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Parasite - Patreon Version (Patreon)

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2025-03-20 12:00:08
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No Sync Required Version: https://cinebingers.ca/wdLY4hc7K7 - For Patreon tier "Bingers on The Wall" or higher.

movie runtime: 02:11:48

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Parasite - Patreon Version

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Ste Rawlings

4 minutes in and really hoping you guys decide to watch this without subtitles

Kevin K.

This movie is absolutely insane and probs the best movie to win Best Picture at the Oscar’s in years.

Kevin K.
>>168355913

So you want them to watch it in a language they don’t understand? They don’t speak Korean so watching without English subtitles would be pointless lol

Tom Hess
>>168355913

Could be a reference to something George said in the intro about having subtitles but not showing them to the viewers. Otherwise it makes no sense. Why watch Parasite with no subs?

Kevin K.
>>168355913

Yeah that doesn’t make sense? Subtitles are essential for non Korean speakers

Martin Roca

Their kid didn't "just fainted". They explained that he has seizures and only has 15 minutes to get to the hospital or die.

cheese bagel
>>168365387

to be fair it absolutely looks like he just fainted, and the whole seizure thing was mentioned one time near the start of the movie, followed by a shit ton of crazy things happening. its reasonable for a first time viewer to forget.

Amelie W

Worth noting, Parasite isn't just any Oscar winner, it is the only non-English-language film EVER to win the award for Best Picture. If you care about the Oscar Academy's little club for Hollywood people's mutual adoration, which Bong Joon-Ho apparently doesn't.

Ste Rawlings
>>168355913

I was just making a silly joke about how it would be insane/funny for George to go out of his way at the start to explain that they watch with subtitles and then watch an entire movie without them. It clearly didn't land.

Maiki

One of those rare movies I saw in theaters with a friend when the hype hadn't started yet, both completely blind, no idea whatsoever what it's about, hadn't even seen a trailer or other promo...and we were blown away afterwards and had to tell everyone "go watch this movie, trust me". Masterpiece.

Carlos Hurtado

Love this movie. Its very metaphorical.

Alexrandom

The host and mother are GREAT. Like, incredible. but to me his masterpiece is memories of murder. Okja is pretty polarising but I love it too :) Please also watch some Park Chan wook ;)

REDR58

This will be a first time watch for me, just waiting for the disc to show up later today…

cheese bagel
>>168355913

i swear theres quite a lot of people in this community that have difficulties understanding jokes, whether its a comment or a poll. perhaps reactions attracts a lot of ppl with bad social skills or is on the spectrum

Opti_Frog

Despite the actions of the Kim family, i have no problem sympathising with them. Mostly because they are not trying to rob the Parks, fraudulently take over the house or something major like that. They are simply hustling for blue-collar jobs. I notice new things every time i watch Parasite. This time i caught on to the small "role-play" the Park couple indulge in while the Kims are hiding under the table. "Isn't this like the car's back seat? [...] You still have those cheap panties? The ones Yoon's girlfriend left behind. If you wear those, I'll get really fucking hard." "Then buy me drugs." Before, her asking for drugs didn't really make sense to me, but now i realise they are acting out their fantasy of driver Yoon's "indiscretion", buying drugs to a girl in exchange for sex. Perhaps this was obvious and i'm just slow. I also for the first time connected the "15-minute treatment" with the Park's urgency in the chaotic birthday scene.

Opti_Frog
>>168355913

Hey cheese bagel, i see you've just joined. Welcome. Did you join just to antagonise people?

cheese bagel
>>168355913

classic no self awareness Opti_Frog, projecting and doing the very thing he accuses others of. literally no one talking to or about you, decide to jump in and start shit.

Jpsynergy
>>168386921

Yeah I'm with you on being able to sympathize with the Kim family. The scene of not being able to get a part time pizza gig , how talented the sister is but can't afford lessons. It's hard not to. Don't want to get into the whole poverty and crime thing but that's what being desperate does to people.

Odd Thomas

This is one of those awardy films I watched and enjoyed but have never thought about since. Bong Joon Ho's other films are better imo, particularly The Host (2006)

sarCC

YAY! Parasite! Hope the next foreign language film you do is RRR

jay

Unrelated, but I hope to see you guys react to “The Interview” one day

Hans Czajkowski Jørgensen

about Simone and words - Don't worry Simone There's always a way to learn about new things. Such as up goers: https://xkcd.com/1133/ (the words you are reading now are all part of the ten hundred most used words in this language). If this makes you mad, I want to say I am trying to be funny ;-)

Opti_Frog
>>168355913

Hilarious. Did you use a couple of other accounts to like your own comment?

Cinebinge
>>168355913

Alright folks please let's exercise restrain and practice de-escalating, there's no need to just provoke and aim for last word. Let's end it here now, consider this a warning to all involved.

Alexrandom
>>168355913

He didn't. Everyone should put themselves in the other person's shoes before assuming they mean bad. it would really brighten discussions. He wasn't trying to antagonize. He was clearly trying to voice his opinion (lacking a bit of subtlety, sure). Edit: added the reply before seeing the warning or I wouldn't have posted. Everyone have a nice day and be nice, please.

Divinerights

Choi Woo-shik estimated that it would take approximately 564 years for Ki-woo to earn enough money to purchase the house

cheese bagel
>>168355913

i aint the most pleasant person, its the one thing me and my ex can agree on and out of respect for S&G i apologize. but its wild that Frog find it easier to believe people paying for multiple accounts on a movie reaction channel then just the simple fact that there can be people who disagree with him.

Cinebinge
>>168386921

I'm (G) not so naïve as to think there arent any people out there who commit crime simply because they enjoy it, but I do believe majority of the time it starts out as necessity. it likely requires a lot of work to pull schemes off successfully AND get away with it, and that they arent incapable, they just really need to catch a break and be given a real chance/opportunity. So yeah, full sympathy and honestly with the exception of the daughter, the whole family IS doing the work they're hired for. They simply had to lie to get in the door, which is frankly something possibly every one has done at job interviews.

Cinebinge
>>168367866

for me (G), its not so much that I care what the 'big club' that none of us are in thinks, but rather what a win like this, or Michelle Yeoh's win a few years back signifies for SEA as a whole in the west when it comes to the arts. Her win brought tears to my eyes, that maybe we can finally stop being laundromat, quickie mart, or restaurant owners with funny accents, or the math kid, the dragon lady, the exotic object of lust and so on.

Brandon

This movie is just excellent. One of the rare foreign movies that my small-ish town theatre actually carried for a bit once it started getting nominated for Golden Globes and Oscars. I was lucky enough to see it a few weeks before all the lockdowns started. I hope you guys check out some more Bong Joon Ho in the future. My personal favourite is 'Memories of Murder' but any of the ones you haven't seen before would be a great choice.

djKENTO

Bong Joon Ho reminds me os much of Danny Boyle. Every film they attempt is so different from the last and they’re all over the place genre-wise. They’re always taking risk, and they don’t always hit, but when they hit, it’s a CLASSIC.

Dee

About the Kim families intelligence- they're very street smart. They know how to run a game on people that are easy to manipulate. During the conversation at the beginning with the friend that gets the son the tutoring job, its mentioned he took the entrance exams four times and still didn't get in. So, yeah they seem smart because they are, but not in book smarts way.

cheese bagel
>>168420869

i dont think its as simple as book smart. imagine yourself as that level of poverty, where you have to help your family make pizza boxes, where you live in a place that can flood or have power randomly cut off, or fumigated by the city and so on. he probably has to get odd jobs throughout his life to help his family make ends meet. his friend on the other hand, can focus on just school, have time and money for tutors. and lets forget, this is Asia, school is gonna be a lot harder than North America. like dedicated 100% of your time or fail kind of thing

Philipp Roensch

An amazing movie, the whole montage of getting the housekeeper lady out, with musical crescendo, perfection. Certainly plenty of crimes and lies perpetrated by the poor family, but I still sympathize with them more. My main argument for this is, they do not take any luck for granted, they do the work, they hustle, and once they have a bit of money or freedom to spend a night, they enjoy it, celebrate and seem genuinely grateful. Meanwhile, from Mr. Park especially, not much grace or gratefulness for his life is seen. He does not even know every room of his own house and has only mean comments about lower class people. The wife as well, naive to other's lives maybe, but also Ram-Don is made in 8 minutes? A grand birthday party can happen any day? Racks of bottles and still buying wine? Maybe that is the 8th rewatch talking, but I think the contrast in this movie is brilliantly in depth, not just rich vs poor, but also attitudes clash here. I would say more than a strict preferred "winner" of the situation, this movie advocates for a less parasitic society in either direction, many suffer under the current class divide. Also, what I noticed this time around, every time someone tries to use the stone as a weapon, things start to escalate. There is probably something really metaphorical that could be said about the stone's role in this. Anyway, great movie, great reaction. Simone certainly had some shock from the twists this movie takes :D

REDR58

What a great movie. I really enjoyed this way more than Snowpiercer which I found and absolute slog to get through. While watching this, it brought to mind the real stories of people squatting in other people’s houses: https://youtu.be/SlwajEJrMP0?si=Pbu3vxwato8UoPZy Anyway, great reaction!

Paul Peavler
>>168425272

Well, the stone was said to represent the acquisition of wealth. I think it’s fair to say that the metaphor of the stone is that the drive for wealth leads only to disaster and death for all.

Paul Peavler
>>168386921

I don’t understand why you guys are saying that the daughter wasn’t really doing work. Yes she was BSing about the art therapy thing, but she did that to get the job. Just like the son BSed about his degree to get his job, how the dad BSed his history to get the driver job, and the mom BSed a whole company to get her job. The daughter was acting as an art tutor, and the movie had already established that she was a talented artist.

Cinebinge
>>168386921

hi Paul, my line of thinking is this. Moms house keeping/cooking and dads driving is something that can be tasted and experienced on the spot by the wealthy family, if moms cooking is bad, its immediately noticeable, same goes for dads driving. The sons English tutoring is also more immediately noticeable by the mother or daughter if his English is actually no where nearly as good. The daughter however, relies on a made up "psychotherapy" that she has no education or training in, while yes art is subjective, she played heavily into the whole psychology aspect which isnt something that is immediately noticeable in terms of results. She can and did simply do cold reading on the mom and adjusted her answer to suit whatever the mom said, so her work in this sense is significantly less. Shes not an actual child psychologist, the son is gaining nothing or very little from her, while the dad IS being driven from and to work, and the family IS getting fed by the moms cooking every day and their home cleaned every day.

Paul Peavler

I think perspective has a lot to do with how you interpret this movie. My perspective is that of someone that is very left wing, so I obviously empathize more with the Kim family, and my perspective is that the Parks are the more parasitic of the family. The Kim family does all the work, cooking, cleaning, driving, teaching the kids, etc, and they live in destitution while the Parks live in wealth despite not really doing much. The movie makes it very obvious about the mother, even going so far as to call her simple, but one subtle point in the movie is when the dad goes to visit Mr Park at his office, and Mr Park is being shown a bunch of VR gear, and he asks if it can connect to a phone, and the employee tells him that a phone doesn’t have the computation power for what they’re doing. That implies that he doesn’t even really understand what his company does, like most executives. The whole thing is a metaphor for capitalism where the wealth is hoarded by the few away from the labor that makes everything work. That said, I also recognize that the bigger point of the movie is about how capitalism affects us all and it isn’t so black and white (and yes, there is a black and white version of the movie and I assume that was an intentional decision to really drive that point). The wealthy are divided from the reality of the struggles of the working class to the point that they become subjugators without even realizing it or intending to. And then the working class fight amongst each other for scraps from the wealthy just to survive. To me, there are two aspects of the movie that haunt me. The first is how the man in the basement, while being completely destitute and forced to live underground for years, living on scraps that his wife can scrounge from the Parks, still treats Mr Park almost as a deity, and the Kims as competition. Instead of the two working class families banding together to fight for a fairer system or, at the very least, figuring out a way to take advantage of the Parks to make the whole thing work for all of them, they instead go to war with each other hoping to be the ones left standing with enough favor from the Parks to continue being their servants. In the end, the war escalates to such an extent that the whole system collapses in on itself and all the families are destroyed. The second thing that haunts me is the ending, where Ki Woo, after experiencing all of this, dreams not of a life where the whole system is changed and his dad can walk out of the house freely, but instead of one day becoming wealthy enough to essentially become the Parks and buy the house, a dream that is highly unlikely to ever come true considering he is a man living in poverty with a brain injury and a criminal record. But this dream that this working class man has that he will one day be the wealthy is what ultimately will keep the entire status quo unchanged.

Amelie W
>>168367866

Absolutely agree. It is a big win, it was just funny remembering how Bong ripped into the Oscars when he won. Ice cold.

Ste Rawlings

The rock was floating, it's hollow. So metaphorical.

Ste Rawlings

I was surprised and pretty disappointed George went with the poor people are the Parasites school of thought.

Ste Rawlings
>>168439211

Haha dude! I was just coming here to delete this. You indicated during the film that the poor people were but in the post film discussion you said both could be argued as being so. Sorry mate.

Joe D. MacGuffinstuff

Speaking of fried rice, there's this place by my job that has Hawaiian fried rice, holy ... , so good, delicious shrimp, barbecue beef and chicken (and pineapple) mixed in, and the portions are nuts, fed me for three meals. Really nice passion fruit drink too.

Thirty Year Old Mulberry Field

Dinner: Made a lentil curry w/ white rice Tonight’s watchalong: “Parasite” Ya boi was having a good night ;) Seen this one quite a few times but that speech Mr. Kim gave about having no plans after their home was flooded really hit hard this time. Such a defeatist sentiment after watching his character be quite optimistic for most of the movie earlier. Wasn’t too crazy about “Mickey 17” but I’ll enjoy the opportunity for a rewatch if it gets on the schedule later.

Thirty Year Old Mulberry Field
>>168447310

Also any chance you can collab w/ Maplenuts again for one of the other movies in Park Chan Wook’s Vengeance trilogy? It’d be quite a gas to have y’all together again for more macabre Korean cinema.

Christopher Carson

Once I saw this pop up on my notifications today, I knew I had something to look forward to after work. After seeing this was up for Best Picture, I went to see it in theaters. This was the last movie I saw in theaters before Covid shut everything down. And after watching this movie in February of 2020 (being the only one in the theater), I chain-smoked 3 cigs in the parking lot before telling everyone I knew to watch it. Loved the reaction from y'all. Would have loved seeing Georges' first reaction. I spent weeks going over the poor/rich comparisons/differences in this movie.

Christopher Carson
>>168375333

I separately commented here about this, but I went to the theater solo. The only thing I knew was that it was nominated.

Joe D. MacGuffinstuff
>>168440735

It's a Hawaiian barbeque restaurant but it's in California. I got lucky, this job has a bunch of good restaurants etc. within a five minute drive.

Logan Kerlee
>>168440735

Ooh, I'm jealous! I live up in the Pacific Northwest - I've got loads of variety/options here. :) I biiiig like yummy Hawaiian barbecue! :D

Crytek

I've been meaning to watch this one for a while so thank you for the excuse

Gary Fixler

George: "They must mark it up for the super-rich, because if it's not that expensive, they might not buy it." Reminds me of a joke in a Steve Martin book, where he mentioned finding some really great sunglasses at a high-end shop, but they were on sale, so he waited and got them full price elsewhere.

Allen Pass

Thought the movie was mid. The premise was entertaining and the acting was decent, but I wasn't able to connect or relate with the characters. I think it could have been the lack of substance and character building of both the wealthy and poor families. It felt like a surface level glance into their lives and while that approach furthers the story, it also felt superficial and hollow at times. That said, I look forward to more of your reactions!

Michael LaPorte
>>168677057

It kind of had a commedia dell'arte feel to me where the characters were more sketches of ideas than full-blooded people like we're used to seeing in modern writing.

jay

george! some more trivia you either skipped over or didn't read from the spoilers that i think you'll enjoy: - The Kim family's house, alleyway and entire neighborhood were all built on a massive set that doubled as a water tank, so that the whole thing could be flooded. - The house was designed to feature lines that clearly divide the Parks and Kims. - Stairs and vertical structures are a motif that runs through the entire film, which highlights the social divide between Parks and Kims. In fact, the director Bong Joon-ho called the project a "staircase movie" while filming it - Bong Joon-ho was never given an Americanized name like some of his fellow Koreans and like Mr. Park in the film who goes by Nathan but he mentions that he learned his surname, Bong, has a meaning in the US. His first distributor in the US actually sat him down and explained what a bong is "and they actually gave me a real bong as a gift after the promotion of The Host." He adds that it caused him some trouble at the airport. - Architects in Asia utilize Feng shui in their designs. The first few minutes of the film are devoted to showing how the Kim family lives in a T junction, a road formation that can lead to extreme poverty or extreme wealth. - Actual lines are used throughout the film to know whether a character has "crossed the line". (example, with more in the comments: https://www.reddit.com/r/MovieDetails/comments/f2hbd2/in_parasite_2019_literal_lines_are_used/) - Kim Ki-taek talks about how the house was sold to foreigners. There are visual references to Switzerland, but in the American subtitles, he thinks they're German: "It turns out Germans eat more than just sausage and beer". In the German dubbing, he says they're Americans: they "don't have just burgers and Coke in the fridge". (this is maybe my favorite one lmao) - The scholar stone is meant to represent both the hope for upward social mobility, in a vein similar to the American Dream, and the burden of carrying such hopes, to the point that it literally bashes in Ki-woo's skull after it gives away his location, allowing the housekeeper's husband to attack him. Before the sequence at the party, the stone also floats while in the sewage water for Ki-woo to find, suggesting for that scene that it's fake and hollow and cannot be used to dream of a better life, foreshadowing that it will be Ki-woo's, and the family's, downfall. (so it waaas floating!) - A throwaway line early in the film regarding how the housekeeper eats so much, almost as if she's eating for two, is one of many sly nods to the narrative surprise in the film's second half with the man in the basement. Bong Joon-ho thanked Tony Rayns for being the first person to mention that to him over the entire press tour "from Cannes to Oscar." - The song playing in the background when the Kims get possession of the Parks' house is "In ginocchio da te" by Gianni Morandi. In the 1960s, Morandi was a star in Italian "musicarello" movies: it was usually a comedy genre, focused on the differences between poor and rich classes, just like Parasite is. P.S: please start reading the spoilers trivia!! so many times now you guys have brought things up either during the movie or in post that get answered or touched upon further in the spoilers!