Mixed feelings after watching it.
It was very funny,some scenes were really creative and yet i lean more towards not liking it or see it as a ok movie.
All the build up/set up in the first half was so methodical that it became repetitive/predictable imo.
2nd half was the most entertaining part, even if i didn't like the climax.
The theme of the movie is interesting and relatable,and yet i feel that the movie itself wasn't as good as the message.
Memories of Murder is free on YouTube (in the US at least, not sure about elsewhere), will try to watch it later today since everyone seems to put it as one of his best movies.
Memories of Murder is free on YouTube (in the US at least, not sure about elsewhere), will try to watch it later today since everyone seems to put it as one of his best movies.
Just saw it in the theaters. What a wonderful movie, and such a fantastic feeling of seeing a Korean on a big screen.
I do wonder about a thing regarding the ending though:
Why didn't the father just sneak out of the house at the first opportunity? Was it because of the shame and guilt that he felt for killing the house owner?
He knows he would be wanted. There's nowhere to go. When the son wakes up from his coma it shows the police are following him everywhere in hopes of discovering where the father is. The only people left who know about the basement are their family.
It's not supposed to be the same cake shop. Those types of castella cake shops were booming for a while in South Korea until the bubble burst and lots of people lost big on their investment. The movie is drawing a parallel about how both families fell victim to the same fickle economy and it foreshadows Kim's further social descent.
Here's a longer explanation about the cake shops from reddit:
Oh cool, I'll have to give this a try. Used to do this years ago, but then Netflix started cracking down on VPNs.
And yeah, blu-ray would be the best for a movie like MoM - something I'd like to watch multiple times over the years - but I'm gonna need a European release. Region locking is a fucking mess.
So I just watched it today. The plot change half way through and the dark turn the story went was a total mind fuck to me.
I love the cinematography in this movie....for some reason, it reminds me of a Studio Ghibli movie coming to life. I'm not sure why my mind keeps going back to Studio Ghibli characters.
Watched this tonight without knowing any thing about it (other than it's best picture win). I loved it. I did think the mother was a bit too gullible for believability.... I mean why would all these strangers just happen to know replacements? That would come off way to suspicious to me. Other than that I loved the acting, pitch pefect pace and wonderful screenplay and cinematography. When the old housekeeper showed up I knew shit was about to go sideways. The basement was a complete and utter shock though (as it should be as there was no hints to it's existence that I can recall). That whole act of the movie was incredible.
When the fired housekeeper ends up coming back shit hits the fan so fast. That scene with the family going full panic mode when they're told the camping trip is over was great!
Saw this last night, I thought was good, above average but if I saw this last year I don't think it would have been that high in my best films of the decade. The lighthouse came out around same time here and I think I preferred that and I watched one cut of the dead last week and as a horror comedy I preferred that too.
I think for me once the *spoiler* happens in the second act I found it a bit predictable and the climax a bit forced.
Just saw it, though it was brilliant, and reading insights about the language used (from the Reddit link above) was really interesting and expanded on the themes of the film!
(Sorry for not using their names D:)
She was a bit gullible, but the son suggesting his sister isn't something crazy because they're both academics and it's not way out there that he would have connections like that. The daughter suggested the father, and the rich mother seemed to like her, and was also informed that she was very prestigious, so her knowing a good driver wouldn't seem crazy. If the mother was recommended again to the rich mother I would be bit like wtf, but the mother being hired it was suggested to the rich father by the father, but the rich mother wasn't informed of this, so she had no clue it was coming from them again. So imo falling for two is believable, three would've been too many. Also I don't think the rich father would've been informed about the other suggestions either.
Just saw it, though it was brilliant, and reading insights about the language used (from the Reddit link above) was really interesting and expanded on the themes of the film!
(Sorry for not using their names D:)
She was a bit gullible, but the son suggesting his sister isn't something crazy because they're both academics and it's not way out there that he would have connections like that. The daughter suggested the father, and the rich mother seemed to like her, and was also informed that she was very prestigious, so her knowing a good driver wouldn't seem crazy. If the mother was recommended again to the rich mother I would be bit like wtf, but the mother being hired it was suggested to the rich father by the father, but the rich mother wasn't informed of this, so she had no clue it was coming from them again. So imo falling for two is believable, three would've been too many. Also I don't think the rich father would've been informed about the other suggestions either.
I also think some amount of time passes over the course of the first act, weeks to months. So there is a lot of time for the Kims to ingratiate themselves and gain trust.
Just watched it. Was amazing. I will admit it's hard for me to rewatch movies like this because the intensity and rising escalation always makes my stomach feel weird lol.
Probably the best scene in the whole movie. The moment the doorbell kept ringing was a great "Oh shit, something seriously wrong is about to go down" moment.
I thought it was great, but it didn't strike me as amazing. Something wrong with me? Someone wanna quote someone else or anything neat to read about the movie? Nothing negative, just like, damn.
Saw it tonight and enjoyed it, but it was awfully predictable, even down to the final scene. My wife and I paused the movie like 5 times during it to discuss what would happen next and we were right everytime.
That didn't ruin it for us or anything, but I just felt like it telegraphed everything.
1. The kid got a job and you knew the rest of the movie was going to be about the rest of the family also getting a job for them, thus the title "parasite".
2. You knew they were going to force out the housekeeper in some way. And their actions would come back to haunt them and somehow this plan was going to absolutely blow up
3. You knew when the housekeeper came back and was likely looking for a child or something in the basement... Didn't think it was her husband but you knew it was going to be some person.
4. You knew eventually the family in the basement was going to escape.
5. You knew pretty much this movie was going to end with everyone dying and getting screwed just like "Breaking Bad", family member tries to help family, it goes right for a little bit, then it sounds out of control and eventually everyone's going to end up dead.
6. When the dead is on the floor of the gym lamenting how it's all pointless that he was going to kill the rich family. You also knee he would wind up in the basement because the other husband told him it wasn't so bad.
7. The son having the happy ending you knew was fake because that's how Inception ending
Still a cool cool movie, I just wished it went MORE off the rails than it did
Saw it tonight and enjoyed it, but it was awfully predictable, even down to the final scene. My wife and I paused the movie like 5 times during it to discuss what would happen next and we were right everytime.
That didn't ruin it for us or anything, but I just felt like it telegraphed everything.
1. The kid got a job and you knew the rest of the movie was going to be about the rest of the family also getting a job for them, thus the title "parasite".
2. You knew they were going to force out the housekeeper in some way. And their actions would come back to haunt them and somehow this plan was going to absolutely blow up
3. You knew when the housekeeper came back and was likely looking for a child or something in the basement... Didn't think it was her husband but you knew it was going to be some person.
4. You knew eventually the family in the basement was going to escape.
5. You knew pretty much this movie was going to end with everyone dying and getting screwed just like "Breaking Bad", family member tries to help family, it goes right for a little bit, then it sounds out of control and eventually everyone's going to end up dead.
6. When the dead is on the floor of the gym lamenting how it's all pointless that he was going to kill the rich family. You also knee he would wind up in the basement because the other husband told him it wasn't so bad.
7. The son having the happy ending you knew was fake because that's how Inception ending
Still a cool cool movie, I just wished it went MORE off the rails than it did
Is frequently pausing and deliberating where you think a movie's heading how you typically enjoy films, or were you spontaneously pausing because you instantly felt you knew where it was headed and just had to get it off your chest?
If it's latter, fair enough. But if it's the former, I don't think it's entirely fair to criticize the movie for being predictable to a typical audience who wouldn't be frequently pausing to try and piece together the movie like a jigsaw puzzle.
Saw it tonight and enjoyed it, but it was awfully predictable, even down to the final scene. My wife and I paused the movie like 5 times during it to discuss what would happen next and we were right everytime.
That didn't ruin it for us or anything, but I just felt like it telegraphed everything.
1. The kid got a job and you knew the rest of the movie was going to be about the rest of the family also getting a job for them, thus the title "parasite".
2. You knew they were going to force out the housekeeper in some way. And their actions would come back to haunt them and somehow this plan was going to absolutely blow up
3. You knew when the housekeeper came back and was likely looking for a child or something in the basement... Didn't think it was her husband but you knew it was going to be some person.
4. You knew eventually the family in the basement was going to escape.
5. You knew pretty much this movie was going to end with everyone dying and getting screwed just like "Breaking Bad", family member tries to help family, it goes right for a little bit, then it sounds out of control and eventually everyone's going to end up dead.
6. When the dead is on the floor of the gym lamenting how it's all pointless that he was going to kill the rich family. You also knee he would wind up in the basement because the other husband told him it wasn't so bad.
7. The son having the happy ending you knew was fake because that's how Inception ending
Still a cool cool movie, I just wished it went MORE off the rails than it did
The father was free to leave and see his family at any time. I realize they were being watched, but that was temporary...so his plan to see him again by buying the house didn't...really...land.
The father was free to leave and see his family at any time. I realize they were being watched, but that was temporary...so his plan to see him again by buying the house didn't...really...land.
To me the dream was heavily about him seeing his father again (hence it ended with them hugging), implying that they never saw each other in that time. The emotional core of that sequence was them embracing.
The father was free to leave and see his family at any time. I realize they were being watched, but that was temporary...so his plan to see him again by buying the house didn't...really...land.
Saw it tonight and enjoyed it, but it was awfully predictable, even down to the final scene. My wife and I paused the movie like 5 times during it to discuss what would happen next and we were right everytime.
That didn't ruin it for us or anything, but I just felt like it telegraphed everything.
That sounds like a terrible way to watch movies. But most movies, including this one aren't trying to fool you. The sense of building dread relies on you knowing it's all going to fall apart
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