![]() Parasite is about the perennial topic of class and 21st-century servitude, and it is about the fundamental issue of inequality. Cunningly, he gets his elder sister in as an “art tutor” to the kid brother of this wealthy household, and it isn’t long before mum and dad have scammed jobs there also as chauffeur and housekeeper, all pretending to be not related, brilliantly playing on their rich employers’ smugness, fastidiousness and cocooned naivety. The teenage son flukes a plum job as an after-school tutor to a teenage girl who lives in a colossal modernist mansion. ![]() ![]() Bong Joon-ho’s upstairs-downstairs satirical masterpiece Parasite, the Palme D’Or and best picture Oscar-winner features a low-achieving family living cheek-by-jowl in a scuzzy, stinky basement flat.
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