I've spent 2020 so far sitting in the dark watching movies -- the most wonderful time of the year! Here I wanted to write about Parasite two ways -- like double cooked string beans. *** You likely know that the 2020 Oscar best picture winner from South Korea hijacks the upstairs-downstairs genre for the purposes of comedy, drama and terror. The title withholds ethical judgment -- the wealthy Park family, which falters without the support of underclass laborers, is as parasitic as the poor Kim family, sucking the exhaust fumes of affluence for a contact high. As a raiser of class consciousness and a portrait of malicious envy, it’s a more sumptuous version of Booker Prize winner
Two Nouns #20 -- "Rest of World"
Two Nouns #20 -- "Rest of World"
Two Nouns #20 -- "Rest of World"
I've spent 2020 so far sitting in the dark watching movies -- the most wonderful time of the year! Here I wanted to write about Parasite two ways -- like double cooked string beans. *** You likely know that the 2020 Oscar best picture winner from South Korea hijacks the upstairs-downstairs genre for the purposes of comedy, drama and terror. The title withholds ethical judgment -- the wealthy Park family, which falters without the support of underclass laborers, is as parasitic as the poor Kim family, sucking the exhaust fumes of affluence for a contact high. As a raiser of class consciousness and a portrait of malicious envy, it’s a more sumptuous version of Booker Prize winner