:INFO The Architecture Is The Plot Bong Joon-ho pitched Parasite as a story about two families and gave his production designer one instruction that organises everything: the camera should always know how far above or below street level it is. The Kim family's semi basement has a window at pavement height, so the world arrives as feet and tyres and the occasional drunk. The Park family's house, built from scratch as a set on an empty lot, is reached by climbing. Every important turn in the plot is a movement up or down a staircase, and the film asks you to keep count. Bong called it a comedy without clowns and a tragedy without villains, and he meant it literally. Nobody here does anything a person in their position would not plausibly do. The catastrophe is structural, and the one thing no amount of climbing can fix is the smell that follows you up. :JOURNEY Watching Parasite 3 Below 3 Opening 3 Ascending 4 Giddy 5 Falling 5 Exposed :STATS [icon:CLOCK] Runtime | 132 minutes [icon:STAR] Director | Bong Joon-ho [icon:CHART] Budget | $13.2 million [icon:TRENDING_UP] Box office | $263 million worldwide [icon:FIRE] Cinematography | Hong Kyung-pyo :QUOTE [quotetype:plain, subtitle:Bong Joon-ho ยท Golden Globes acceptance speech ยท January 2020] Once you overcome the one inch tall barrier of subtitles, you will be introduced to so many more amazing films. :NOTE.half Production designer Lee Ha-jun built both houses, and the Park garden was a full outdoor set with a water tank underneath it so the flood could be staged to the centimetre. :NOTE.half Jung Jae-il scores the first half as baroque chamber music, flattering the con exactly the way the con flatters itself, then abandons the family in the second. :TIMELINE ๐Ÿ ๐ŸŒง๏ธ๐Ÿ† 2019-05-21 | Cannes. Wins the Palme d'Or on a unanimous jury vote, a first for a Korean film. 2019-05-30 | Seoul. Opens in Korea and sells more than ten million tickets. 2019-10-11 | New York and Los Angeles. Three screens, the best per screen average of the year. 2020-01-05 | Beverly Hills. Best Foreign Language Film at the Golden Globes, and the one inch barrier speech that framed the rest of the campaign. 2020-02-09 | Los Angeles. Best Picture, Director, Original Screenplay and International Feature. The first film not in English to win Best Picture in ninety two years of the award. :LINK https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6751668/ Parasite on IMDb: full cast and crew