Parasite Tried To Warn You

this video was sponsored by softshock VPN in 2019 parasite showed us what can happen when growing class tensions are ignored the movie's commentary shed relies on the disconnect between those living a life of luxury and those who directly or in most cases indirectly provide them with it the film's message seemingly resonated with audiences around the world but as we sit here in 2023 I'm watching the already insurmountable gap between the Haves and The have-nots Grow wider by the day you can't help but wonder if the movie's warning has fallen on deaf ears working in Lower Class People struggle worse every year while the billionaire Elite Class grows more and more indifferent to their struggle and they were in hand in it meanwhile the masses failed to hold those above them accountable instead we place them on a pedestal letting them dictate their culture as the media sucks up to them but the greatest truth the devil ever pulled was convinced in the world he didn't even exist and parachute explores what happens when a working-class family slowly realizes that the devil does exist and he sits in a peaceful house basking in the sunshine while they suffocate underground the film follows the Kim family who would win their best to survive in a semi-basement apartment in Seoul searching for free iPhone from surrounding businesses folding pizza boxes for less than minimum wage and inhaling toxic fumes in an efforts to exterminate stink bugs from their home but opportunity arises when the sun Ki Wu gets a visit from his friend Min yuk menyak gives kiwu with a Scholar Stone from his grandfather mythologized to bring material wealth to its Beholder during their catching up min-hyuk also informs kiwu of a job opportunity as he tells kiwu that he would lie for kiwu to take over from him as the tutor to the daughter of a rich family who pays well keyword then tells Min that he can't do the job because he doesn't attend University Mentos Hebrew that it doesn't matter because the matriarch of the household is extremely trusting that reminds kiwu that he's plenty qualified because he's taken or be failed the university entrance exam four times sakibu agrees and decides to recruit his sister Ki young to use her Photoshop and design skills to forge University documents kiwu wearing his best clothes and with four certifications in hand visits the household of the park family and is always to be hired as their daughter's tutor while there he learns the families also looking for an art teacher for their son da Wong so kiru gets an idea and uses this as as an opportunity to get a sister a job he likes the bugs and tells them his sister King you is actually a classmate of his named Jessica who is a qualified art therapist and in high demand the LIE works and the part family decides to hide Ki young under these forced pretenses eventually kiwu and kyung devised plans together Park Family chauffeur and also their housekeeper fired so that they can get their parents kitaik and shun Suk hide by the parks under false identities as well this all goes according to plan and the King family is now bringing in four separate paychecks from the parks and things are funny looking up for the Kims for the first time upward Mobility is within their grasp until it slips through their fingers in a spectacular and violent fashion later in the movie but before we get too much into the movie here we need to ask ourselves an important question why is this upward Mobility so difficult for these people [Music] and also why is it so hard to find parasites and streaming services he's even trying to make this video I kept getting messages from streaming platforms like Prime that it wasn't available to watch my location so I was stuck until I used surf shark the sponsor of today's video by using Surf Shop I could change my virtual location to Japan and finally watch the movie and that's why I want to tell you about a video sponsor surfshark you see surfsharkvpn keeps your 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activity logs so make sure to check out surfshark today and if you enter my promo code Moon reel you'll get an extra three months free as surfshark.deal forward slash moon real on the parasites the Kim family's only real chance at achieving a comfortable life is to deceive the rich into allowing them to get closer in almost every version of society the rich and Powerful tend to maintain a war between themselves and the poor in some cases even literally from the beginning the film illustrates these boundaries the most obvious of which is the dichotomy between the homes of the ridge versus the homes of the poor and it's the same when we're introduced we see that the Kim must have underground and once the insects with little natural light available to nourish them but when we see where the parks live it's high above everything else it's not only an on the nose depiction of their social status but it also maximizes the literal physical distance between the park household and the Kim household this just like in the real world allows for minimum interaction between people at the parks and people like the Kim and throughout the film this idea of poor people living underground is constantly reinforced by hiding a city's poverty underground the elites are able to carry on like poverty doesn't exist and enjoy their luxuries without guilt or self-reflection our cities and social practices are constructed to maintain this boundary on behalf of those who can afford to be shown to buy it luxury high rises with security exclusive clubs and services with unrealistic Financial barriers to entry hostile architecture built to antagonize the homeless while acting as a physical manifestation of the Divide between a ruling class and the poverty they create by exploiting those below them the rich have General line that the poor are not allowed to cross and so what happens when a poor person oversteps this arbitrary line while the film explores this fine Mr Park makes several explicit mentions of this line throughout the movie the only poor people the parks interact with are their employees and Mr Park makes it clear that if someone is perceived to have crossed the line they will get fired and replaced the line maintains the hierarchy between the Masters and the subordinates and throughout the movie there are several instances of subordinates the Kims crossing the line under the nose of their masters the parks meanwhile the parks disrespect the line as they please and even in some cases get a throw out of it because this line isn't meant to keep the powerful in check it's meant to maintain the hierarchy and keep the working class powerless but there are moments where the relationships between members of the park family and members of the Kim family are floating their head more specifically the interactions between Ki Young And The Parks King young is able to set boundaries of her own when choosing the family's son and she does so confidently Enough by the parks who pay her wishes we can see it makes the parks uncomfortable when she does this but they don't fire her in these moments she has power over them and later in the film we get a glimpse as to why she's able to have such power in a moment of drunken transparency Kiwa explains the Q you and Carries herself in a way that makes her blend in with the rich and powerful and confident and open disrespect of the line or drawing one of our own signals to the parks that she is indeed Elite and on their socioeconomic level which drives home the fact that this line both in the movie and in society is completely arbitrary the line doesn't really exist it's a myth meant to keep the poor in a subordinate position in our society and protect the sanctity of our photopian bubble constructed by the rich but when the poor start viewing the rich social equals they lose their power so why don't the working class ever do this why did we fall in line why do we respect the boundaries of the elite while our own boundaries are constantly being infringed upon it's because when you're born into this Western Postman Society the hierarchy is ingrained in you from birth condition to respect those who have immense wealth regardless of how they've acquired it or how they treat their fellow man while this inherently conflated with greatness but why exactly because for the Elites in our society to continue amassing wealth the working class must have incentive to continue working for them in our late stage of chronic capitalism any tangible and attainable incentives for the working class becomes scarce the reality is that in such a system the vast majority of the working class will struggle to achieve the financial natural dreams or even the most basic level of comfortability so what keeps them from giving up and Downing to us completely and what keeps us stuck in the position we find ourselves at simple answer is that for most of us we don't have safety nets even if we did have safety nets nothing would change because we're sold on a false idea of meritocracy see in our minds we're all just a few good Investments away and some hard work away from being an elite ourselves so by that logic it can be assumed that anyone who's Elite must have gotten there from grit determination and smart choices however in reality the majority of multi-billionaires and banking Elites is that they got there from their inheritance a handful of luck and mass exploitation or some combination of three despite this reality we tend to respect those in these positions according to the illusion of meritocracy they've uphold and see we just continue to compare amongst ourselves for the chance of one day being in their top position we can see this phenomena of cultural homogeneity on full display when we see how kiteake expresses his unwavering admiration of Mr Park despite badly knowing his personality or the story behind his wealth same with Gwen say when excuse to him later in the film both men have every reason to resent someone at Mr Park Mr Park is amassing his wealth of the backs of people like him as they live in putrid's squalor instead they look up to Mr Park as a godomon's man they salute him as he steps out of his luxury car and steps into his beautiful sunny home or stay live in damp rooms underground devoid of light feeding on his table scraps there's no resentment only respect and a yearning for his approval meanwhile Mr pucks can't even stand to be in the same vicinity as kaitake or go and say so throughout the movie he's constantly offended by the smell of Kai take despite remaining ignorant to his own hand and contributing to the society that forces millions of people like kaitek to live in a basement and for could I take the smell acts as an unshakable barrier to earning the acceptance of the ruling class he is spies to be a part of it tells us that unbeknownst to him his class is an unshakable part of him that the wealthy can detect from a mile away because of this kaiti and his family will always be seen as Outsiders and never achieve the upper Mobility that would allow them to thrive rather than survive and as ultimately The Continuous emphasis on a smell by the power box that eventually pushes kaitake to his breaking point because in the latter half of the movie The Kims quickly discovered their trans upward Mobility might be about to go up and smoke with one ring of the doorbell while the parks are out of town for a camping trip and the Kims are taking full advantage of the house the parks's former housekeeper Moon Guang appears on their doorstep with little choice but to the harenta chunstuck finds out that Moon Guang has been hiding her husband Gwen say in a secret bunker under the Park's house for the past four years in an effort to avoid violent debt collectors moonwang begs tune suck to let them stay even offering to pay Patron suck threatens to call the police and just as she does this ringwine discovers the rest of the Kim family and because she recognizes them as the remaining Park staff she realizes the scam becomes appearing and immediately blackmails them with a recording on her phone and as the two families battle to preserve the subordinate roles under the park family and in turn their means of survival they're all interrupted by an unexpected call to the house phone the callers from the parks who revealed their returning him early due to the storm and will be there in just minutes in this moment the Kims are able to overpower Moon Guang and gang say tying them up in a secret bunker right under the pox's noses and so after a night of hiding a morale sinking Eve drops the Kims finally escaped the pox's house and go back to their home only to discover complete Devastation their basement apartment is a rapidly flooded and while spending the night in a packed shelter they're caught upon by the parks to help them prepare for their son's birthday party the following day so despite feeling at their lowest the chems must try to put on their happy faces once again to serve the parks the parks remain ignorant of and indifferent to the problems the Kim's face and in light of overhearing a private conversation between Mr and Mrs Park from the night before the camps are noticing all the ways in which they inadvertently brushed aside and looked down upon kaiti in particular becomes fixated on how the parks react to his smell so once the party finally starts gangsay escapes from the bunker and attacks the Kims in front of everyone knocking out kiwu and killing Ki young during soccer's able to kill gaensei while kaitiak tries to save their daughter from bleeding out meanwhile Mr parkshire's little concern for the well-being of his employees but instead once again recoils at the smell of them which is the final straw for kaitiak who finally revolts and murders Mr park in front of an entire yard full of Elites in the aftermath he Mindy flees the scene never to be seen again the ending is representative of yet another way in which the working class are brainwashed by the elite they serve instead of going after the parks or even one of the other countless wealthy Elites at the party who are directly responsible for creating a system where his family is hopeless to live a comfortable life guangze instead targets the Kims because in modern societies the working class are led to believe they are limited resources to go around that the money tricking down from those at the top is only enough to feed so many so instead of banding together in times of hardship and changing the Status Quo where the elites hold resources to create artificial scarcity the masses are inclined to directly compete with one another for the scraps thus eating each other while their oppressors sit comfortably at a distance and the back half of parasite tells this Tale the chemist refuse to cooperate with moon Guang and guansi despite being offered the prospects of a mutually beneficial Arrangement they don't see the strength of partnership instead protect the Box's food and shelter as if it was their own fearing that if they share it might all come crumbling down however the film makes it obvious that the perks have plenty of resources to go around and this is further evidenced by the fact that Moon Guang and gansei have already been pulling off this arrangement for several years the Parks have so much available to them they don't even notice when something goes missing yet the Kim still feel the need to gatekeep afraid that if someone else is invited in they might lose their to the table and it's hard to blame them the Kims are a family without a safety net their lives have been defined by the floor falling out from underneath them they've all recently lost their jobs and are clinging onto the parks for survival and it can be difficult to find room in your heart to take care of others when you can barely take care of yourself the truth is that most people attempt to climb the ladder of a forced meritocracy simply can't afford to stop and pull someone else up with them because if they step and fall from the extra weight there's nothing to catch them plans so easily fall apart for the poor they must prioritize looking out for themselves over all else and the resulting lack of community serves the ruling class this emphasis on the fragility of plans is evident and parasite and perhaps the most cutting and direct commentary comes just before the climax of the movie when kaitier is lying next to kiwu in the shelter after they lost their home for someone like it who's been stuck in poverty his entire life whose plans to climb out have repeatedly Fallen apart leaving him to pick up the pieces it's far easier to resign than go through the cycle of fruitless efforts over and over it's a leak Outlook but it's reality for so many of us the truth is that almost everyone can never really think past their next paycheck and any risk taken to get out of this position can be catastrophic which is why true upward mobility in society is so rare and it's this line of thinking that we must keep in mind when we go to parasites ending one month after the events of the birthday party kiwi wakes up to find that he's been in a coma as he and his mother plead guilty to criminal charges and mourn the loss of his sister Ki young they wonder why his father katieak must be and we learn that he was never found after killing Mr Park in fleeing the scene eventually kiwu drawn back to the new former House of the parks discovers his father as hiding out in the still undiscovered secret bunker under the house and as the search for key take shows no signs of stopping we can assume he'll be locked away there until the day he dies in a prison of his own choosing eating scraps from the fridge of the new wealthy family that has taken the place of the parks but we get a glimmer of hope when kiwoo pledges to achieve the impossible earning enough money to buy the house and finally grown father freedom however we quickly find out that this hasn't actually matured us yet and is nothing more than a plan an optimistic viewer might suggest kiwi's determination and love for his family will give him the willpower and ability to see his plan come to fruition but nearly everything the film has told us so far about plans suggests that it won't the reality is the kiwu's dream will go unfulfilled just like the dreams of so many others in his possession and if there was any doubt the director of parasites actually confirmed this he says the final scene is intended to destroy all hopes that the audience had for better conditions for the Kim family and as the credits roll we hear kiru's Voice singing a song he sings about how long and tirelessly he must work and according to the director this song was originally titled 564 years which is a realistic estimation of how much time it would take hewoo to earn the money to buy the Puck's house making it an Impossible Dream for kiwoo or even his grandchildren to achieve the truth is that kiwu will probably be exploited for his labor by the wealthy until the day he dies so this begs the question Who are the the real parasites in the film The kimsa parasites in the most obvious sense they live underground and they wiggle their way into the lives of the parks leeching off of their welfare survival and taking livelihood from the existing staff for themselves and at face value the parks seem like victims that generally kind to the Kims and do nothing explicits in the movie to deserve their fate however when we look a letter deeper you could say the parks were parasites in their own right the parks experienced none of the hardship that besets lower class families and they pay no attention to the plight of the Kims or the staff before them yet the parks rely completely on the labor of these people as maintain and enjoy a lifestyle of luxury we discover that every single one of the staff lives in squalor not being paid enough by the parks to actually afford decent living conditions and when those living conditions result in their staff having an unpleasant smell the parks literally turn their noses up unable to cope with the physical manifestation of their own exploitation so which parasite is worse the star of ones who seek the bare minimum of nutrients from an overnourished host so it can survive or the gluttonous ones who drain an already limping to the brink of death so it never has to feel uncomfortable and remember to check out surfsharkvpn today by using the link in the description below

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Length: 17min 24sec (1044 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 18 2023