The friend is in love with the young girl and doesn’t want another tutor “slavering” over her. Kim Ki-woo’s life changes when a friend offers to recommend him as an English tutor for a girl he’s been working with as the friend has to go out of the country for a while. They fold pizza boxes for a delivery company to make some cash, steal wi-fi from the coffee shop nearby, and leave the windows open when the neighborhood is being fumigated to deal with their own infestation. Kim Ki-woo (Choi Woo-sik) and his family live on the edge of poverty. The film constantly threatens to come apart-to take one convoluted turn too many in ways that sink the project-but Bong holds it all together, and the result is breathtaking. Can the poor really just step into the world of the rich? The second half of “Parasite” is one of the most daring things I’ve seen in years narratively. And then Bong takes a hard right turn that asks us what we’re watching and sends us hurtling to bloodshed. It is a tonal juggling act that first feels like a satire-a comedy of manners that bounces a group of lovable con artists off a very wealthy family of awkward eccentrics. Bong has made several films about class (including " Snowpiercer" and " Okja"), but “Parasite” may be his most daring examination of the structural inequity that has come to define the world.
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