PARASITE (2019) Breakdown: Hidden Details, Things You Missed, Easter Eggs And Ending Explained 기생충

okay so parasite follows the kim's who end up infiltrating a wealthy elite family under the guise of being something they're not they're very much parasitic people and this is hinted at early on in the movie when we're first introduced to them living in a basement home we catch them in despair as they realize that the person whose wifi they'd been piggybacking off of had now put a password on it however they managed to pick up a signal in the bathroom which means they can use the free wi-fi from a coffee shop just down the road they are very much parasites of that wi-fi connection but the similarities to a lowly life form don't stop there we catch them folding pizza boxes and they're very much in a symbiotic relationship with a fast food company this company requires a lot of hands in order to do this but they don't have the money to take on full-time members of staff the kims don't do the job properly and a quarter of the boxes are unusable but the pizza company have no other option which the kim somewhat play upon not long after we watch workers spraying pesticide in the street and this is commonly used to kill bugs and parasites it blows into their basement home and this basement home of course foreshadows some of the reveals that we get in the movie after realizing their phones have been cut off chungsuk asks her husband can take what his plan is but we never really get an answer later on in the film kytek reveals that it's better not to have a plan as plans always go wrong and if you don't have one then nothing bad can happen this somewhat juxtaposes the end of the film in which his son kiwi says he's making a plan to go to university become successful and then buy the house so that his father can finally come out of the basement i've seen a lot of back and forth over the film namely whether this ending is something that happens and we'll discuss why it's pretty bad news for the family later on in the video now with the success of squid game i thought i'd revisit some korean classics that really show why the country is currently leading the way when it comes to tv shows and movies they just seem to be adept at creating outstanding original stories that are layered with social commentary and parasite is no different the oscar-winning film is filled with hidden details things you missed and a lot of clues that hint towards the eventual reveals that i want to break down in this video if you enjoy it we'd massively appreciate you showing some respect and also don't forget to subscribe as we do breakdowns like this each and every day now the movie is directed by bong joon ho who actually got the idea for the film because he worked as a tutor before he started making movies bong joon ho was actually recommended for this job by his girlfriend and he said that he used to imagine getting all his friends jobs within the household bong joon ho very much said that being staffed like this is the only way that people on the opposite side of the class system would ever actually meet and throughout the film there's lip service paid to how people shouldn't cross the line the idea of recommendations is fine within the household to a point but it asks the bigger question of what happens when this model is used in more high profile jobs the director stated that if a politician gets a family member or a friend or a job in a high position then they probably aren't qualified for it and we end up with a society where our leaders aren't able to do the jobs that they're appointed to it holds a lot of meaning to it and again asks the question should people cross the line now the conversations about crossing the line often come from the wealthy family's father nathan park who constantly remarks throughout the movie that he likes people who don't do it lines are actually used throughout the film and if you look at the window edges here you'll notice that it creates a line between the two characters that we see on screen on one side is the housekeeper whilst the other is the wealthy wife of nathan and the former crosses the line in order to clap and wake the other one up it's very subtle and moments like this are placed throughout the movie in which lines and camera movements are used to show when characters cross from one side to the other nathan actually says that he doesn't mind if the driver has sex in his car what he's angry about is him crossing the line into the back seat this is of course a metaphor for the social and class system within the country and it's very deeply layered now park's company is actually called another brick and this is a nod to the song another brick in the world by pink floyd this shows how he views his staff as all being just another brick in the wall walls are designed to not fall down if one brick is removed and therefore he just views people as expendable whenever he's talking about his staff we never see him saying anything positive and when discussing the first housekeeper he states that she always used to eat enough for two this hints towards the reveal at the midpoint of the film in which we find out that her husband actually lived in the secret basement in the home's bunker and that she'd sneak him meals when nathan is introduced we can see the lights turning on as he walks up the stairs and as he gets to the top of them they then turn off this is revealed as being carried out by ginsei who lives in the basement and operates them as a sign of respect now kiwi gets the job after his friend who works as a tutor for the parks says that he's going to be studying abroad again kiwi is parasitic in nature as he only latches onto the family because he uses someone else who passes him onto them kiwi's friend presents the kims with a mystical rock that is said to bring wealth to the family and it's clear that they believe it has somewhat of a power in it however later on when the kim's home floods we find the rock floating which indicates that it's hollow not only does this explain why kiwi was able to survive the blow to the head but it also hints to us the hollow promises that the rock carries with it upon making it to the house kiwi slowly brings his family across as they oust the current staff so that they can take their place the movie is filled with staircase imagery and bong joon-ho stated that he puts so many in the movie as they represent people traveling upwards through the class system stairs are pretty much featured in almost every scene in the film and it hammers home the idea that there's a divide between the upper and lower class people one of the most heartbreaking moments comes at the midsection when the family have to return home to their flooded house and we watch as they wander down the stairs after living the high life whilst the parks were away kitay grabs his wife's silver medal and silva is of course second place which gives a nod to how they're very much second-class citizens something that you might not have noticed is that the table within the park's home also looks like a staircase itself and we watch as it ascends from the bottom to the top when kiwi first goes to the house we can see that there are eight chairs at the dining table later on after the housekeeper and her husband are locked in the basement there are two added and this represents the 10 people making up the three families in the home the house is absolutely incredible and we learned that it was designed by a man named nam goong this is actually a nod to the character nam goong from snow psa another of bong joon ho's work nam goong designed the train in the film and he was played by sung kang ho who also plays keytake in this movie also apologies for the pronunciation in this video i know these aren't exactly how the names are said and i'm not doing the english speakers a favor right now by butchering them so badly but i promise i'm trying i'm just a terrible terrible youtuber now at one point in the film the daughter of the parks to high talks about how her brother the song is faking the way he acts so that his mother views him in a positive light this is brushed aside by kiwi who is of course doing the exact same thing he even instructs her to use the word pretend twice in her english exam and this happens at a point in which both he and his sister are pretending to be people they're not as for his sister it's through her we learn of the song's trauma namely how he saw a ghost when he was younger he was eating birthday cake when a strange man appeared in the house and this triggered a seizure at the end of the film we watch his birthday party once more in which the man returns and this earlier scene sets up why things happen the way that they do hilariously her mother chung suk says that she'd be a great con artist if she wanted to be but she very much is in this movie it's just clear they don't see themselves as doing anything illegal now the parks are played as the innocents in the film but they have their own prejudices and snubbery that sort of shows how they view the lower class people nathan can't stand the smell of the poor and he remarks that mr kim has an oda that's just like the underground this has its own subtext too as the underground is of course something that's beneath the surface and one must travel down some stairs in order to get there mrs park also isn't that innocent either and though she says she will pay kiwi more than they agreed to after his first session you can actually catch her skimming off the top and taking away some of the cash that she was initially going to give him i believe that this was actually the salary that she paid kiwi's friend but she realized that she could get away with paying him less so just decided to take it out after they return home from the camping trip she asks for ramdun to be made which is a combination of two meals typically loved by kids the meal is popular among super and rich but mrs park can't have a son eating what she views as common a food so she has sirloin steak added to it in order to ramp it up now keytake has some of my favorite scenes in the film and a lot of them are laced with subtext he becomes the family driver and the relationship that he has with the parks is very symbolic there is sort of a barrier between the front and seat of the car and he is pretty much driving and doing all of the work whilst they relax in the back there's even a point where mrs park is sat putting her feet up while ski take drives the car and she chats away to her friends whilst he has to sit in silence it's very much painting out the metaphor that the ones doing the work are silenced and they have to put all the effort into things whilst a wealthy elite can just relax and put their feet up they are very much living a completely different life to the poor and not subjected to the same issues that they are mrs park at one point says that the rain was a blessing as it meant that they could return home from their camping trip however it completely devastates the kim household and means that they have to sleep in a gym along with the rest of the poor there are some amazing accompanying shots such as the housekeeper vomiting in the basement toilet whilst the sewage vomits out of the toilet at the kim's mrs park also chooses clothes from her vast and expansive wardrobe whilst the poor have to fight over them in a gym after their homes are devastated we also catch kiwi texting the next day and his hand has an imprint on it due to holding the rock through the night now this reveal at the midpoint of the movie is pretty breakneck and the entire feeling of the film shifts after the doorbell rings this actually happens at the exact midpoint of the film and it was also exactly in the middle of the script we see the cut security camera and this also happens in the scene that comes at the midpoint of the movie however it also sets up the ending as it explains how ketake is able to escape into the house without being caught he very much takes the position of jensei who is one of my favorite characters for all the wrong reasons we learn that he's in hiding because he's in so much debt due to his company taiwanese castella in the movie there's a line about how kitake was a driver for them and there is potential that he was somewhat instrumental in his downfall either way it's such a creepy betrayal how we learn that he's been sending messages through morse code which key take also does at the end of the movie in order to relay something to his son now the tragedy is that these families could work together and live this life comfortably for a long time however the kims are very much people that will climb to the top of the stairs and kick other people down so the entire thing is blown open when jon say escapes he has spent years in the basement and upon exiting it we can see that his pupils are massively dilated he comes out stabs kyung and then chung-suk stabs him in retaliation however when it's clear that nathan doesn't care about their daughter or her death plus the the winching at his smell that triggers him he takes stabs him too he then retreats into the basement and we learn that he's lying low there indefinitely his son is arrested and along with his mother they're found guilty of fraud kiwi goes to look at the house and this shot is actually a reference to a painting by peter doyg called the architect's home in the ravine kiwi makes a plan to become rich so that he can buy the home and finally embrace his father as he leaves the basement just before this he puts the rock in some water and it doesn't float showing that this is indeed a fantasy his plan is to work hard and get rich after going to uni which if you're over the age of 30 then you know that's probably not as easy as it sounds now whilst people have gone back and forth over whether the scene will come true or not unfortunately if you stay for the credits then you'll know that it probably won't happen the song that plays over them is actually sung by choi wu shik who plays kiwi in the movie in it he pretty much sings the tale of what happens after the film namely how he gets a job doing back-breaking manual labor he says that it would take over 500 years to earn enough money to buy the house but it is quite upbeat and he thinks that he will do it whether it happens or not we don't know but it ends this amazing film and obviously i'd love to hear your thoughts on it in the comments below if you enjoyed the video then don't forget to subscribe and i hope you click the thumbs up too if you want some meals to watch then make sure you check out our breakdown of all the hidden details in squid game which will be linked on screen right now it's one of the best videos we've ever made so definitely go and watch it if you enjoyed this if not then thank you for checking this one out and sitting to the end i hope you have a good week and you take care of yourself i've been paul you've been the best i'll see you on the next one peace you

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Length: 13min 9sec (789 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 28 2021