An exceptional dark tragicomedy about social inequality in modern Korea, director Bong Joon-ho's
Parasite is a brilliant depiction of class warfare — a real estate horror-cum-satire that pits two households at the ends of the socioeconomic spectrum though the lens of a genre-hopping prism that reflects and refracts an impoverished family's desperate aspirations to reach the upper rungs of the societal ladder by hook or crook, only to find themselves trapped in an architectural purgatory of sorts. Tackling themes of deprivation and greed, and privilege and excess,
Parasite is devilish fun, before it zigs and zags to uncharted territories — its each tonal shift more shocking and grisly — and devolves into a caustic, entertaining commentary on the haves and the have-nots. It's a sheer rollercoaster ride, building to a conclusion that at once devastating and yet satisfying.
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