Parasite (2019) is still making me think.

Director/Writer: Bong Joon Ho (Snowpiercer)

Starring: Kang-ho Song (Snowpiercer), Sun-kyun Lee (A Hard Snowpiercer), Yeo-jeong Jo (Obsessed with Snowpiercer)

If you're going to trick your way into a rich household, do it with style and beware about what secrets they may be hiding.

What would you do if you were given the chance of a lifetime? Would you use it to help your family, or would you stay in your lane? Stay down and quiet and weak? When the Kim family gets the chance, they take it and run right into a wall.

      Our story starts with the Kim family slowly weaseling themselves into the employ of the Park family. The Kims are poor, living in a small apartment where rain water drains in with the pee from a local drunk. Then their son gets employed as a tutor to the Park family despite not quite being qualified. A cascade of dubious machinations gets the Kims into the Park's household to uncover some maddening secrets.

     You are not expecting what happens in this movie. It's wild yet contained, showing how the poor and the rich coexist. While the rich plan a party due to how pretty the summer rain is, the poor slowly drown in the runoff. The rich and the poor are framed by their windows, the small underground versus the large picturesque plates of glass. Extending on the idea of the high and low of the movie, more exists in the basement of the Parks than meets the eye.

      Watching this movie is an experience, an event. Enjoying this movie is simple. Understanding the ins and outs, well, that might take a long damn time. Director and writer Bong Joon-ho just gets better throughout his career.

Here are my notes, beware spoilers

Friend bring rock and job

All starts with a guy and a rock. He brings the rock, a good luck token to bring wealth. He also brings the tutoring job, which brings actual money.

Lying for a job

Of course he lied for the job. 

Sister lies painting of son

Here I started wondering what kind of family I was rooting for. I liked them, but they were clearly doing shady things.

Sister panties off

At this point, what the holy hell? The rich people seemed nice, just oblivious much in the way of Gatsby.

Dad works hard on housekeeper, diagnose

This is a masterful work of framing someone. Just the time and patience it takes is amazing.

Housekeeper secret bunker husband

And here we have some crazy bullshit that comes out of nowhere. Sure, they get the housekeeper fired, but who knew that the housekeeper had a secret husband in teh basement?! Whoo, I loved this twist.

Toilette cigarette

There's a moment late in the film when the son sits in the old apartment, water everywhere, having a cigarette. It's just a small bit of sadness, of poignancy. 

Son down, dad down

Then there's that ending. It's just so sad and broken. A replacement of sorts, of the dad having to go into the basement and hide after the violence that ensues.