Parasite

Bong Joon-ho · 2019 CE · Film · Korean · Contemporary

The unemployed Kim family live in a Seoul semi-basement until the son talks his way into a tutoring job with the wealthy Parks on the strength of a forged diploma. One by one his relatives are recommended into the household, each of them supposedly a stranger to the last. Class war staged on a staircase.

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Lineage

• influenced by ↑ Psycho
  Alfred Hitchcock · 1960 CE · Film
• influenced by ↑ The Housemaid
  Kim Ki-young · 1960 CE · Film

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