the same character his father desired from him. Ki-woo also uses the same word “vigor” during his first lesson with the park daughter to prove he is just as capable as Min was to the Park mother. Later on when the drunk returns Ki-woo takes the initiative to shoo him away, at first holding holding the rock.

[@subramanianv5533]

@@ZEROnoobTOLERANCE wow you're right! That makes so much sense!

[@megatronn5816]

It's like poor people wanting to be rich by imitating what they do. By "Pretending"... I just realized that when Min and the guy was talking... he emphasized the fact of him needing to pretend in order to be accepted as a tutor In fact all of them were pretemding...

[@donbuddha8341]

@@megatronn5816 ki woo while tutoring literally says "be sure to use the word PRETEND twice"

[@megatronn5816]

@@donbuddha8341 oh my god

[@satiratoria]

The movie starts being so bright and funny even at the economic situation they are at, that you don't expect it to get that dark and deep. Is amazing.

[@purple_siren_8624]

the vibe changed halfway and i wasnt laughing anymore.

[@bibii6741]

i feel like the vibe gets darker and darker as they realize how big the gap really is between the quality of life is between them and the pro family

[@tillykitchen4683]

How is it funny?

[@satiratoria]

@@tillykitchen4683 Because at the beginning it's more dinamic, they are more jokes and laughs, the economic situation doesn't seem as serious as it does as the movie keep going.

[@flytrapYTP]

@@tillykitchen4683 there's a lot of comedic scenes. Even in the second part, only with the atmosphere being so different that you don't laugh anymore.

[@Zero8880]

This film sums up how most of the world felt after watching and listening to Gal Gadot and other rich celebrities sing “Imagine” while self quarantining in their huge mansions, while the rest of us are wondering if we will still have a job or be able to pay rent after the shut down.

[@jayess8714]

Absolutely! That video was the absolute worst

[@tasya1286]

reality hits us like puberty

[@Chill_330]

DAMN

[@franksinatra2858]

Yep

[@hilelpaley900]

yessss!!!! bro when i saw that clip i felt so much hate towords gal gadot and all the rest of them, but i didnt understand why - - - UNTIL NOW!!!

[@jules6731]

One thing I noticed is that at the end in Kevin’s “dream”, when the rock is returned to the river, it blends perfectly in with the other rocks. This could symbolize Kevin’s idea of blending in with the rich. It makes sense for me especially after he asks Da-hye if he’d fit in with people at the party.

[@Ruuuuu0o0]

what dream i didnt see anything plz explain

[@AbeerKDas]

@@Ruuuuu0o0 like when he was writing a letter

[@Ruuuuu0o0]

@@AbeerKDas ya i saw it again i got it thanks

[@ConnectWithClips]

These comments just get better and better

[@AlexWellbelove]

The rock also sinks in the dream, which contrasts with the flooding scene earlier where the rock floats. This shows how detached the dream is from reality.

[@cdee406]

if this was a book, it would be every english teacher’s dream the symbolism, the climax, the ending, this screams socratic seminar

[@escapistreader3860]

LOL

[@ApatheticRobot]

I don’t think a book would’ve embodied this movie as well, especially with the smooth camera movements, the montages, and the music. This is a film teacher’s dream for sure.

[@luluharshie3929]

I would love to have a socratic seminar about this movie. None of my friends or family are into film like me

[@3aRChuu]

ROBLYN Castelo • I think it’s fine to not like the movie, cuz it’s your opinion, but this movie doesn’t just reflect the life of only South Koreans too. Even if “hierarchy” isn’t forced upon people, it’s a thing that’s inevitable. You can see it. And the feelings and actions portrayed in this movie are to show that people always get some kind of annoying thought or feeling in them because of how they’re treated, and the thoughts and feelings take over them, causing them to make bad actions. No one in the movie is technically good or evil because of this. It’s just how society works, and the movie is basically revealing that this kind of problem can’t really be fixed in reality. It’s like a sad truth

[@luluharshie3929]

It’s ok guys ROBLYN Castelo doesn’t have the mental capacity or ability to look further into the film rather than what’s presented on the surface.

[@ricksanchez8584]

Remember when the mother said the dad would go hiding like a cockroach if he was caught

[@prachi76]

@Ben ohhh this story's so fking connected but soo amazing

[@violetagonzalez6017]

Korean directors are setting the standard sky-high

[@skylerspence7878]

"If the Parkers walked in right now your father would run away like a cockroach the second they turn the lights on"

[@ravenaroteros]

Woah wtf ...

[@joaolimao9381]

D U D E

[@utkarsh8mishra]

Ok, so no one's talking about this.. Park's daughter (Da-hye) is disconnected from her rich family. We see very less of her with her parents, calls her little brother an imposter and so on. And it becomes evident, when her mother doesn't offer her noodles which results into a quarrel between the two. This strangely correlates to the 'smell' objection of the Park family. Da-hye is the only one who hasn't complained in the movie about 'smell'. Her father, mother and brother, all three at sometime in the movie have complained or got disgusted by the smell of poor people. On the contrary, she fell in love with Ki-woo (Kevin).

[@eureka7876]

I always felt like she was ignored by the rest of the family, hence she had to look for affection elsewhere, i.e Kiwoo.

[@bonsaiwithluv]

nice observation. your comment made me think that she might be the only one who doesn't fit in her family, just as Jessica fits more in the rich setting than in her family

[@utkarsh8mishra]

@@bonsaiwithluv Yeah

[@joshuawatson8757]

Also how she disregarded Kevin’s concern about not fitting in adds to this

[@bahars305]

@@bonsaiwithluv exactly. And in the birthday when the chaos gets started, the parks all get injured in some way. The dad with knife, the son has a seizure and the mother faints. But the daughter is pretty okay carring her boyfriend on her back..p

[@Yabadabadoo29]

*I just remembered that the old housekeeper wanted to listen in on Jessica and Mrs. Park's conversation about what must have gone wrong with the son. Now it makes a lot of sense why she wanted to be involved.*

[@shamitabangera101]

I realised that just now.. thanks

[@HorrorDiva01]

@@shamitabangera101 me 2, like she knew that "the ghost " was her husband all alone and wanted to make sure he didn't spill anything on that lol.

[@loloinspirit6716]

Ohhhhhh nice one

[@pastelpinksparrow9436]

OMG TRUEEE

[@TheCrandel]

Just thought of this. The mother was talking about how the boy was traumatised by seeing a ghost on his birthday and ever since that birthday they have always gone out of the house for his birthday. The one birthday they decide to do at the house again the man/ghost shows up.

[@Isaacreeper]

Damn irony

[@Veiledvibes]

Whoaaa!!!

[@ithriz2556]

And also father's death day.

[@Risyanab]

I knew immedietely that shit would happen when the mother said shes going to throw a party at home

[@kayatalbert3127]

I knew it yeah

[@leolora4980]

The saddest, most mindblowing aspect of the movie is towards the end, where the son writes to his dad starting with “I have a plan..” and proceeds to elaborating his plans on getting his dad out. But more than halfway through the movie they had a conversation at the evacuation center where the father gave him only one advice: “Only one plan ever works out: no plan at all.” And that hit me in the saddest way because we know the son will be working really hard and will be planning hard to get his father out but we know that his dad was right. His plan will never work out.

[@terencewong9662]

wow you caught it! mind blown

[@MrGamecatCanaveral]

@altkovac he didn't. And we know this.

[@RaymondHng]

@altkovac The achievement of that goal was only a flash-forward fantasy being played out in Kim Ki-woo's mind. His fantasy is shown only to us the film viewers and no one else, not even his father. The following shot of the present-day Ki-woo back in his sub-cellar tenement destroys any glimmer of hope the viewer has of him ever achieving that goal. It's the cinematic language of the Kuleshov effect the film director uses to spell out the outcome of the film.

[@MrPabgon]

I don't really think so. The fact of not having a plan is what made the father get locked for years in that basement.

[@uaena182]

on top of this, the director said it would technically take around 546+ years for the son to make the money to buy the house.

[@ChaChaaa]

You know it's a masterpiece if every scene in the movie means something. Metaphorically or literally.

[@ayeg4174]

cant even imagine how the process of making this film was like its mind blowing.

[@tmtmtm520]

aye g exactly

[@Jpako7]

Anyone know any other movies like this? Where there’s a lot of metaphors and symbolism? Get out and Us come to mind

[@rajnandini5968]

@@Jpako7 watch black swan... It will blow your mind

[@huhjanus]

well mostly people overanalyzing it but yes

[@XxdextriousxX]

The scene with the man peaking from the basement from the kid’s perspective was bone chilling and brilliant. That scene haunts me to this day. The idea of a man watching you from a dark hallway is creepy enough but to experience it as a child? Traumatizing.

[@franzi6371]

@ABISHEK DARJEE omg i never thought about that

[@rimsha3780]

And moreover, I wonder what happened to him after the catastrophic death of his father, on his very birthday. Trauma takes so long to heal even with therapy and medication but the poor child had to witness his perfect life crumble and relive that moment for the rest of his life. Chilling.

[@XxdextriousxX]

@ABISHEK DARJEE I don’t think he really grasps classism yet more so that is hella creepy seeing a stranger peak from below. And they depicted his face as a ghost mask from kids POV. The disgust of the poor is whole heartedly the parents

[@gemahuerta6475]

@@rimsha3780 well the mother did say that after having a seizure you only have 15 minutes to get to the hospital before it’s too late. They never ended up making it so I’m assuming he passed away on the day of the party.

[@angelicalago5058]

@@gemahuerta6475 I wonder what happened to her big sister.

[@pranathi826]

You know what's the scariest genre of all : reality

[@LanceWillMakeIt]

Umm

[@reyjiemariola34]

Umm

[@seanw2386]

heuheuheu hyuk hyuk yes

[@ishani4204]

Umm

[@soundsoul4796]

heuheuheu hyuk hyuk except the ghost scene where his head is peaking through slightly 😬

[@sujalbhaktashrestha4944]

This comment section should be in the end credits of the movie

[@danieladiaz9719]

Agreed omg everyone is so observant

[@themysteriousdude757]

No it shouldn’t, if he has to tell you what he tried to show you, the movie was pointless. People figuring it out for themselves is what makes it a masterpiece

[@Chill_330]

They ate smart af 4:42 am 6.20.20

[@sujalbhaktashrestha4944]

@@themysteriousdude757 calm down that was a joke

[@-khushlush]

😂

[@fiordalizaavila1592]

Also, I don’t know it’s obvious, but they tried to get inside and replace everyone to the point that even the man that was in the basement was also replaced by the father.

[@sylvia5623]

Nice. Like a self-fulfilled prophecy.

[@sprinkleofjasmine5912]

Yeah thats like the whole plot

[@pbird.entertainment]

DEEEP (literally)

[@guilty_as_sin]

they tried to replace and be a high class family but in the end they're still at the bottom the reality is just dark and sad tbh

[@Spooky_Psyche]

Honestly, it makes me think... who's the real parasite here? The poor people, or the big, fancy house itself? The poor people invaded and overtook it like a parasite, but in doing so, the house overtook and destroyed their lives. The dad is even a prisoner to the house now.

[@jonathanglass4223]

The irony when you see the audience at the Oscars giving this film an inordinate applause, unaware it’s subliminally aimed at them.

[@jacobvachirawit981]

HAHAHAHAHAHA I--

[@fangirlmode8705]

Ohhh... savage. LOL

[@eugenelevin9809]

99.9% of those people are not the problem.

[@liambrewerpowerlifting]

not even subliminally. they're literally applauding a deconstruction of their wa of life

[@visiblestars7937]

Lmao didn’t think of that

[@winterflower2002]

It touched me when the woman on the backseat said "its good that it rained yesterday" sitting behind the driver whose house literally was flown away by the water from "yesterday's" rain.

[@dryashd]

I actually laughed hard at this scene when the driver looks at her like "what an asshole she is to enjoy that rain"

[@ishane]

Yash star laughed?? bruh i was just thinking about how much of a privileged asshole i probably am

[@amrit9302]

What an asshole Kim is to scam the rich family, sneak into their house and steal liquor and food, not to mention even breaking the glass cups and giving a shit, and then kill the rich owner for no good reason; yeah right Kim family got what they deserved

[@shiloh8734]

I think that’s strange because it’s no one’s fault that the rain flooded their home. However, The Park’s house is up higher therefore the rain would have never flooded their home. But the Kim’s house is basically underground so they got flooded. The flood is also another motif to their opposite arrangements. Nothing happens to the rich but the poor get the short end of the stick.

[@jeanpaul9705]

Silo Green It’s also about climate change because the poor are the most affected.

[@harshikapeeyoosh2993]

These comments made me think, how lightly have I seen this masterpiece.

[@jimmu8689]

Harshika Peeyoosh we all interpret something different from art

[@Chill_330]

Same

[@fractal_mind562]

I watched the film over again because of this comment section ! I would never have got the reference between the water fighting scene and the torrential downpour !

[@Madmax-pj9bh]

Yah me too! I always think why can't I see those details which other people can see 👀

[@Luca48882]

90% of the details don't matter at all, nor will be remembered in any way or form when you remember or talk about the film. Only way to see it lightly is to not get the core messages

[@mhamieyoo]

*Min comes back from abroad: "ALL YOU HAD TO DO WAS TUTOR THE DAMN GIRL!"

[@arisenpai4116]

Rian Karlo Punzalan this deserves more attention then its getting lmao

[@eureka7876]

Haha. I always wonder what his reaction would be.

[@jkblnc5706]

bruh... this should have been included in the movie

[@jonh387]

Intructions unclear, kissed the girl. Got the father killed.

[@flytrapYTP]

@@jonh387 instructions unclear: replaced all personnel with my family.

[@meyakookiyara669]

When you found out that Jessica(ki jung) , (park so dam )in real life actually studied art and is an art therapist............

[@-khushlush]

RESPEKTTT!!

[@kristinabanh]

when you find out that kevin (choi woo shik) is actually quite fluent in English cause he lived in Canada during his childhood years .....

[@mlbbnublord9035]

@@kristinabanh RESPECCCCKTT

[@Nokdu.]

@@-khushlush RESSSPEKKCT!

[@renjunwith0patienceforhaec608]

@@kristinabanh it just shows they chose the best actors for this movie cause even them can relate to their own characters

[@tomicazivadinovic]

Do you remember when old housekeeper cuts of camera wires to get into the house, at that moment she unconsciously helped Kim to get away after the party, the key moment for me in the movie

[@epicsillyrainbowdog9858]

omg yeah

[@Agent_OB]

uh duh

[@luciluciluci]

i started reading your comment but ended up singing September

[@Jo.-]

I didn’t get it

[@TanuAgarwal__]

Excellent 🙏🙏

[@brotherimzee]

You should also mention how Park praises his workers who "don't cross the line." This can be seen as a metaphorical line between the rich and the poor.

[@simonmccross16]

Yeah also the line represents human dignity. When the Park family returned from camping they only gave 8 minutes of notice to the Kim Mother. 8 minutes is not enough time to cook. They could have told her 1 hour early the very least. In a sense while Kim family tried to cross the social class line, Park family kept crossing basic human dignity line. Treating them as if they were just tools to be used. That's why Mr. Kim killed Mr.Park, he crossed the line with his indifference while a person was dying right in front of him.

[@anonanon8447]

Wow people really try to read into this film way too much. Youre like jessica bullshitting Mrs Park. The father is Mr Parks servant. He msut show respect.

[@anonanon8447]

@@simonmccross16 Mr park wanted his keys to drive to the hospital and save jessica. ? For some reason kim stabbed park then. Did i misunderstand something? I thought kim just froze and snapped.

[@anonanon8447]

@Samuel Runt Thats what i thought, which is a pretty hugely unjustifiable reason to kill someone. If thats the case, the kim family is thrash to me. If its because park wont drive jessica to hospital, then its redeemable for mr kim.

[@user-ik9bl8xv2f]

@@anonanon8447 About your first comment, they mentioned this line multiple times throughout the film. If it did simply mean that a servant should show respect, I don't think they would have referenced it as much as they did. Also, this takes place in modern day. There is not really a concept of "servant," the point of the entire film is to show that the rich do not view the lower classes with dignity, as PEOPLE. Not servants, but PEOPLE. As for your second comment. Mr. Park first told Mr. Kim to leave Jessica and drive them to the hospital for Mr. Park's son! And when he didn't get up, he then told him to throw him the keys. Mr. Park had no intention of saving Jessica's life. None of the rich people did. They only cared about the Park son who had fainted.

[@camiller4100]

"Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable." -Cesar Cruz I suddenly thought of this quote while watching this.

[@medusaspupil]

Your comment disturbed me and comforted me at the same time.

[@upondeath]

Wow...

[@bluejeane11]

wow...

[@saeedvazirian]

What if it's poorly made art or overrated art? So far there have been enough films in the last 6 months that made me uncomfortable because they were overrated, not because of the content of the films. This is why dramatic quotes should either never be used or used only with a grain of salt.

[@khadak8923]

@@saeedvazirian Hmm.. I'm sorry you look so wise but I failed to understand your Statement.

[@paulasosa4623]

One thing i also noticed : When Park's daughter asks Kevin about Jessica and suggests that he may be her boyfriend, he immediately denies and seems kinda nervous about it, making a whole story about meeting Jessica for the first time that day. When comparing both of the girls with flowers, Park's daughter checks Kevin's pulse on his wrist, just like he did on their first class. She then remembers what he had told her about the "heart never lying" thing and leans for a kiss, mistaking his fast pulse for feelings. What I really think is, that his fast pulse is not because he has feelings for her but the fact that he's been lying from the start and feels constantly nervous and pressured on not being caught

[@morpher728]

But Kevin liked her didnt he

[@gloksta.]

Morpher yes

[@aabriahchapman8546]

@@morpher728 i dont think he likes her I think he's trying hard to be like his friend just so he can move up in society as he repeated the exact same thing his friend told him to his family

[@aliceminnie9437]

@@morpher728 I think, at first he did not like her and was trying to woo her so that he can become the son-in-law of this rich family. But at the end, he does have true feelings for her.

[@wordsmith-2232]

craazy.crazy comment. But he ended up liking her tho. Yet good one!

[@inmiddleofsomewhere2455]

did anyone noticed how when he wakes up from the brain surgery he says that the doctor doesnt sound like a doctor and detective doesn't sound like a detective? they were so used to rehearsing everything perfectly themselves that everything else seemed not..right to them

[@racheljohnson7177]

i noticed this too!

[@wajz9984]

I noticed it too!! Ive tead this somewhere 'A cheater thinks everybody is a cheater and a liar thinks everybody is a liar' and i couldnt stop thinking about this during that scene

[@inmiddleofsomewhere2455]

@@wajz9984 yesss they project their own qualities in others.

[@JuanPablo-lt3us]

reaching

[@nijatniyazov8841]

Can you explain what he wants by saying it ? I didn’t get :/

[@ankitlama8391]

This has to be one of the best comments section in youtube... Mindblown reading all comments

[@vantestars.v]

exactly..

[@mysteryman2213]

Bro i was going to be comment the same 😅😂 wow am amazed by the comments

[@mattpk1609]

True. I just came home from the movie and I can't stop reading

[@reveerys]

i've been stuck in this comment section for almost 30 mins now and i still can't stop scrolling down... everyone is so observant, it's crazy

[@Vlisk90]

exactly. jesus wow.

[@albertorafaelespinosa2815]

In the beginning scenes of the movie, Mrs. Park told Kevin that they've been through many Art teachers and none of them lasts a month. I guess that was Jessica's early premonition.

[@shreyashideb8185]

Never thought this way... God damn

[@marcywantsto7553]

holy shit

[@purple_siren_8624]

omg Mrs park is the smart one at the end lmaooo

[@AyratHungryStudent]

Even if this was not intentional this movie is so genius it deserves every credit we give it.

[@dazai19]

woah woah woah

[@geminibaby47]

8 months later but I made a small discovery: In the scene when they’re all eating their hearts out at the buffet, the daughter asks her dad where he used to work, and she’s surprised that he used to do all these odd jobs but then he replies “After the bakery went out of business I had to” flash forward later when they’re all in the basement, the man who’s been living there said his bakery foreclosed, and him and his wife ended up taking out loans with the “loan sharks”. I don’t think that was a coincidence !! I think they’re father worked at the SAME small business, once again drawing a parallel between the two families! I can’t remember the scenes exactly but if anyone has any more information feel free to tell me.

[@Stephen7764.]

Do you perhaps know what was the symbolism of wife being the hammer thrower. I don't know why but I just don't understand that little detail - it has to have some meaning right?

[@ltd8346]

It is definitely another parallel drawn between the two families, and probs why the father seemed a little more sympathetic to the man in the basement.. but there's also some background to it. The Taiwan cake was a huge hit in South Korea few years back, so there were thousands of small bakery businesses featuring it. Then a TV show did a report on how these bakeries use vegetable oil in their Taiwan cake recipes and painted it as bad and unhealthy. (fyi it is not, adding vegetable oil is pretty standard in a lot of cake recipes) So not long after a majority of these Taiwan cake bakeries went out of business, ofc the owners had hard times. It's a pretty well known story in SK... so it really gave these characters more sense of reality for the audience as well.

[@bequietdontcry4218]

@@Stephen7764. i thought about this too and my mind recalled the scene where the husband was at their basement house during the flood we can see him trying to save a frame with a medal in it so the wife probably was a professional hammer thrower back then and the medal belonged to her edit: i just rewatched it yesterday and the mom was indeed a hammer thrower they even showed a picture of her doing it next to the medal at the very beginning lol how did i miss

[@minority86]

@@bequietdontcry4218 she did a hammer throw when they were in the yard

[@cuppy3117]

yea cuz the camera even zoomed in to the dad

[@tartescitrons]

I’m Korean and a lot of people in Korea talked about how unpleasant and uncomfortable they felt after watching this movie and that’s why they didn’t like it so much. I think it’s because this movie brought up the fact and the reality that no one actually wants to face. Sometimes the reality can be very harsh but that doesn’t mean we can always put it aside. I’m glad Mr.bong made this movie and gave us food for thought while everyone just watches just fun/exciting stories that most of people can’t relate.

[@keenotski]

well, that's korea for you. covering everything up with grandeur and make-up and plastic surgery to feel better about themselves. sad reality is, its not only in korea but in different parts of the world.

[@Xavi7Vengeance]

Something similar happened in México with Roma. A lot of people started to hate Yalitza Aparicio because she is from a poor family and now is famous and she can help her people. Even the movie helped to improve the labor conditions of the women who work as maid. But as I said, a lot of people here started to hate her and blame the movie because It expose the reality in México about the abuses who suffer the poor people. (Sorry if my English Is bad)

[@mithunr1394]

Everyone wants Happy ending. But life is one mean nasty reality we need to accept. Trust me I am in India.

[@teddington95]

Lol what are you on about, most Koreans love the film and proud how well it is doing- it is a well known fact that many of the best selling Korean movies nowadays like to criticize politics, society and what not.

[@Brisom]

Tarte they felt uncomfortable coz they’re so pampered with all the shallow kdrama series. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@fernandomontes3168]

Notice how the dad said plans never go out the way you want them. At the end we can see that the son is relying on his plan to get his dad out which means...

[@veganmagick7251]

Oh that's so true...😱

[@cocomuffin4666]

NOOOOO WHICH MEANS IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN 😭

[@redsea4801]

Brroooo !!! I just got the chills

[@ari-ds4zi]

Woah! Second one I’ve found that shocked me! This one and another comment that talked out “eating for two”

[@evolve6392]

Yeah and his dad is now the new parasite in the home , guess what parasites do to the host

[@inarazayn1666]

Who else knew that exactly when the maid rang the bell, ALL HELL WOULD REIGN

[@MissBophaLokei]

yeah I would never invite her in. what a reckless move. everyone was drunk everywhere was trashed and they let a stranger in!

[@AMA-bg3bn]

i was literally mouthing “don’t let her in” and then they jus-

[@Illum1ne]

She ruined their plan.

[@strawberrybaby5600]

ikr,,, i got really anxious at this scene

[@sharsasuke01]

Even after that they could have still salvaged it by just feeding the guy in the basement a couple times a week.

[@rotycanai]

i love the parallel in the movie. when in the beginning of the movie, the Kim's family was eating stale bread that has bug (parasite) on it, and at the end of the movie in the scene of the party (15:03 on this video), the rich people white bread has their employees blood on it, which is their parasite. GENIUS !

[@PintuYadav-gp1jk]

woah...

[@prapanthebachelorette6803]

Good eye on that

[@maliahashmi]

Woahhh woahhh

[@meowmeow9144]

Underrated comment

[@TheElectricOracle]

I’ve seen so many comments saying how all of this could have been avoided if they hadn’t let the old housekeeper in, but why isn’t anyone talking about how if they’d agreed to keep the housekeeper’s husband a secret + leave him food every two days, things would have worked out fine? The Ki family became everything they deplored. Chong-Sook found herself in a position of higher wealth & status than the old housekeeper, yet didn’t live up to her promise of ‘being nicer’ should she have found herself in that position. She was insistent on reporting the old housekeeper to the police. That was her choice. Wealth is the parasite.

[@Vanessa-bb2qo]

You're right. Especially when you say that she acted that way because at that time she was in a superior position. Maybe she wanted to use the opportuny to blame the housekeeper for the mess her own family made around the house. Yet she had no bad conscience snitching her, although her family led the housekeeper to that misery by sneakily stealing their job.

[@ComedyGlor]

The Electric Oracle you’re right. Really this could’ve all been avoided if things didn’t escalate. They both knew each other’s secrets, so they could’ve just agreed to keep it and lie in peace. Instead they started fighting each other...

[@fillosof66689]

The wealth wasn't the issue. The intense self-loathing that had been consuming the older Kims was. The way they lorded their power over the old houskeeper and her husband, the pride they took in sticking to their new jobs - it all stemmed from the deep shame and despair they had been for years feeling as a result of ending up with nothing after their best, most productive years were behind them. They hated the reflection of themselves those two.

[@TheElectricOracle]

That’s actually a really good point, I didn’t see it that way. I was so horrified at Chong-Sook’s treatment of the old housekeeper that it probably coloured my judgement slightly!

[@maxmuellerm]

Realistically I don't see her reporting anything to the police. It would unravel way too many things and was all just acting imo. The actual decision that led to escalation was made by the old housekeeper. The whole aftermath felt like a fight about who's nearer at the bottom of society that both lost at the end.

[@ezhar1059]

When Jessica was chilling at the bath tub and felt like she belong there. But then the reality hit her the moment when shes chilling and smoking in the dirty toilet. 😭😭😭😭

[@purple_siren_8624]

also when after living in kim's house in luxury for few days when they escape at night and jessica was running on the streets in the rain. that hits too...

[@harpreetparmar2994]

She died cause of her obsession and somewhat deserve it

[@GeneTonics]

@@harpreetparmar2994 Yo what? Deserved to die because of her obsession with what, exactly? Dude she was about to go give food to the couple downstairs even though she didn't have to. She totally didn't deserve it wtf

[@harpreetparmar2994]

GeneTonics they killed the old lady and left the husband to die for what Exactly... the whole family was sycophants but only she got the hard punishment

[@mjd2723]

@@harpreetparmar2994 yeah bro the whole family deserves to be punished

[@aaaamazingxx9211]

The rich daughter was seen carrying the wounded poor guy who is her bf. That shows young minds are pure and are not corrupted yet...some rich people are not born mean and proud, they evolve too

[@humairak743]

I found this part of the movie flawed. How come the father could successfully hid himself for a long time the basement when the girl found ki-woo right in front of it with the door wide open? Shouldn’t the authorities have asked her where she found the guy?

[@sllaychu2014]

@@humairak743 I read somewhere in the comments that the housekeeper's husband dragged the book shelf in front of the door

[@joyboy6752]

Humaira Khalid You’ve forgotten that the killer closed the bookshelf, literally straight after he attacks the son

[@lavy1513]

She didnt know his real identity, that he was poor. If she did I doubt she would have carried him out.

[@tlocto]

@@humairak743 the son told her he was going down 'even deeper' after referring to the party, and he was attacked in the basement in front of the bookshelf, meaning anyone walking down the steps to the wine storage would see him.

[@leodahvee]

This is the first movie that really left an impact on me. I learned that: 1. I should treat people with respect 2. I've got a lot of good things going for me 3. Strive to understand people 4. Help those who are in need 5. Anyone can be a villain.

[@jamiedegrey7046]

You mean... Treat people with... "rEsPeKkKt"?

[@korean6706]

Do not show discomfort when the person next to you have terrible body odour, you may get stabbed.

[@arnav7458]

True

[@-khushlush]

don't trust anyone easily

[@carcinogenicthalidomide3057]

@@korean6706 noted

[@michaelnguyen8121]

The ending of Parasite is literally what the title suggested; a parasite that is embedded within a host will kill the host eventually. This movie can be interpreted in many different ways (literally, figuratively, metaphorically) and it still will make sense. It is a masterpiece of a masterpiece.

[@kekw5153]

True. So the host is the house/Mr Park itself, then the parasite is that basement dude, he's been living inside his house and eventually kill and injured Mr Park like what a parasite would do to a human or an animal if they're inside them. Truly a fitting title

[@michaelnguyen8121]

@@kekw5153 Half right, the one that kill Mr Park (the rich dad) is Mr Kim (the poor dad), Mr Kim is the parasite; his family is living and feeding off the rich family the whole time.

[@anonymousdog22]

The Queen I just realized! It’s like parasites in parasites. The basement dude is a parasite to the Kim’s as he’s revealed to be there after they are getting settled in the house and the kims are a parasite to the parks as they are living in their house and feeding off of them. So, basement dude kills Jessica as he’s their parasite and them Ki-taek kills mr park as he’s THEIR parasite.🤯

[@DanJackielz]

@heuheuheu hyuk hyuk Agree. I read a lot of comments here and there from my home country about this film. For much of my surprise, many of them were negative, stuff like: "I've seen a hundred movie like this", "boring", "didn't deserve a single Oscar", etc.. (grown man, not just kids) I feel ashamed when I read them and can't help but feel furious. Not for how they feel about it but what they are missing out on, and not just in this one film... That's how much Media classes are worth I guess. Times likes this I realize why Hollywood keeps making trashy action movies.

[@eeshakhanniazi]

Are you on letterboxd?

[@Cyian]

the second i saw the old housekeeper, i felt the bad vibes

[@shreyashideb8185]

Sameeee

[@purple_siren_8624]

yup don't let anyone like that in your house.

[@jinjoon853]

Can somebody explain to me why the old housemaid showed up so bruised in the face that one night?? I don't get that

[@eshaandani6917]

@@jinjoon853 it was because she still had the allergic reaction to the peaches

[@lunatricxx7675]

@@jinjoon853 She also tried climbing a fence to cut off a CCTV/Street Camera's wires off so she won't be detected once she tries to enter the house, she must have had a hard time doing so so she had a few bruises.

[@rainekosaka]

the rich family never goes down the basement stairs and doesn’t even know of their existence. they are unaware of the poverty present in their very home. the mom was at the top of the stairs and as the maid tried to come up to reclaim her place at the top, the mom kicks her down again so that she could maintain her place, even at the expense of the other woman’s life.

[@toddskivolocki6972]

So basically Mrs Kim kills the old maid since she hit her head after falling?

[@tonyg.482]

@@toddskivolocki6972 yup

[@fleurism-g8o]

that also pretty much shows how moving to a rich family's big house as a housekeeper changed the mom. she almost forgot that she was also in poverty until couple weeks ago, instead she starts becoming like park family by kicking her at the basement, and even threatening her by calling the police at the very beginning. that was her ego making her do all these, we also see this change of the family in the scene where the house is all theirs and what they do is watch tv in the bath, read under the sun on the grass, eat and drink "mineral water" instead of normal. as if they been living in that house.

[@amanprasad7325]

hence parasiteS ♥️

[@farhiyaa192]

I felt like that mrs Kim was the mirror image of the past mom, the present mom didn’t want to have interference or feel like she was poor again, that was her way of claiming domination over mrs Kim and being poor status

[@senguptasthiti]

Another metaphor or symbolism : When the poor son said to rich daughter that - do you think he fits in, and says he would go down. She says that - down there in the lawn? He says- lower. What he meant was his life and poverty would degrade further- and it did happen, he lost his sister and father trapped in the basement. He went down-hole further.

[@XxdextriousxX]

He was also hinting that he was gonna pay visit to the other parasites in the basement

[@Spielmeister]

Yeah I also thought the same thing. These comments and analysis are so mind-blowing and cool.

[@chaniechan4873]

Y'all! just realized why Da Song liked Jessica when in fact all of his previous teachers can't handle him. Dahye mentioned that Da Song was just pretending to be 'smart' 'artistic' or any at that matter and he liked Jessica for the same reason that Jessica was also pretending to be 'smart' and 'artistic'. So at some point they understand each other very well. Birds with the same feather flock together indeed.

[@cateIeya]

Idk if this correlates but when Jessica gets hit for the first time, Da Song was also right behind her and also gets hit with the same impact, causing both of them to fall down and both families rushing to save them.

[@mcleanephatha]

@@cateIeya wasn't she stabbed tho? And didn't the boy faint because he saw the same "ghost"?

[@tmtmtm520]

JB omg rightt

[@UchihaAmanda]

YES OMG

[@muskanverma9301]

Also he asked the daughter to write pretend twice

[@val-zod1284]

The scene at 1:33 when she sits on the toilet and smokes a cigarette whilst it spills sewage was one of the greatest film scenes of the decade imo Edit: ....and Parasite Just won Best Picture and it absolutely deserves it. Definitely one of the best films I've seen the past couple years

[@carlangasa4622]

i loved that scene!

[@mahwish]

Why tho?🤔

[@jorgeeduardodussanvillanue46]

@@mahwish I saw it as a representation of how you can find solace in the smallest things even with everything crashing down upon you. It is an example of the mindset of "the world is shitting (in this case, literally) on me right now, but at least I've got X (a cigarrette to smoke, a beer to drink, etc)."

[@user-lr1rt3sz9u]

It was pretty hard for me to watch that scene because of a trauma I have related to the sewage and floodings, but still I felt like I needed to watch it because of just how amusing that whole scene was.

[@val-zod1284]

Jorge Dussán couldn’t have explained it any better myself

[@kohiri6613]

That scene where the rich 'friend' comes to their home to give them the rock and was able to scream at the man who was peeing near the window but on the other hand kevin was not able to do the same, depicts the scene of how rich treat poor but poor thinks twice to do the same. But later when they all get a job and good pay they throw water on the drunk man.

[@remita3569]

Quite the false interpretation since halfway through the movie, Kevin did what u just said he didn’t do and threw water at the drunk guy while shouting. Min was the ‘cooler, richer ‘ friend that their family sees

[@doublestufftruffle]

@@remita3569 They literally mentioned that in their comment

[@madeofcake6972]

@@doublestufftruffle the comment was edited, so they could have added it after the guy pointed it out.

[@AMATCHALATTE]

@@madeofcake6972 ^

[@kohiri6613]

@@madeofcake6972 I edited because I made grammatical mistake. Also we all can interpret what we want

[@maryamsarwar6732]

This comment section is actual gold. i too had a mind boggling discovery. that scene when the exterminator comes and the father tells the family to leave the windows open for 'free extermination' for bugs/parasites but has absolutely no difficulty in working through that gas while the others cough.....later he becomes the parasite in the park's house. symbolising he's the parasite that they now can not get rid of, for he is immune to the posion. he can not be gotten rid of. partly because the rich don't even know he is there

[@ClaraRodriguez16]

underrated comment

[@MartinHernandez-ln8vv]

He's also compared to a cockroach by his wife, remember?

[@bennyjelly70]

I am too late but i just noticed something.. The pizza delivery girl said that one out 4 boxes are defective..there were 4 members in the family and one got rejected/removed in the end

[@mackenzieee2751]

holy shit

[@sanjivanie8221]

i will never be done with this movie now

[@of2165]

OMG I DIDNT EVEN REALIZE

[@Whynotntn]

Why are you only getting 90likes lolol thank you so much

[@sevdaliza3819]

i don't get it...

[@iam_yashh]

Epic movie, the tone of the movie changed totally once the maid came back..

[@enzoguerrero2005]

For me the tone changed when they were getting drunk at the parks house.

[@ejerperalta]

I guess, it's called an inciting incident. She curiously opened the door for the former maid since it's being asked for. And she could just shrug it off, or ignore it; But that's how the world turns. Good lesson that I've learned in creative writing class.

[@cappucappu9441]

The tone changed when the doorbell rang, just like in the trailer.

[@lesihei6869]

I had anxiety throughout that entire scene of them in the living room. Definitely did not expect what would happen next. I thought the old maid would be knock out after falling and they would cover it up or something. I don't know, but it was a turning point indeed.

[@zzsmile1]

I thought the old maid had come back to kill them; she looked unhinged & ominous in the pouring rain.

[@komalzia6566]

Why isn't anyone talking about the mother's gesture of kindness where during the party she tries to send food in the basement thinking they'd be hungry.

[@handsomeheart2000]

She is a nice lady but a victim of poverty, she quoted that if she was rich , she too would have been nicer. She even did the household chores well and fed the Parks family well...shows her sensitivity.

[@kimpaugh4495]

Its confusing though, because she kicked the former housekeeper down the stairs, then wanted to send food down to them.

[@kimpaugh4495]

@Weird Drew I will have to watch it again. I'm sure I may have missed a few things.

[@kimpaugh4495]

@Weird Drew No, not at at all. ;-) We're all good.

[@Fematika]

Notice too that she gets interrupted by the rich family coming down and talking with them. I think this represents that any act of solidarity between the working class is stifled by them wanting to impress the rich and succeed in life, not wanting to give up their own position to help the others worse off.

[@spawbiv6377]

This movie doesn’t have a villain nor a hero, they’re all bad and nice in their own ways which is why I love this movie

[@trebletate]

So nice, it kicked us down the stairs 😂

[@aluuymskn7194]

Villian & Heros IN this Movie Are Humans itself , that is problems are from us and we are only sol. of it

[@johnrivers3813]

Just people.... Living in a society

[@shahh.5124]

Imagine living in a situation where the toilet sits higher than you

[@myittaraye4584]

Shah Habibi I dont have to imagine

[@movedaccount9958]

And where dirty vomit comes out from it during rainstorm

[@gregoriosanjuan6679]

stop imagining. there are people actually living in that kind of situation. you just need to go out and help them if this film had hit you really hard.

[@darkyagami3503]

@@gregoriosanjuan6679 shut 👌

[@nethmielime]

I think the shot was intentional. Their living standards was even below toilets.

[@riannecabanier8209]

Brilliant analysis and some comments are mindblowing! There's one thing that I've noticed : when Jessica/Ki-Jung is stabbed at the end, her death is messy. It's bloody, she says that she's hurting several times, and it takes a while before she exhales her last breath. Even then, the richest class doesn't care about her death ; nobody, except her family, cares about her. Everyone is focused on fleeing or on Da-Song having a new seizure. But when the Parks' father is stabbed, his death is "clean", almost peaceful. It happens almost instantaneously, there's no blood and he falls slowly as if he's falling asleep. Of course, it triggers much more reactions in the onlookers. This moment just... spoke to me. I remembered Kim's father, Ki-Taek, saying that money is like an iron creasing out the edges of life, making it easier and more beautiful. Thus, Park's death is easy, quick, smooth, while Jessica struggles in her very last moments. I thought of media, turning a blind eye to atrocities happening in the lower classes, but documenting (which actually happens in the movie) things happening in the upper classes, smoothing out the edges, making it more manageable for the public, manipulating the way we perceive things. I'm probably looking too much into it, but who knows? Thank you for reading 💙

[@riannecabanier8209]

@@g.jo.9129 Thank you 💙

[@Alisonn2]

Rianne Cabanier that’s a nice point wow

[@Ainokea2]

Rianne Cabanier one of the coolest analyses

[@liaarakal2130]

period

[@riannecabanier8209]

@@Alisonn2 aaah, thank you ;w;

[@marselakadiu7347]

I just realized that the sisters were different from their families Ki-jung was perfect fitted in a rich family and Da-hye fell in love with a poor person and unlike her family she couldn’t smell “the smell “

[@yabssrashibiru6553]

Kevin (the poor family's son) also said in the drinking scene thar Ki-jung looked perfect while sitting in the tub, like she was meant to be.

[@Nietzschian_Nihilist]

@@yabssrashibiru6553 perfect 🔥

[@amanprasad7325]

just love you for this point ♥️

[@meyakookiyara669]

Yeah and in the scene after they ran out of their house in the heavy rain Kevin told to ki jung what will da hye do in this situation .........pretty much related..

[@lachimolalauwu3500]

Can someone please tell me how can I watch this movie ??

[@marushkajoshi1805]

After reading all these comments i realized indeed this movie is oscar winning movie. Hats off to the director and his team. Im so amazed by the comment section damnnn this movie is so deep

[@dolove8490]

DaHye was fitted to be in a poor family. She didn’t mind the smell and when she found his boyfriend on the ground she carried him to the entrance (and possibly took him to the hospital) even if he weighted more than her, even if it was a burden, she lifted him up. Jessica was fit to be in a rich family. She faked like DaSung being smart and artsy, and was the only one who could control and understand him.

[@theresa4843]

kijung and jessica are the same person. the rich daughter's name is dahye

[@GirlDo3]

Also the way Jessica was so at ease in the rich people's bath watching Tv and all

[@-zerenity-2322]

I didnt get the impression that Jessica was "fit" for the rich family more so than that to her own family. But sure she did connect more to the rich family compared to the other kim members. What I don't understand is that, how is it that when she told the Park mother about the painting made by Park's son; how did she know that something had happened to him in first grade??

[@elrojo321]

@@-zerenity-2322 She fit in the way that she may appear to be something in the same way rich people do.

[@akloskikoblansk2698]

@@-zerenity-2322 "Jessica" later tells her brother that she just googled Art Psychology, which probably means that she found out about common traits Schizophrenics have when painting (Da-Sung).

[@kintarooe2736]

Fun fact: that painting in the house is actually that creepy guy from underground

[@HabileoNasro]

Holy...

[@kintarooe2736]

@@farhanainjan746 the one that kid drawn

[@ekdrmssama]

Yeah, the bottom corner of the painting Jessica mentions that it is the kid's boxed in trauma. It's actually the kid drawing the basement guy.

[@nielanthonylajot3854]

WTFFF????

[@kpotato6080]

WOAH

[@viktoriapavic9846]

The rock sinking into the pond in the "end goal" scene where he buys the house proves it's just a fantasy since the rock floated when their house flooded

[@do.re.mi.2713]

aaah omg

[@elisha_hana3108]

I know i am late but i am still curious about,where is the rest of park's family at the end? Where did they go? How are they doing?

[@arunavtiwary9380]

@@elisha_hana3108 must be doing good if not great, got so much money, property inherited from park, plus no one would live in a house where a tragedy happened.

[@elisha_hana3108]

@@arunavtiwary9380 i dont think they re happy because they've lost the love one,the father and might be in a trauma. They maybe moved to another country. Well tq for the respond.

[@mattpk1609]

God damn I like this comment. Thank you!

[@johnlaw9482]

Another amazing detail is that the sex scene is not there so that the movie has a sex scene. As many people watched the movie with their friends and families, the sex scene was to make us feel the discomfort and awkwardness just like the Kim's family hiding under the table and how we wanted that situation/scene to end as soon as possible.

[@wordsmith-2232]

they all were asleep

[@gregg6077]

@@wordsmith-2232 no they weren't

[@alejandraa.715]

I did feel uncomfortable watching that scene.

[@zin761]

Also they were foreplaying the whole driver and the druggie prostitute having sex which also showed their demeaning attitude towards the driver

[@franzi6371]

omg its so true

[@ReezASam]

U know a movie is brilliant when u have to search for this kind of youtube videos to feed on your inner curiosity after watching it Thanks for the likes😘

[@seth5119]

So true Thats me right now I just saw it last night.

[@campkira]

not my kind of movie... i been avoiding it.... but youtube won't left me alone... it is korean cinema...if they go on bad end route yeah... it just going to bad end route.. you can tell from the title...

[@snafunafud2819]

I search movie explanation cuz im dumb as fck :(

[@trogman43988]

So true! Just finished the movie and it blew my mind.

[@MelissaAndersonTheFutureLegend]

Just like The Shining...

[@drakenkrieger1591]

Might be reading too much into this, but : The WiFi connectivity issue shown in the beginning of the film comes full circle in the end. In the beginning, the family couldn't get their messages across i.e no communication. In the end, the father has no means of knowing whether his message will be received by his son, and the son has no means to deliver his message to his father.

[@Angelo-wg2kb]

Very interesting

[@dagnelfernare5130]

This is the part that made me almost cry at the end. When I heard the father's note, and when the son wrote his letter about buying the house some day, and him coming up the stairs. I was hoping that scene was real but it was a daydream of course. Also cool to me how the original got stuck in the basement and Mr. Kim switched places at the end, both hiding out from their crimes, while hoping that 1 person who knows they're down there will come for them

[@ensa8783]

thats genius

[@its_elkku135]

I also liked that while the Kims had to climb up as high as possible to get Wi-Fi, the Park house's secret room underground still had network. Edit: better wording

[@RBNrocks]

The SON can go in some day

[@TheGeekArchive]

'No art teacher lasts longer than a month' A foreshadowing to Jessica's inevitable death

[@marianavm2355]

dang

[@shinaa9131]

omg

[@driftingthroughthisplace5898]

that’s not really “foreshadowing” in the tradition sense since it’s subliminal, but I know what you mean

[@pasta3405]

Stfuuu omg

[@eve_______]

Dark magics teachers in Hogwarts have the same problem

[@_86kutt]

Parks daughter even carried kevin to safety. The only one who seen past the "smell". 💯

[@carcinogenicthalidomide3057]

She genuinely liked the guy.

[@kelybear]

i think it’s just ignorant bliss. children don’t really understand class. the parks son and daughter never viewed the tutors as ‘workers’ but more as friends or companions. that’s probably why the parks daughter never noticed the smell on kevin.

[@acidspittingllama1865]

@@kelybear No because the other child felt the smell and I think was the first to point it out actually.

[@seratyuioprg]

@@acidspittingllama1865 yep. But I'd agree that the dasong didn't view them as workers below him but just how a kid would view adults

[@iamnotyou1]

So just because a rich guy doesnt like their smell, it gives him right to k+ll him? It makes him the poor parasite even worse.

[@soscarlet]

to me mr park replacing the husbands place in the basement shows that poverty/the wealth gap is a never ending cycle that is impossible to break no matter how hard you work

[@andthestorybegins5597]

Yeah especially the ending scene whe the camera goes back down to the son after his daydream of someday buying the house. The film also greatly represents why most of the crimes came from the lower class.

[@mariosuena]

What a loser mentality

[@alaplaya5]

this would have make more sense if... I don’t know... the father wouldn't have killed his rich chef?!

[@alaplaya5]

@blah blah man a lot of my family members work(ed) for rich people either in their households or as chauffeurs... That's why I thought I could feel with the Kims but this family was just crazy. They could have climbed the ladder without having to push others down but they didn't even thought about it. you can afford to be nice when you're rich, is just such a stupid thing to say. The Parks liked them also because of them acting nice and that's one of the reason why my parents ans aunts had... you could even say friendships with their chefs, because they could trust and be nice to each other.

[@alaplaya5]

@blah blah man yeah you're right. A lot of people don't know how to handle money and one reason is because of school. We aren't teach about finances and taxes. The other reason is because a lot of poor/middle class people don't really care to inform themselves about it. That's also one truth that everyone wants to ignore. Now with the internet, people can learn almost anything in the world, still we speak about non-rich people as they were still living in caves. That's why hindi, chinese, koreans, japanese, nigerians etc. are kicking our asses, because they have a culture were they are request to study. so this whole premise of excusing poor people's evil and deceitful behavior to climb up the ladder, because rich=evil sounds very stupid to me. I'm still trying to understand the movie but the more I watch the less I feel like I can agree with anything on it.

[@lovemyanimals7433]

Parasite stressed me the hell out, but loved every second of this film. It's up there with Old Boy and other Korean thrillers

[@rafidikarizaldi2599]

Agreed.

[@alexisf22]

exactly and I saw the devil

[@ariyaddna]

Agreed!

[@carolineiscoolest]

old boy sucked, i hated that movie. parasite was SO good though.

[@FreddyD177]

You can call it a thriller but it's more of a horror movie. The Wailing or the wailer is one of the best horror movies I have ever seen the ending was incredible! And also features the most realistic adaptation of what the real life devil would look like at least in my imagination.

[@nab7812]

I legit thought the plot was just going to be the son falling in love with the girl he was tutoring when his friend said that he wanted to ask her out in university. It got way past that.

[@bloop4527]

You have watched way too many romcoms lol

[@Whynotntn]

And literally, all he had to do was tutor the girl. But nope. Lol

[@AJ-lg2sg]

I actually thought this movie was about the system intoxicating the unwealthy by fumigation and then them spreading a virus to the rich family by acting like they were in the middle class and not infected And then I saw the movie and this was like wowww

[@_mel_9953]

Same, and I thought that the friend would end up ratting out the main characters to the rich family lmao

[@qing9018]

@@g.jo.9129 I thought it was odd when the mom was interviewing "Kevin" she said that grades doesn't matter to them. I now realize that Kevin was hired to be someone that gives Da Hye attention so they can focus on their son. I don't remember a single time Mr Park interacted with his daughter, it's all about the son.

[@Iladimah]

WOW I just noticed a small detail - notice how the ghost/man was allowed to freely walk from the basement to the garden of the house without a single person noticing him - even when he gets to the garden, with the knife in his hand, the rich are all facing the opposite way, turning a blind eye to the poor ghost/man that now stands amongst them - even the rich girl (Park's daughter) is seen walking downstairs and looking facing the garden door seconds after the ghost/man enters the garden and yet even then she doesnt see him Its not only until it is too late, when he stabs Jessica, do the rich people notice, it is only until their convenience is turned into inconvenience, the shattering of their safe hierachal bubble, do they finally take notice and acknowledge the poor ghost/man. Wow

[@neha-co2cz]

holy crap that's a good observation

[@madisonl.607]

i love your observation so much, you drew a really good observation

[@Iladimah]

@@madisonl.607 thank you 😊

[@anihearts9864]

THIS IS AMAZING

[@anihearts9864]

this is so true though... people only notice when something extreme happens.

[@sanjana1611]

The reason Jessica's character is most liked in the film is because it is basically everyone in the society with unique and tremendous potential to succeed on their own but gives up and joins the flow of the majority due to the poor and negative circumstances of the surroundings.

[@saeedvazirian]

Lmao, to me she was probably the worst and most despicable character.

[@Karin_Allen]

Director Bong has said that the reason *she* was the one who had to die was that she came closest to actually achieving the dreams her family hoped for. She stood in the middle ground, both figuratively and literally (in the party scene) - but the class system refuses to allow her to go any further up the "stairs." Despite all her skills and her cleverness, she would never be allowed to rise The system wouldn't allow it.

[@dighad3824]

Yea that's why they bleep-ed her.

[@karmax5615]

I think she is one of the best characters once was ki -woo was hired obviously he’s wanna gonna bring ki -jeong with him that’s when they started to push their luck

[@ajsuflena156]

Hermann Schloffer von Graz she was super dismissive of others pain and struggle

[@dharanisoundarapandian6587]

Stop commenting guys, I can't like every single one of them

[@fakes51]

dharani soundarapandian so far the greatest comment

[@amanpal7599]

Then dont read go

[@AwesomeAlert1]

hahaha relatable af

[@EM-GroupESakibIbnSani]

Give me like please

[@_mel_9953]

Ikr? It’s like everyone in the comments is a film or English major haha

[@kiandita]

In this movie, everyone is the villain at some point.

[@mihawk2774]

except the kid?

[@LoveYoutube12418]

@@mihawk2774 kid is also bad because he was boyscout member i think he can understand the message but he ignored the message. I am sorry i am not good at English

[@mihawk2774]

@@LoveKZbin12418 I see

[@maedelprincessmaneje7573]

The kid is just pretending

[@suhasjamdar7024]

That’s the point

[@gnm8062]

It's ironic how Kevin during the scene in their flooded home and shelter, he hugged the stone so much. His father even asked him about it and he says that there's something the stone seems to cling to him so dearly and it's the same stone that almost put him into death. That was the most striking scene for me. For me it represents the reality that sometimes that things that we cling on so dearly might also be the things that will harm us eventually. He holds on to that "false hope" or the stone that it also was used against him.

[@QWER-wv5kn]

영화속에서 돌은 희망을 상징하기도 하지만, 돌은 돈이다. 잃지 않고 꼭 껴안고 있어야 한다. 그래야 죽지않고 목숨을 유지할수 있다. 마지막에 자연에 돌을 놓은 이유는 다른사람이 그 돌(돈)으로 또 누군가를 죽이는걸 원하지 않기 때문에. 원래 자연에 있는 돌은 자연으로 돌려 보내는것이다.

[@QWER-wv5kn]

In the movie, a stone symbolizes hope, but a stone symbolizes money. You have to hold tight without losing it. That way, you can survive without dying. The reason why I put a stone in nature at the end is because I don't want anyone else to kill someone with that stone. Originally, stone(money) in nature are sent back to nature.

[@Pomodorosan]

Also the rock is fake since it floats

[@sanjitthakuri3562]

The picture the boy draw is of the man who lives in the basement.

[@hejiranyc]

OMG... and he draws basically the same picture over and over again. Brilliant! That is yet another Easter egg in this masterpiece of a movie.

[@AngeloJuanico]

Wait is it actual?

[@slickdaddy6257]

Yeah I found it when I was seeing the movie

[@carlahaub5577]

Oh yeah! Especially bc ki-woo is like "oh this is a chimpanzee" and then when we meet the man, he is eating the banana (all weird like)

[@Mikachu2407]

@@carlahaub5577 you just blew my mind

[@Maria95Silver]

I loved that little shot of the fly resting on Mr Park’s hand after being killed. I thought it could mean that no matter how rich he or his family were, they would smell as badly as the poor once they were all dead.

[@moforoger69]

guess I'll die It wasn’t on Mr. Park, it was on Geun-sae’s hand, I think at that moment Mr. Park was actually disgusted with his smell this time instead of Mr. Kim. Notice how he is disgusted as soon as he moves his body over to get the keys. Unfortunately Mr. Kim realizes it immediately after the shot of the flies on Geun-sae. Brilliant movie!!

[@fufustick730]

I think it was a stink bug. Remember at the start when the dad said ‘these damn stink bugs’ or something like that? I think it is supposed to represent that nothing has changed for them.

[@chaostheory4405]

At the end of the game, the king and pawn go back into the same box.

[@HuneyDLite]

To me, that fly signified that even in death, Mr Parks is still host to a parasite. And the cycle of life continues.

[@campkira]

in another word... they all fucked...

[@thatbitch5231]

I just realized something: So I’ve seen a comment talking about how there was a parallel between the beginning of the movie and the ending since when ki-woo’s friend brings the "rock" that’s supposed to bring good luck to the family the mother says "u could’ve brought food instead" and at the end ki-woo brought the rock to the basement instead of food which was what Jessica was supposed to bring. But what if this was all a metaphor in order to criticize the Korean society. I think Bong Joon Ho made this parallel in order to say "stop giving us superstitions, prayers and wishing us good luck and give us solutions or money, food" The stone is pretty important throughout the movie to ki-woo he keeps it when their basement is flooded and when all the victims are sleeping after the flooding he still holds it tight and doesn’t let go of it. But at the end this stone which was supposed to bring them good luck and blessings only ended up killing them (metaphorically and literally) cause this stone is the main factor of all the tragedies that happened at the birthday party (ki-woo drops it, the man in the basement takes it, hits ki-woo in the head with it and goes upstairs and kills Jessica etc...) None of this would have happened if ki-woo left the stone alone. So I think the main message is superstitions ironically ends up killing the poor since poor people are actually the most superstitious which does nothing for them. Ps: it’s very long and I’m so sorry if it’s confusing English isn’t my first language.

[@pooldead8606]

this is an amazing observation

[@HaNa_Salam]

It's a well put observation.. Your english seems fine :)

[@tasneemkhanom6539]

Your english is great wyss

[@ZEROnoobTOLERANCE]

I’ve read the comments for like an hour and this is the best observation I’ve seen.

[@tasneemkhanom6539]

ZEROnoobTOLERANCE i did that lmaoo i just sat there and read all the comments

[@jugnusitaare7402]

I'm late but did anyone notice how in the Kim's family in the beginning, they have to search for wifi even in their normal room but in the Park's family, they even got signal/wifi in the lowest part of their house, the basement.

[@Mimi-py8mf]

true that!

[@mochairl]

this is literally the top comment 💀

[@maliahashmi]

True!!!

[@capricorn8426]

And how they stole their neighbor's wifi, then that just sums up the whole entire movie.

[@jasperlin8734]

The scene where the man in the basement manually turns on the lights for Mr. Park represents the fact that the ones who live in poverty as the lower class are the ones who supply the needs and comfort for those of the more fortunate upper class. *shook*

[@veageraldo9984]

And they're completely blind towards it!

[@doe6441]

and because mr. park thinks it's just motion sensor reinforces this idea of the upper class mindset that the lower class' purpose is to work for them. the upper class have become used to it, expect it (the motion sensor), and ignore the lower class' own feelings/problems (when mrs. park thinks the light is just flickering/bugging when it's really the basement guy trying to send a message). this movie can be analyzed forever and i think i wouldn't mind doing just that, it's so wonderfully overwhelming

[@shihtzupuppy823]

Casper.The.Friendly that’s actually so true tho。。。And i talk from experience

[@shihtzupuppy823]

👀 👄

[@campkira]

that design don't made sense...

[@AnnisaNew]

Fun fact: the rich guy explain that the old maid eat two meals. Because the meal will be given to the guys in the basemant

[@jamescagang5756]

Nice catch.

[@husnasamadi2971]

omg!

[@edwardhernandez6668]

Oh snap!! :D

[@ash-to5ov]

no, not really... The maid literally said in the movie that she bought the food with her own salary for her husband buttt idk y'all maybe she just loves food

[@youdontknowwhoiam4349]

u4iugh she could have been lying to make herself seem more noble or something.

[@thepersianxgirlxx]

Towards the end when the daughter is carrying her boyfriend while the parents don't give a damn about the rest refers to the fact that a new generation doesn't need to be as the previous one. There is still hope to be better and not be like your parents.

[@derekh3908]

I love this comment. It gives hope to the otherwise negative theme of the “evil rich”.

[@2F098]

Or the girl actually had romantic feelings for the boy whereas the parents had no care in the world. Not everything has to be over-analyzed.

[@valawee]

@@2F098 This is a film that is meant to be analyzed, this is a video that's 15 minutes long that's analyzing it. This movie is brimming with meaning.

[@jiga6832]

The kid did asked her do I fit in this settings and you can clearly tell she didn't care , she liked him as he was That just to show us we can be better then our previous generation

[@edgarcross4721]

The small spot of hope in the darkness world of social classes

[@benjaminlu9886]

"A rich pet lives a better life than a poor human" At the scene where the families were fighting to get a hold of the phone with the video, the 3 dogs from the Park family came in from the background. While they were fighting the dogs went about their way and ate up the scraps on the floor. Even the dogs of the rich profit from the strife of the less fortunate and were oblivious to the struggles that were taking place

[@aabriahchapman8546]

@Default Name someone sounds but hurt but I hope you eventually realize how hard it is overcome a state of helplessness as a poor person there is not a lot of opportunities for them to achieve anything so they have to settle for things that can only allow them to survive

[@pillbox4370]

@@aabriahchapman8546 Nothing to do with dogs bud, you good?

[@aabriahchapman8546]

@@pillbox4370 bud are you cause i was obviously responding to the reply genius

[@mochairl]

i think some of yall are reading way too deep into it. theyre just dogs 😕

[@Usernamee4687]

@@mochairl Not just dogs 🙄 Dog = God backwards and the best of friends for humans even when humans are cruel.. dogs are way loyal and loving than human trash. Dogs are also useful and the best social animals/companions.

[@adribaby444]

wow all of these comments are mind blowing. I have an observation to add, i noticed that the little boy (dasong) saw the lights flickering, and he knew it was morse code and unlocked the meaning but still chose to ignore it. i think it’s an analogy how people in general not just the rich, especially the young people choose to ignore important messages just because it’s out their comfort zone. Dasong didn’t tell his parents about maybe because it was raining and he didn’t want to get wet meaning young people don’t want to get their hands dirty because it’s not convenient. I’m just saying at this point lol it’s just a thought.

[@juliyar1670]

I’ve literally been thinking about this. They mentioned that the young boy knew Morse code and then we clearly see him reading it and then refusing to do anything about it. It’s just crazy to imagine that being in a higher class would cause you to dismiss a persons life. Unless he thought it was the ghost talking to him and was afraid to say anything 🤷🏼‍♀️

[@AnkitGupta-ll6mz]

How would the kid or his family help? They even didn't know that basement exists. So how they would know it was help call.

[@gracielamarisoll]

Ankit Gupta That’s the point they didn’t know they existed but they still got praised. The son knew someone was ‘needing help’ but chose to ignore it bc he was scared or out of his comfort zone and didn’t want to get dirty. Just the way people from higher social classes choose to dismiss problems/ atrocities that happen in the lower class bc it doesn’t affect them or bc they don’t want to get their hands dirty which goes back to the Mr.Park and the Mom being disgusted by the Kims smell

[@pearline4684]

I disagree with this point, I do think there is a metaphor behind this but I do not think that is a criticism towards the younger generation because given the themes of the movie that just would not make sense. Rather I see this more of a critique towards the older generation not believing the younger one and feeling superior. The boy told the parents that he had seen what he believed to be a ghost, instead of investigating even after their son also clearly suffered they just brushed it off as childish imagination. Moreover Da-Song even if he is just a child is also born and raised in a rich family and has adapted their beliefs and views of the world

[@miracle8925]

I was waiting for someone to mention this 😌👏🏾

[@linian1987]

the rock was floating on water indicating that the rock was actually a fake that's why he survived 2 blows of it

[@naseemsultana5822]

Ohh yeah..correct!! But how two blows? Only once I guess?

[@hejiranyc]

You could also see how the rock just kind of bounced off of his head for that second blow; like it was styrofoam.

[@asianmanswhore295]

that doesn’t make sense, he was struggling to pick up the obviously heavy rock when he was on his way out to confront the man who kept peeing by their window.

[@Noposwowskis]

That trauma that boy got was deadly, when he survived i was like "wtf" everything was going so well lol

[@SwastikSwarupDas]

@@hejiranyc It looked like oneo f those plaster of paris rocks which are hollow from inside, Enough to make one bleed, but cant crack the skull

[@Arthur-ri1ol]

He also starts the letter to his dad with "I have a plan", revealing that his dad is left for dead in the basement

[@morpher728]

I mean... the dad could just... leave...

[@Manu-pp6wh]

Morpher wait omg thats true though the police is searching for him so uhh

[@aabriahchapman8546]

@@morpher728 there's no way for the dad to leave cause there is no better option for him in the basement he has access to food and shelter out in the real world he will have nothing but a jail cell waiting for him

[@onlygirlintheworld9367]

@@aabriahchapman8546 Technically the basement it’s his own prison

[@aabriahchapman8546]

@@onlygirlintheworld9367 exactly thats what makes the situation so unsettling but in actual prison, \ he will be there for the rest of his life while in the basement he can have some hope

[@iamatn3317]

The most depressing part is the final moment when the son tells his father that he will one day buy the house he lives under so he can simply “walk upstairs” when in reality he just got out on probation, he has no money, no good job, and he’s not in school. It’s a real downer because we all know it’s never gonna happen and he may surely die in that bunker....alone.

[@freddytheplatypus826]

outside of the father having a heart attack or becoming crippled so he can't move, I would think the father (with how cunning they all were beforehand) would undergo a new alias and alter his appearance to re emerge into society. I don't know how hard it would be to use a forged identity for a bit to make some money and live somewhere? I know its depressing to think he just dies in the hole waiting to be reunited with his wife and son but that doesn't seem consistent with the resourceful people they were before for survival.

[@JungleLibrary]

@@freddytheplatypus826 the dad could wait out the statute of limitations, and on his way out steal some jewelry to give him a kickstart on his new life. He wouldn't even need a new identity, although I'd want one in his situation.

[@hello7377]

@@freddytheplatypus826 he could, but honestly i doubt he ever will. his children were the ones that planned and schemed everything, he just went along with whatever they told him to do. he relied on his kids and false hope for all that, so i don’t think he’d be able to make it out of that basement, especially after he said that plans never work out and in their case, they didn’t. it’s depressing but i think it fits with the theme of story and is more realistic.

[@PraveenSh1]

Why didn't he escape from the house even when the new owners are busy .

[@iamatn3317]

@@PraveenSh1 he killed someone he can’t just walk out without being taken away from his family.