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Parasite (2019)
Notes Written - 04/23/2023
Format - Blu-Ray
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Poor trash, rich cunts, a vapid society, and the usual South
Korean depresive nihilism combine to make for an interesting...soap
opera.
The audience follows a family of impoverished degenerates as they
attempt to claw their way into the household service of an utterly
gullible rich couple. I say "follows" but the pace is so slow that it
is more like walking behind an elderly woman with a walker laden with
groceries. If you didn't love her, you'd leave her to the wolves and
move on with life.
More than halfway through your slog, as you contemplate smothering
the old biddy with her own pillow for everyone's benefit, a car
screeches around the corner straight for her and all hell breaks
loose. Granny has a more robust story than you ever imagined.
When the dust settles and you see that she is the one left
standing, your eyebrows arch. Later that night, you put her out of
everyone's misery as planned because she still holds you up.
Maybe watch it. Probably don't. It's too long, overrated, and
maybe the NorKs should launch some missiles - leaving the entire
peninsula smoldering in mutual destruction.
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