Have You Seen: Parasite (2019)

In our series "Have You Seen?" we discuss a movie that some of us know well and others have just now seen for the first time. Our conversation focuses on the experience of someone watching the movie for the first time today and their reaction.This week we revisit Parasite, directed by Bong Joon Ho and starring Song Kang-ho, Choi Woo-shik and Cho Yeo-joeng, about a poor family who infiltrate the life of a wealthy family.We talk about whether the New York Times was right to name the movie the best movie of the 21st century, the movie's treatment of class and inequality and how it has a refreshing take that is different to how Western movies treat similar subject matter and how the discourse of the movie does injustice to the actual movie itself, how expensive it is to be poor, the subtle symbolism of monsoons and stir fries, why good movies should change the rules half way through, and much more.