Director: Bong Joon Ho
Writers: Bong Joon Ho
Actors: Kang-ho
Song, Sun-kyun Lee, Yeo-jeong Jo, Woo-sik Choi, So-dam Park, Hye-jin Jang
Director/writer
Bong Joon Ho received Oscars for Best Picture, Best Screenplay and Best Writer
on this one.
All the
actors who portrayed the Kim family members were entirely credible. I felt like I was given special
3-D glasses to witness a real slice of life.
Parents
Ki-taek and Chung-sook are utter failures as parents to clever son Ki-woo and
quick-on-her feet daughter Ki-jung. But
when it comes to taking advantage of opportunities, the parents have taught
their children well.
With charm
and friendly ease, the Kim family con their way into becoming welcome fixtures
in the wealthy Park family home. To
watch how brilliantly this is achieved is a lesson in sheer strategy.
Despite how much
we like them, because of their ruthless exploitation of the Park family, we begin
to see the Kims as villains with no ethical values. Then suddenly they become the victims
themselves. The scene which creates
this twist in momentum is not only hilarious, but we suddenly find ourselves
sympathetic to the villainous Kims again.
What first
appears as a sitcom becomes a horror story and finally morphs into a complete
tragedy. Bong Joon Ho is not only a
master storyteller, he’s a brilliant manipulator of audience response and
engagement. He takes us on an experience
which generates our sympathy, charms us, captivates us, entertains us and then
ultimately horrifies us.
Most films
focus on a specific genre, but this film covers them all. At first I thought this movie was another
disease-disaster story. On a
metaphorical level, it is, but on a human-condition level, it’s an all-encompassing
journey destined to be considered a
classic of its time.
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