Not that I give a crap about Hollywood or awards, but this was a foreign movie, with subtitles, and it won best picture.
Must be good.
The Kim family, father Ki-taek, mother Chung-sook, daughter Ki-jeong, and son Ki-woo, lives in a small semi-basement apartment. They have low-paying temporary jobs and struggle to make ends meet. One day while eating dinner, the family is visited by Min-hyuk, a close friend of Ki-Woo’s. Min-hyuk, who is preparing to study abroad, gifts the family a scholar’s rock, which is meant to promise wealth to whoever possesses it. After dinner, Ki-woo and Min-hyuk go out for a drink. During their outing, Min-hyuk suggests to Ki-woo that he should take over his job as a tutor to the wealthy Park family’s daughter, Da-hye. Min-hyuk tells Ki-Woo that he does not trust any of his other friends from university to tutor her while he’s away. Ki-woo agrees to interview for the tutoring job, but Min-hyuk tells him that Da-hye’s mother will only hire someone in university, so he must pose as a university student.
The family of four soon begin to infiltrate the home of the Parks by posing as unrelated but sophisticated and skilled workers to the family. Ki-woo tutors and begins a romance with Da-hye. Ki-jeong poses as a renowned art therapist, who agrees to counsel the Parks’ restless young son, Da-song. Ki-jeong hides her underwear in the back seat of Mr Park’s car, forcing Mr Park to fire the driver when he deduces that he was having sex in the car. Ki-taek, a former valet, is hired as his new driver. Finally, Chung-sook takes over as the Parks’ housekeeper after the other Kims exploit the long-time housekeeper’s severe peach allergy and convince Mrs. Park that she has tuberculosis. When the Parks leave home to go on a camping trip for Da-song’s birthday, the Kim family revel in the luxuries of the mansion.
While the Parks are out, Moon-gwang, the former housekeeper, comes back to the mansion. She reveals a hidden entrance to a secret bunker underneath the house, where her husband, Geun-sae, has been living in the basement bunker for over four years to hide from loan sharks. Chaos ensues as Moon-gwang finds out the truth about the Kim family, and she threatens to tell the Parks if they do not, in turn, keep her secret.
Due to inclement weather, the Parks return home early from their camping trip, leaving the Kim family to clean up any traces of living in their home, while a physical brawl breaks out between Moon-gwang, Geun-sae, and the Kims. A mortally injured Moon-gwang and Geun-sae are dragged down the basement and locked up. After Chung-sook serves her dinner, Mrs. Park reveals to her that Da-song had a traumatic experience years ago when he witnessed a ‘ghost’ – Geun-sae – emerging from the basement, and that the family has celebrated Da-song’s birthday outside their house since. As the remaining Kims hide under a coffee table, Ki-taek overhears Mr. Park complaining to his wife about Ki-taek’s smell.
When the Kims return home they find it completely flooded due to the raging storm and end up having to sleep in a gymnasium with other people affected by the flood. The next day, Mrs. Park decides to host a lavish party for Da-song’s birthday. She invites Ki-jeong and Ki-woo, while employees, Ki-taek and Chung-sook are required to attend. Ki-woo heads down to the bunker with the scholar’s rock, planning to offer it as an apology gift. He finds Moon-gwang dead, but is attacked by Geun-sae, who escapes the basement and bludgeons him with the rock. Seeking to avenge Moon-gwang’s death, he takes a kitchen knife and stabs Ki-jeong in the chest in front of the horrified guests. Chaos ensues as Da-song suffers a seizure upon seeing Geun-sae and a struggle breaks out between Geun-sae and Chung-sook until she impales him with a skewer. In the chaos, Ki-taek, upset at Mr. Park’s repeated insults and his reaction to Geun-sae’s smell, takes a knife and fatally stabs Mr. Park before fleeing the scene.
Weeks later, Ki-woo has survived the attack and wakes up from his coma. He and Chung-sook are put on probation for fraud, while Ki-jeong has died from her injury and Ki-taek, who is wanted for Mr. Park’s murder, has gone missing. Ki-woo continues to scope out the Parks’ home, which has now been sold to a German family, and sees a message in Morse code from the flickering lights. It is from Ki-taek, who is now living in the bunker. Ki-woo writes a letter to his father, vowing that he will one day earn enough money to purchase the house, free his father, and reunite as a family together.
No, no. Not like that. We not required. No, no. You terr ryes. Olange man bad, veddy bad.
I could-not care-less about all the holly-wood films.
I would love to be able to read minds in that theater, especially when “Parasite” kept winning. Aside from experiencing the empty vacuum of space, I’ll bet those with a modicum of thought were definitely not thinking of inclusion at the moment. To them, it felt like a Korean version of Pearl Harbor.
HUH?…..Ho Lee Phuk? Wot Wen Down? Miso Confusiused….
It isn’t a hollywood film- it isn’t even an indie.
It’s a south korean movie and I’m glad that it won.
It’s quite good. It’s the sort of movie you need to watch without knowing anything about it ahead of time, that makes it even more enjoyable imo.
Maybe I could follow the plot better if people were named Tom, Dick, Harry, Alfonso, and Ricky.
Thanks for ruining the end of a movie I’ll never see outside of a Korean prison.
Hurray Jane Fonda!
You mean it beat out Batman 19, Star Wars 23, or Rocky 57?
Have you ever ground up and snorted a quaalude? It’s one of the most painful things I’ve ever done. I did it twice just to be sure. This movie sounds worse, I won’t even do it once.
I’m so happy Joaquin Phoenix won! Totally deserved it.
But as soon as he started talking his woke bullshit at the beginning of his acceptance speech I quickly changed the channel. Arthur Fleck was probably laughing his ass of at the liberal diarrhea of the mouth flowing from Jaiquin’s mouth.
Imagine acting your whole life, you finally win an Oscar, and you mention John Bolton in your moment in the Sun?!?! Brad (Arm)Pitt. You wasted the perfect moment just to impress Alyssa Milano. You stupid brainless turd.
@JerryMandarin Agreed! Oh geez Brad! Why’d ya have to go mention John Bolton? Seriously? OUATIH was a good movie, a guy movie. Again, why tick off half your fan base?
John Mellencamp is doing ads for Bloomberg! Really? Bloomberg, farming, Midwest, yeah I see the connection. I used to be a big fan. Now, I’m like Meg Ryan and have broken up with him forever.
Hollyweird’s into globalist “woke” bullcrap. Whoopee, foreign film wins Best Picture. Might be proof American made films are becoming inferior. The American film industry has been grooming low info audiences to accept whatever the Academy considers entertainment. America First has no meaning in Hollyweird.
The best Picture should go somewhere else, anywhere else!
My pick for best picture was second grade. They actually got me to smile.
Were the women wearing clothing from Juche Couture?
r/scriptedasiangifs
The Director’s cut.
They make WASPS look like gnats with their love/hate relationship with caste and a premium on social status.
Ask yourself this;
What if a red-headed kid named Ed Smith from Dubuque, Iowa made this exact same film, same dialogue, character development etc (granted you’d have to convert it to Americans instead of Koreans), same quality, drama, skill. Do you think anyone even would release it for him, much less give him an Oscar? Of course not. We live in a state of full-blown, 100% identity politics.
I hope the movie is better. I got to the second paragraph and I heard my brain yawn in hyphens.
I’m going out for a coffee IV.
Rumor has it that the HOLLYWOOd sign in Hollywood Hills is due to be changed to HORRYWOOD…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CP9P8YKBSlE
Wee, gee. Thanks a heck of a lot. You could’a put “spoiler alert” in the title. I was really looking forward to taking my wife to the theater and spending who knows how much so we could sit there in utter boredom and confusion for a couple hours.
PLEASE, next time think of us regular readers…
I think the academy was trying to compensate for 1) Firing Kevin Hart, and 2) It’s lack of “diversity” in nominations. So they snubbed everything else, including the amazing 1917, in order to appear woke by giving all the Oscars to Parasite.
GOOD thing HOLLYWEIRD isn’t beholdin’ to the Chinese, HUH?! 🙄
Hi Larry,
Happy to see you.
From the title the “Academy” just figured it was about the Demonrat Party: Obola, Jarrett, Gore, Pelosi, Waters, Schitt, Schumer, Nadler, and the rest of the Gang – so they voted it “mo bettah” – believe me – they never watched it.
izlamo delenda est …